Fisheries Specialist

• The Fisheries Liaison (FL) is a critical and crucial position and component for project development and reputation with the commercial and recreational fishing communities.
• Marine operations associated with project developments require close communications, engagement, and coordination with the fishing communities.
• FL conducts a wide and diverse range of responsibilities and heavily supports the Permitting, Technical and Community Affairs teams.

Responsibilities

• Primary point of contact between the Project and fishing community
• Solicit, recruit and support offshore fishing representatives and scout boats
• Solicit, recruit and support fishing industry representatives
• Support offshore contractors and vessels with fisheries and marine logistics and coordination
• Attend offshore wind industry meetings, fisheries industry forums, councils and seminars
• Participate in outreach events and inform stakeholders of the company projects (independent and group consultations, port visits, phone calls, texts and email)
• Joint Monthly Port hours in collaboration with other developer FLs
• Develop and disseminate notices, newsletters and updates
• Maintain fisheries contacts and outreach Mail Chimp database
• Maintain 400+ fisheries contact database (stakeholders, Local, State and Federel GOV, academia and public) via Constant Contact software
• Planning and compliance with the company Fisheries Communication Plan
• Established and support Fisheries and Benthic Monitoring Surveys
• Review and Support of the company Projects’ plans and technical documents
• Established and support of the company Gear Claims Application
• Establish and support with Empire Wind Compensation Plan
• Support with the Regional Compensation Fund
• Fisheries procurement and supplier invoicing support via SAP software
• Support with vessel inspections and vetting with fishing vessels supporting Projects.
• Maintain Automatic Identification System (AIS) on project websites
• Maintain LNM on websites
• Maintain positive and friendly relations with the commercial fishing industry and marine fisheries agencies/institutions/organizations