apiary technician

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

3 years to less than 5 years

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment

• Outdoors
• Hot
• All weather conditions
• Dirty

Work setting

• Rural area
• Staff accommodation available

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
• Work with honey bees
• Harvest crops
• Maintain quality control and production records
• Perform general farm duties
• Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system

Experience and specialization

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.
• Manage the overall operations of a bee farm
• Oversee the honey extraction
• Treat bees with antibiotics
• Automated honey extractor
• Apiary management
• Harvesting honey
• Honey farm

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• 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
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Excellent oral communication
• Team player
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Quick learner

Benefits

Other benefits

• On-site housing options

Employment groups

This employer promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including those self-identifying as a member of these groups:

Support for newcomers and refugees

• Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition

Support for youths

• Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth

Support for Indigenous people

• Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers

Supports for visible minorities

• Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)

Employment groups - Help

Membership in a group is not a job requirement. All interested applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

This employer is committed to providing all job applicants with equal employment opportunities, and promoting inclusion. If you self-identify as a member of any employment group, you are encouraged to indicate it in your application.

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