beekeeping technician

Overview

Languages

English or French

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years

On site

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

Work site environment

• Outdoors
• Dusty
• Hot
• Odours
• All weather conditions
• Dirty

Work setting

• Rural area

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
• Monitoring animal health
• Harvest crops
• Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry

Experience and specialization

Apiary and honey harvesting experience

• Detect bee diseases
• Harvest, extract and package honey and beeswax
• Treat bees with antibiotics
• Automated honey extractor
• Harvesting honey
• Honey farm

Equipment and machinery experience

• Farm truck
• Forklift

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

• Own transportation
• Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Tight deadlines
• Physically demanding
• Repetitive tasks
• Attention to detail
• Handling heavy loads
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Organized
• Team player
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Reliability