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Work site environment
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Outdoors
- Noisy
- All weather conditions
Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
Tasks
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
- Work with honey bees
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
- Maintain work records and logs
- Perform general farm duties
- Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
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.
- Oversee the honey extraction
- Treat bees with antibiotics
- Automated honey extractor
- Apiary management
- Harvesting honey
- Honey farm
Equipment and machinery experience
- Farm truck
- Forklift
- Hand tools
Transportation/travel information
- Public transportation is not available
- Valid driver's licence
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
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
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner
Screening questions
- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
- Are you currently a student?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Do you live near the job location?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- What is your current field of study?
- What is your current level of study?
Government programs
- Recognized employer
Financial benefits
- Bonus
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site housing options
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