Beekeeper
Employer
33860 ARTHUR RD.
WINCHESTER, CA 92596
United States
Job description
Beekeeping: Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of commercial beekeeping. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feeding and medicate bees for diseases and pests. Maintain hives in healthy state. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Run queen breeding yard and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. Ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Harmonize bees with their natural cycle. Cap and handle combs. Remove wax from honey. Remove honey from hives. Extract honey. Workers must be familiar with hive tools and smoker. Worker will assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. Add or remove boxes to and from beehives as necessary. Build, rebuild, paint, and clean boxes for beehives. General yard work around facilities. Worker will drive himself to/from housing, worksite, and grocery store. Work is performed outdoors and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, and cold. Workers should come prepared wearing appropriate clothing and footwear for the environmental and working conditions described. Cell phone can only be used during breaks, emergencies, and communicating with supervisor
Special Requirements
Must be 18 years or older. The company may conduct criminal background checks pre-hire at the employer's expense. Valid driver's license Class D is required and will be paid by the employer. Three (3) months experience with bees. All tools, supplies, equipment and special protective clothing such as veils, gloves, and suits will be provided at no cost to the workers. Must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist) push, pull, reach and lift. Lifting requirement 5-40 lbs. Work is performed outdoors and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, and cold.