apiary worker

Work site environment

• Fruit and vegetable combination farming
• Other miscellaneous animal farming
• Other miscellaneous crop farming
• Outdoors
• Hot
• Noisy
• Wet / damp
• All weather conditions
• Dirty

Work setting

• Rural area

Tasks

• Clear fields of wood and stones
• Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
• Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Weeding
• Harvest crops
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Maintain work records and logs
• Perform general farm duties
• Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
• Work with honey bees

Apiary and honey harvesting experience

• Harvesting honey
• Automated honey extractor
• Honey farm
• Treat bees with antibiotics
• Manage the overall operations of a bee farm
• Manage bee colonies for the production of honey and pollination purposes.
• Harvest, extract and package honey and beeswax
• Extract honey manually
• Detect bee diseases

Type of crops

• Strawberries

Equipment and machinery experience

• Automated irrigation system
• Tractor
• Farm truck
• Loader
• Forklift
• Hand tools

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Ability to work independently
• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Tight deadlines
• Physically demanding
• Repetitive tasks
• Attention to detail
• Handling heavy loads
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Large workload
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Sound discrimination
• Sitting
• Standing for extended periods
• Walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Excellent oral communication
• Organized
• Team player
• Flexibility
• Reliability
• Quick learner

Screening questions

• Are you authorized to work in Canada?
• Are you available for shift or on-call work?
• Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?