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Work setting
- Rural area
Tasks
- Handling animals
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
- Treat livestock health issues
- Work with honey bees
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- 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.
- Treat bees with antibiotics
- Automated honey extractor
- Apiary management
- Harvesting honey
- Honey farm
Equipment and machinery experience
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Haying equipment
- Loader
- Skidsteer
- Forklift
Area of specialization
- Beef cattle
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- 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
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Reliability
- Quick learner
Screening questions
- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
Employment terms options
- Day
- Overtime required