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Do you share our passion for helping humans use the ocean for good?
Join the Kelson Marine Team
Kelson Marine is growing! If you're an exceptional team player with advanced engineering skills, check out our current openings.
At Kelson Marine, our core value is treating people how we’d like to be treated. For our clients, we tell it how it is, we get things done on time, and we always listen. We share knowledge with our teammates eagerly and we work earnestly and deliberately to solve complex problems with autonomy and camaraderie. We call this “extreme teamwork.”
If you share our passion for maximizing the ocean’s potential, we want to hear from you.
Contact us with any questions or submit an application to: [email protected]
Job Opportunity: Business Manager
Kelson Marine Co. is hiring a full-time Business Manager. Exceptional candidates with appropriate experience will be considered for a COO role. This individual will run Kelson’s non-technical operations including financial management, administration, and optimizing employee experience. An ability to work effectively with teammates is essential.
Location
Kelson is headquartered on the Portland Fish Pier in Portland, Maine, USA. Our working model is built around extreme teamwork. Therefore, the majority of working hours are in the office. But for the rest, employees decide when and where they work best.
Skills
Required:
Experience in small business operations
- Financial
- Accounting
- Accounts payable / receivable
- Financial reporting and cash-flow forecasting
- Accounting software (Xero, Quickbooks, etc.)
- Human Resources
- Onboarding
- Payroll
- Hiring
- Team building
- HR Software (Gusto, etc.)
- Administration
- State compliance
- Insurance management
- Vendor relations
- IT: Data management, communications and project management platforms, and reporting systems
Desired:
- Experience in Blue Economy industries (Ocean renewable energy, aquaculture, fishing, ocean sensing, etc.)
- Experience in federal contracting
- Experience in commercial and federal bid and proposal processes
Exceptional candidates with strong experience contributing to the sustainable growth of small businesses will be considered for a Chief Operating Officer role. This role would further entail:
- Business strategy
- Team leading and recruiting
- Market identification and entry
- Marketing and business development
- IP management
- Creation and management of spin-off entities
What We Offer
- Salary, based on experience and qualifications,
- $70,000 - $90,000 for Business Manager, or
- $90,000 - $120,000 for Chief Operating Officer
PLUS
- Profit-sharing bonus program.
- Health insurance reimbursement.
- Four (4) weeks paid family and medical leave.
- 21 days paid time off per year.
- Flexible schedule and hybrid work model in Portland, Maine.
- A small team environment where every member impacts the future of the company.
Who We Are
At Kelson Marine, we like to solve hard problems in ocean engineering. We partner with clients—businesses, federal agencies, and universities—to solve the challenges of producing food and energy in the unrelenting ocean. Born on New England’s working waterfront, Kelson combines advanced engineering tools and firsthand experience on the sea to deliver innovative and reliable systems.
Kelson’s core value is to treat people how you’d like to be treated. For our clients, we tell it how it is, we get things done on time, and we always listen. For our teammates, we share knowledge eagerly, we work earnestly for each other’s success, and we work toward our collective goals with autonomy and camaraderie.
How to Apply
Email [email protected]. Include the following:
- Cover letter
- Resume