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Hoetmer Honey Company Inc. is hiring
Apiary Technician with LMIA

17.00 $ /hour

  • On site

Job details:

LMIA Status:

Hoetmer Honey Company Inc. has applied for a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) and will be ready to extend an offer to a foreign worker once the application is approved.

Overview

Languages

English

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
  • 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

  • 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
  • Overtime required
  • 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

Apiary Technician

On site - Alberta
Workplace
On site
Location
Rochester, Alberta
Job type
Seasonal employment Full time
Vacancies
1
Pay
17.00 per hour, 40 to 60 hours per week
Published on
18 Nov 2024
Applications ends
18 Dec 2024 30 days left
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Hoetmer Honey Company Inc.

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