Position Description

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
POSITION DESCRIPTION FOR JOB POSTING
Position Number: 00091571	Description Activated On: 8/26/2025 12:10:59 PM

Position Purpose: Describe the primary purpose of this position and how it contributes to the organization’s objectives. Example: Provides clerical and office support within the Division to ensure its operations are conducted efficiently and effectively.

The job of the Fish and Boat Commission’s Northern Regional Fish Production Manager is to use the available resources, including about 55 full time staff and approximately 4 million dollar budget, to support optimum fishing opportunities to the angling public through production and stocking fish from state fish hatcheries, exchanges of fish with other governmental agencies, and contracted producers while protecting the environment and complying with applicable laws, regulations and policies.

Description of Duties: Describe in detail the duties and responsibilities assigned to this position. Descriptions should include the major end result of the task. Example: Types correspondence, reports, and other various documents from handwritten drafts for review and signature of the supervisor.

This position involves managerial and advanced technical work in planning and directing fish production and distribution programs for a region of state fish hatcheries operated by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. The function of this position is to plan, direct, and coordinate fish production, fish distribution and infrastructure maintenance and improvement activities in the Commonwealth’s state fish hatcheries north of Interstate Route 80 including, Fairview, Linesville, Corry, Oswayo, Tionesta, and Pleasant Mount. The goal is to support the missions of Fisheries Management, Fisheries Bureau, Hatcheries Bureau and Fish and Boat Commission through annual fish production and fish distribution from these facilities.

The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager has direct line supervisory authority and administrative responsibility for the managers of seven state fish hatcheries and their associated facilities and staff. The fundamental responsibility of this position is the planning, budgeting, assigning responsibilities, monitoring and reporting on the production of numbers, sizes, and species as assigned by the Director of Fish Production and the distribution of those fish in accord with established schedules, procedures, and destinations. The production and distribution of fish and operation of state fish hatcheries is be accomplished in the most efficient/cost effective manner feasible with a highly skilled, well-trained staff as well as the development and application of advances in fish culture and hatchery waste management.

An equally important function of this position is to assure that the Northern Regional state fish hatcheries are operated in an optimum manner to minimize adverse environmental effects from hatchery effluents and loss of fish within the hatchery. The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager is responsible for assuring that State Fish Hatchery Managers fully understand their obligations within the NPDES permits and other agreements, regulations, laws, policies and standard procedures regarding the operations of fish production facilities including FDA controls on the use of drugs and chemicals on cultured fish. The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager is responsible implementing policy and operation guidance of the Commission’s fish production and distribution effort including associated environmental protection. This involves assuring that annual fish production and waste management objectives are planned and achieved. The organization units under the Northern Regional Fish Production Manager’s supervision operate within approved budgets. The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager has direct budgetary control and personnel direction/administration responsibility for these work units in the state fish hatchery system north of Interstate Route 80.

The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager serves as an agency administrative and technical expert regarding warm/cool water fish propagation and distribution and advises the Director of Hatcheries regarding the production planning, implementation and distribution of warm/cool water fishes from the state fish hatchery system. As a manager and advanced technical expert for fish production, fish distribution and state fish hatcheries will represent the agency and fish production at meetings with external organizations, including other government agencies, the PA Aquaculture Association, technical and professional group conferences and sportsmen’s groups. The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager will represent the Fish Production interests of the Bureau of Hatcheries in planning sessions, hatchery design discussions, internal contract development and reviews, job conferences or any other meetings involving design, construction, repair or modifications of any aspect of state fish hatcheries. This manager will provide guidance for the development of new or improved fish culture techniques specializing in warm/cool water fish culture.

The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager prepares and administers grants, contracts and purchasing documents. Including the use of SAP for generating purchase requests, tracking the progression of purchasing documents and approving final payments. Assigned to the position of Northern Regional Fish Production Manager are about 25 SAP roles for which the employee is expected to function effectively.

The Northern Fish Production Manager is expected to meet biweekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting deadlines as established by the Director of Fish Production, the Bureau or the Commission. The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager develops performance standards/expectations for all employees directly supervised and conducts performance evaluation ratings of those employees as well as provides reviewer comments on employee performance reviews conducted by immediate subordinates. The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager is responsible for establishing fish food needs for state fish hatcheries north of Interstate Route 80 and providing them to the Director of Fish Production. The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager is responsible to maintain a working knowledge of the Master Agreements and with Council 13 AFSCME, side agreements, past practices, and protocols for addressing employee and management disputes and grievances. The Northern Regional Fish Production Managers is responsible to assure that State Fish Hatchery Managers understand their obligations in working in a fair and unbiased manner with all employees including those organized by AFSCME and within the context of the Master Agreement, side agreements and past practices.

The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager is responsible for implementing fish production employee hiring, training, deployment, professional development, performance reviews, and discipline under the guidance of the Director of Fish Production. Hiring follows the general principal of identifying and offering vacant positions the most qualified candidate; and is implemented through close coordination with Human Resources through the Personnel Action Request process. The Northern Regional Fish Production Manager supports viable approaches to establishing lists of well-qualified equally eligible candidates for vacancies including Civil Service test development and testing. The Regional Manager assures that a standard candidate interview process is used that includes a team rating of each candidate. A training and orientation program will be developed and implemented for newly hired employee. A training program is used for professional development of Fish Culturists and leadership and supervisory development training, including opportunities for out-of-class assignments at supervisory and management levels, for staff that have qualified for consideration for vacancies through Civil Service testing for State Fish Hatchery Managers and State Fish Hatchery Foreman. Employee positions descriptions are maintained and updated as necessary, but not less often than every three years. Annual Employee Performance Reviews, conducted each year prior to the end of January, will be based on annual Employee Performance Expectations established each year at the time of the annual review. Employee discipline, based on progressive discipline procedures, utilized incident investigations, witness statement, and documentation of unsatisfactory performance or conduct of operations. Performs other duties as assigned.

Decision Making: Describe the types of decisions made by the incumbent of this position and the types of decisions referred to others. Identify the problems or issues that can be resolved at the level of this position, versus those that must be referred to the supervisor. Example: In response to a customer inquiry, this work involves researching the status of an activity and preparing a formal response for the supervisor’s signature.

Work is performed with independence in deciding production goals for northern hatcheries and implementation of those goals. Recommends budgets for northern hatcheries to supervisor. Contacts other state agencies to arrange for fish/egg trades and then fish health approval. Makes stocking assignments for all warm/cool water species in PA. Work involving Refers decisions that will affect more than the Northern hatcheries or policy to the Director.

Requirements Profile: Identify any specific experience or requirements, such as a licensure, registration, or certification, which may be necessary to perform the functions of the position. Position-specific requirements should be consistent with a Special Requirement or other criteria identified in the classification specification covering this position. Example: Experience using Java; Professional Engineer License

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Licenses, registrations, or certifications:

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Essential Functions: Provide a list of essential functions for this position. Example: Transports boxes weighing up to 60 pounds.

1.	Plans and organizes complex statewide production expectations
2.	Effectively communicates both orally and in writing
3.	Performs the full range of supervisory duties.
4.	Establishes and maintains harmonious and effective working relationships with staff.
5.	Negotiates equitable fish and fish egg exchanges with other government agencies.
6.	Provide professional development and training for staff including supervisory, leadership, management, and administrative skills and experience.
7.	Efficiently uses electronic technology including FAX, telephone, cell phone, e-mail, computer software Microsoft Word Excel, Outlook, and SAP.
8.	Monitor and maintain hatchery conditions and equipment.
9.	Interact well with the general public and other employees to work as a team.
10.	Operate a boat when trapnetting is required.