Overview

Languages

English

Education

- No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

1 to less than 7 months

On site

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

Work site environment

- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Outdoors
- Hot
- Noisy
- Wet/damp
- All weather conditions
- Dirty

Work setting

- Rural area

Responsibilities

Tasks

- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Weeding
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Maintain work records and logs
- Perform general farm duties
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
- Work with honey bees

Experience and specialization

Apiary and honey harvesting experience

- Harvesting honey
- Automated honey extractor
- Honey farm
- Treat bees with antibiotics
- Manage the overall operations of a bee farm




- Manage bee colonies for the production of honey and pollination purposes.
- Harvest, extract and package honey and beeswax
- Extract honey manually
- Detect bee diseases

Type of crops

- Raspberries
- Strawberries

Equipment and machinery experience

- Automated irrigation system
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Loader
- Forklift
- Hand tools

Additional information

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
- Large workload
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Reliability
- Quick learner

Benefits

Other perks

- Free parking available
- Parking available

📌 apiary worker (Steinbach)
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