apiary manager

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience

5 years or more

On site

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

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Work site environment

• Other miscellaneous animal farming
• Hot
• Outdoors
• Livestock

Work setting

• Rural area

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system
• Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
• Monitoring animal health
• Work with honey bees
• Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
• Perform general farm duties

Supervision

• 5-10 people

Experience and specialization

Apiary and honey harvesting experience

• Apiary management
• Automated honey extractor
• Detect bee diseases
• Extract honey manually
• Manage bee colonies for the production of honey and pollination purposes.
• Treat bees with antibiotics
• Harvesting honey
• Honey farm

Equipment and machinery experience

• Truck

Additional information

Security and safety

• Driver's validity licence check

Transportation/travel information

• Drive manual transmission vehicle
• Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Attention to detail
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Handling heavy loads
• Large workload
• Manual dexterity
• Physically demanding
• Standing for extended periods
• Work under pressure

Personal suitability

• Initiative
• Judgement
• Organized
• Team player

Benefits

Financial benefits

• Bonus