beekeeping technician
Education:
No degree, certificate or diploma.
Work site environment:
- Outdoors.
- Dusty.
- Hot.
- Odours.
- All weather conditions.
- Dirty.
Work setting:
Rural area.
Tasks:
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Harvest crops.
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry.
Apiary and honey harvesting experience:
- Detect bee diseases .
- Harvest, extract and package honey and beeswax.
- Treat bees with antibiotics .
- Automated honey extractor.
- Harvesting honey.
- Honey farm.
Equipment and machinery experience:
- Farm truck.
- Forklift.
Transportation/travel information:
- Own transportation.
- 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.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
Personal suitability:
- Organized.
- Team player.
- Flexibility.
- Judgement.
- Reliability.
Screening questions:
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
Experience:
2 years to less than 3 years.
Employment terms options:
- Morning.
- Day.
- Weekend.