Farmworkers, Farm & Ranch Animals

Work description

Beekeeper Farm Worker possible duties: Workers will perform many beekeeping tasks while on the job. In the spring, workers will divide colonies(hives) to make starter colonies(hives) and to increase overall number of colonies(hives) for optimum honey production. This involves assembling wooden and/or plastic bee boxes, inserting frames into these boxes, shaking boxes to remove bees, scooping bees with hand-held container, pouring bees into empty (frame only) boxes, loading/unloading trucks with forklift (if pallets) or hand-stacking empty boxes on truck bed, feeding hives, checking/evaluating colonies(hives) for disease, evaluating overall health of colonies(hives), moving the bees to honey production locations, picking up/carrying/hand-stacking dead colonies(hives/boxes). Workers will be lifting, pushing, pulling, loading/unloading, carrying objects up to 50 lbs; may climb, balance, sit, stoop, bend, squat, clean equipment and grounds area. Workers will also harvest honey by forcing bees from boxes using smoker and physically lifting boxes of honey for transport to extraction facility on company owned vehicle. Workers will operate extraction equipment at the necessary time under supervision of Employer/Steven Coy. When weather is not conducive to work in the bee yards, there is shop work to do in the form of maintenance/repair of vehicles, equipment, bee boxes, pallets, box lids, barreling of honey, cleaning/labeling/stacking barrels, and possibly other related beekeeper farm worker activities as per SOC/OES 45- 2093 (onetonline.org). Employer operates a drug/Alcohol/Tobacco free work place. Must speak and understand English.