Beekeeper Farm Worker
Employer
358 Highway 13 - This is the primary work site.
Wiggins, MS 39577
United States
Job 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. All tools needed for work will be provided by Coy Bee Company, LLC, at no cost to workers. This includes hive tool, smokers, bee suits, small miscellaneous tools for maintenance/assembly of boxes. 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). Bee colonies will be transported from primary work site(shop) to bee yards(fields) for honey production and colony boxes must be removed/added throughout the season. During the spring and summer, workers will travel from primary work site(shop) each day to bee yards(fields) located within the southern MS counties of Forrest, Jones, Stone, George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, and Pearl River in company owned/provided vehicles. During late summer/early fall, workers will move bees to Noxubee and Lowndes counties in east central MS. Employer will provide all transportation to and from bee yards and provide overnight lodging when traveling to east central MS at no cost to workers. Employer will provide each worker with three meals a day at no cost to workers OR Employer will provide free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities to workers that will enable workers to prepare their own meals. Workers will repeat the spring/summer process in late summer/early fall including moving colonies, removing/adding boxes when needed for honey production, harvesting honey, and extracting honey. Must have a minimum of six months beekeeping experience.
Transportation of Colonies(Hives) Clarified: Coy Bee Company, LLC, does not engage in pollination or honey production outside the state of Mississippi. Approximately 80 percent of the annual crop is produced in southern Mississippi in the counties of Forrest, Jones, Stone, George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and Pearl River. Workers will be in this location from January through June each year. The nature of beekeeping requires daily travel of distances up to 55 miles from primary work site. Each day begins and ends at primary work site(shop). All transportation to/from bee yards(fields) each day is provided at no cost to workers by Employer owned work trucks: 1) 2015 Ford F550, 2) 2014 Dodge Ram 3500. All Employer owned vehicles meet all Federal/State licensure/insurance requirements and safety standards. Workers will travel to east central MS for a minimum of one night/maximum of two nights consecutively during July through early September each year. This travel will be by Employer owned vehicles(aforementioned work trucks) at not cost to workers. Employer will also
Special Requirements
Must have six months beekeeping experience.
Must have a valid driver's license or be able to obtain a valid driver's license within 30 days of arrival.
Must have a clean driving record. Must produce and furnish to employer a current abstract showing acceptable driving record.
Must NOT have bee- pollen- or honey-related allergies.
Must be able to lift 50 pounds at a time throughout the work day.
Must be able to bend, stoop, squat, lift, push, pull, climb, balance, sit, stand, throughout the work day. Must show proof of legal authority to work in the US.
Must be available for entire specified period (01/10/2023-10/10/2023).
Must be 18 years of age or older.
Drug/Alcohol/Tobacco free work place.