Oyster Blog

Hama Hama Oyster Company is looking for a Seasonal Plant Production Worker. Plant production workers keep our customers happy and our product fresh. They rinse, sort, and bag oysters and clams for sale to chefs and online store customers; box up orders for shipment; and keep our facility clean and tidy. As the last people to handle the product before we seal the box and ship it out, they are the last line of our quality control, tasked with ensuring that the product we sell is cold, fresh, clean, consistently sized, and properly counted. They care about customer experience, love...

Hama Hama is looking for someone (or some people!) to join our Farm Store Crew. Farm Store staff help ensure that we maintain a clean, well-stocked store staffed by well-informed, friendly sales people. Tasks involve ringing up sales, customer service, restocking, serving soups and making grilled cheese sandwiches, dishwashing, and cleaning. This is a great starting point for someone interested in a career in retail or in customer service: the Farm Store is the mothership of all of our customer-facing operations, from our oyster saloon to our oyster classes. Ideal candidates will have excellent customer service and organizational skills, be...

Compared to livestock agriculture, shellfish farming can look simple. There's nothing to feed morning and night, nothing to water, and no costly vet calls. As you may have heard us say before, all you need to grow delicious shellfish is sunlight and seawater. Despite the obvious attractions of producing protein with very few inputs, shellfish require a farmer’s touch to cultivate well. We practice rotational grazing, of a sort, because we move seed between various cages and bags as it grows to ensure it has space to grow and access food. We do a ton of gear maintenance, try to...

Hama Hama is looking for a Barge Deckhand. As part of the Oyster Farm's water operations crew, the deckhand works under the day-to-day direction of the Water Operations Lead.  These operations are scheduled around and contingent on working the high tide, where activities consist of the harvest and transport of seed and market ready product to and from our farms and processing houses. This position works with the high tide which means early mornings (~ 3am)  in the summer and a more consistent day time schedule in the winter. This individual will be asked to clean gear, totes, and the...

Hama Hama is looking for a Plant Operations Lead. This position is the point person for our fulfillment and delivery teams, and keeps our wholesale food production facility in Lilliwaup running smoothly and safely. They direct the daily workflow, run meetings, and manage staff. Shipping / receiving, sanitation, and compliance all fall under their wheelhouse. Every day is a slightly different adventure, which makes this a dynamic position. Successful candidates will have excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills, and be tech savvy but also competent on a forklift. About Hama Hama - Family owned and operated for six generations, we’re...