Beekeeper

Job description

Employees will keep healthy beehives. This will include feeding/treating them as needed. Assembling beehives. Insert honeycomb of bees into beehive. Set hives in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen. Scrape out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds and mice. Destroy superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division or colony by swarming. Will need to replace queen bees and divide colonies when necessary and replace combs. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extracts honey with proper tools/equipment. Will also help produce queen bees. There may be some heavy lifting when extracting the honey from the hives (approximately 40lbs) . There is also constant bending over to work on the treatment/feeding of the bees. May work longer hours during warm months. Will work outdoors in variable weather conditions. May be required to work at night, weekends and holidays. The employer abides by California Order No. 14-2001. Must wear protective gear such as veil, gloves and suit (provided by employer). Must also use bee smoker and other hive tools to access the hive (provided by employer).

Rate of pay: $16.05 per hr., if there ever is overtime work required, the employee will receive payment of $24.07/hour in CA

Special Requirements

Employees must know how to make queen bees. Employees should have some knowledge on how to use Forklift/Swinger to load and unload bees on flatbed trucks, however if not employer will train.

Employees will be working with our Forklift (Swinger) that is Farm Equipment that is used to move the hives around, load and unload from trucks.

Employees engaged in driving activities will be asked to obtain a drivers license (DL/CDL). The DL/CDL is not a pre-hire job requirement. No job applicant will be denied an employment opportunity due to a lack of a DL/CDL at the time of application and/or hiring. Once hired, employer will assist employee in getting a divers license (DL/CDL). Employer will be responsible for the cost associated with the employees obtaining their drivers license.