Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
1911 36th Ave East
Palmetto, FL 34221
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 commercials beekeeping. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feed and medicate the bees for diseases and pests. Maintain hives in healthy state. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Build, rebuild, pain, and clean boxes for beehives. Add or remove boxes to and from beehives as necessary. 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 honey bee 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. All special protective clothing such as veils, gloves, and suits will be provided to the workers. 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. General yard work around facilities. Workers with driver's license may be asked to drive workers to/from housing, worksites, and grocery store.
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 is required to operate company vehicles. All tools, supplies, and equipment 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. Lifting requirement 5-40 lbs. Workers may be offered more than the standard hours of work in a single workday. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Hours of work may increase/decrease depending on crop yield and/or weather and can occur at anytime throughout the season. The majority of the workday is spent on one's feet and outdoors. 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.