About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Outdoors. At heights. Dusty. Hot. Noisy. Odours. Work setting: Rural area. Staff accommodation available.
Tasks
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Work with honey bees.
- Harvest crops.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers.
- Maintain work records and logs.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Write daily basic progress reports.
- Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : First Aid Certificate.
- Apiary and honey harvesting experience: Detect bee diseases . Extract honey manually.
- Harvest, extract and package honey and beeswax.
- Manage bee colonies for the production of honey and pollination purposes. . Oversee the honey extraction.
- Treat bees with antibiotics . Automated honey extractor.
- Apiary management.
- Harvesting honey.
- Honey farm.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Farm truck.
- Forklift.
- Security and safety: Driving record check (abstract).
- Transportation/travel information: Public transportation is not available.
- Own transportation.
- Valid driver's licence.
- Drive manual transmission vehicle.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Ability to work independently.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Tight deadlines.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Attention to detail.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Ability to distinguish between colours.
- Sitting.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Own tools/equipment: Steel-toed safety boots.
- Personal suitability: Organized.
- Team player.
- Flexibility.
- Judgement.
- Reliability.
- Screening questions: Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Government programs: Recognized employer.
- Employment terms options: Evening.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Experience: Experience an asset.
- Employment terms options: Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.
- Overtime available.
- Other benefits: Free parking available.
- On-site housing options.
- Parking available.