Overview

- Work Term: Seasonal
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 60 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 5 years or more
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
- Dirty
Work setting
- Staff accommodation available
Tasks
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
- Harvest crops
- Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system
Apiary and honey harvesting experience
- Detect bee diseases
- Manage bee colonies for the production of honey and pollination purposes.
- Manage the overall operations of a bee farm
- Oversee the honey extraction
- Treat bees with antibiotics
- Automated honey extractor
- Apiary management
- Harvesting honey
- Honey farm
Equipment and machinery experience
- Farm truck
- Forklift
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads




- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
Screening questions
- 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
- Early morning
Government programs
- Recognized employer
Employment terms options
- Evening
- Flexible hours
- Morning
Employment terms options
- Night
- On call
- Day
- Weekend
- Overtime available
Other perks
- On-site housing options

📌 Apiary technician (High River)
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