Beekeeper

Job description

Workers will be performing all activities related to beekeeping.

- They must have knowledge of all bees stages and how to feed and treat them.
-They will make splits.
-Check for weak hives and replace queens.
- Moves beehives weighing around 75 pounds.
- Drive the trucks to the bee locations and put empty boxes on the hives.
-Take the honey off the beehives and extract the honey.
-Barrel the honey into drums.
-Move the beehives with the forklifts and trucks to a stockpile yard at the end of the season.
- Worker needs to have at least three months of experience on the job.
- Workers need to be able to drive.

Special Requirements

Training working with bees is needed for this job. Workers need to have at least 3 months training on how to feed and treat bees, how to make splits and check for queens to replace them if necessary and, harvesting honey.