apiary technician
13 hours ago
Fort Macleod, Canada
Poelman Apiaries Ltd.
Full time
- Durée de l'emploi: Saisonnier
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 45 to 60 hours per week
- Education:
- Expérience:
- Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
- Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Hot
- All weather conditions
- Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
- Tasks
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
- Work with honey bees
- Harvest crops
- Perform general farm duties
- Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system
- 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
- 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
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Personal suitability
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Screening questions
- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Employment terms options
- Evening
- Experience
- 3 years to less than 5 years
- Employment terms options
- Night
- Day
- Weekend
- Other benefits
- On-site housing options
