Assistant Farm Manager

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Skills and Abilities

Tasks
- Work with honey bees
- Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
- Manage overall operation of farm
- Maintain financial and production records
- Perform general farm duties
- Recruit, hire and supervise staff and/or volunteers
Supervision
- 3-4 people
Apiary and honey harvesting experience
- Apiary management
- Automated honey extractor
- Detect bee diseases
- Hypothesize possible causes and solutions to colony collapse disorder (CCD) based on knowledge of bee behaviour, biology and cast system
- Manage bee colonies for the production of honey and pollination purposes.
- Treat bees with antibiotics
- Queen bee production from grafting
Equipment and machinery experience
- Truck
Security and safety
- Bondable
- Driver's validity licence check
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Fast-paced environment
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Standing for extended periods
- Tight deadlines
- Work under pressure
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?
Employment terms options
- On call
- Day
- Weekend
- Overtime available