Technical Assistance

The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) and funded by federal and state government. AWI focuses on polar and marine research in a variety of disciplines such as biology, oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geophysics thus allowing multidisciplinary approaches to scientific goals.
- Technical Assistance (M/F/d) Marine Aquaculture in the Open Ocean (OLAMUR)

**Background**
Global food security, human health and well-being are at serious jeopardy as marine resource production can no longer be sustained by ecosystems and natural fisheries production only. Broad evidence supports the potential of low trophic aquatic food to reduce food and nutrition insecurity in a changing climate, delivering essential ecosystem services and enabling achieving UN SDGs. Expansion of low trophic aquaculture (LTA) for increasing seafood production are faced with opportunities in unexploited regions and environments and maximizing benefits of marine space by considering low impact multi-use (MU) of space such as combining wind farm areas and integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA). The main objective of OLAMUR is to bring together MU-LTA related key sectors, to demonstrate sustainable commercial solutions for both the North and the Baltic Sea. OLAMUR will focus on three pilots (Germany, Denmark, and Estonia) that will serve as testing and demonstration sites. Here, we focus on an aquaculture-offshore wind farm-multi-use-scenario in the German Bight next to Helgoland, to farm seaweed and bivalves in the open ocean.

You will be involved in the design, planning, construction and sampling of the offshore test sites.

**Tasks**
- Planing of an offshore seaweed and bivalve plan
- Monitoring of the farm
- O&M of the farm

**Requirements**:

- BTA in biology, ecology, or related disciplines
- Experience in aquatic lab work
- Experience in aquaculture
- Experience in data processing and backups
- Boat licence (Sportbootführerschein „See“)
- Experience in the development and design of offshore structures
- Good English language skills written and spoken
- Good standard computer software skills (MS-Office-products)
- Interest and capacity for teamwork, international, inter
- and transdisciplinary collaboration as well as the support of PhD-students, students and interns
- Willingness and capability to participate in seagoing expeditions
- Willingness and capability to stay on Helgoland for a longer period

**Further Information**

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This is a part-time position (29,25 h), limited until 31.12.2026. The salary will be paid in accordance with the Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federation (Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes, TVöD Bund), up to salary level
**9a**. The place of employment will be
**Bremerhaven**.

**The AWI is characterised by**
- our scientific success - excellent research
- collaboration and cooperation - intra-institute, national and international, interdisciplinary
- opportunities to develop - on the job and towards other positions
- an international environment - everyday contacts with people from all over the world
- flexible working hours
- Health promotion and company fitness with qualitrain
- support services and a culture of reconciling work and family
- Occupational pension provision (VBL)
- Jobticket

Applicants with disabilities will be given preference when equal qualifications are present.
The AWI fosters the compatibility of work and family in various ways and has received a number of awards as a result of this engagement.

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