About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Fruit and vegetable combination farming. Other miscellaneous animal farming. Other miscellaneous crop farming. Outdoors. Hot. Noisy. Wet/damp. All weather conditions. Dirty. Work setting: Rural area.
Tasks
- Clear fields of wood and stones.
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market..
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment.
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops.
- Weeding.
- Harvest crops.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Maintain work records and logs.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market.
- Work with honey bees.
- Apiary and honey harvesting experience: Harvesting honey.
- Automated honey extractor.
- Honey farm.
- Treat bees with antibiotics . Manage the overall operations of a bee farm.
- Manage bee colonies for the production of honey and pollination purposes. . Harvest, extract and package honey and beeswax.
- Extract honey manually.
- Detect bee diseases . Type of crops: Raspberries.
- Strawberries.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Automated irrigation system.
- Tractor.
- Farm truck.
- Loader.
- Forklift.
- Hand tools.
- 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.
- Large workload.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Ability to distinguish between colours.
- Sound discrimination.
- Sitting.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Personal suitability: Excellent oral communication.
- Organized.
- Team player.
- Flexibility.
- Reliability.
- Quick learner.
- Screening questions: Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Morning.
- Night.
- On call.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.
- Overtime available.
- Other benefits: Free parking available.
- Parking available.