apiary technician

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment

• Outdoors
• Hot
• Odours
• Wet/damp
• Cold/refrigerated

Work setting

• Rural area
• Remote location

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Diagnose livestock health issues
• Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
• Monitoring animal health
• Work with honey bees
• Harvest crops
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Maintain work records and logs
• Write daily basic progress reports
• Operate forklift
• Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system

Experience and specialization

Apiary and honey harvesting experience

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

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence
• Drive manual transmission vehicle

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Ability to work independently
• Fast-paced environment
• Physically demanding
• Repetitive tasks
• Attention to detail
• Handling heavy loads
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Standing for extended periods
• Walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Organized
• Team player