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General Beekeeping, including apiary maintenance, constructing equipment and fences, operating machinery, gauging hive strength, feeding bees, medicating bees, building nucs, re-queening hives, supering, honey house maintenance and preparation of equipment for extracting honey, heavy lifting collecting honey, extracting honey, relocating bees, transporting honey and hives using trucks and trailers, preparing bees for winter including wrapping bees.
Training Will Be Provided
Essential Skills
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Valid driver's licence
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not applicable
Specific Skills
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Harvest crops
- Apiary Work
Type of Equipment
- Tractor
- Loader
- Farm truck
Type of Farm Operations
- Beekeeping
Work Location Information
- Staff accommodation available
- Rural community
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Type of Automated Systems Experience
- Automated honey extractor
Work Site Environment
- Outdoors