Apiary Technician - Rapid City, Canada - LOE-BEE HONEY FARMS LTD
LOE-BEE HONEY FARMS LTD
Rapid City, Canada
Verified Company
1 week ago
Description
Education:
No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
Work site environment:
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting:
- Staff accommodation provided
- Rural area
Tasks:
- Monitoring animal health
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Apiary work
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
Apiary and honey harvesting experience:
- Apiary management
- Detection and treatment of bee diseases
- Harvesting honey
- Honey bees
- Honey farm
- Knowledge of bee biology
- Wax stamping beehives
Automated systems experience:
- Automated honey extractor
Transportation/travel information:
- Vehicle supplied by employer
- Willing to travel regularly
- Willing to travel for extended periods
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fastpaced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Handeye coordination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability:
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
Screening questions:
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Work Term: Seasonal
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 60 hours per week
