Apiary Technician

Work site environment

• Outdoors
• At heights
• Dusty
• Hot
• Noisy
• Odours

Work setting

• Rural area
• Staff accommodation available

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
• Monitoring animal health
• Work with honey bees
• Harvest crops
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
• Maintain work records and logs
• Perform general farm duties
• Write daily basic progress reports
• Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• First Aid Certificate

Experience and specialization

Apiary and honey harvesting experience

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

Equipment and machinery experience

• Farm truck
• Forklift

Additional information

Security and safety

• Driving record check (abstract)

Transportation/travel information

• Public transportation is not available
• Own transportation
• Valid driver's licence
• Drive manual transmission vehicle

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
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Sitting
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Own tools/equipment

• Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

• Organized
• Team player
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Reliability

Benefits

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• On-site housing options
• Parking available