Earnings $21.00 to $24.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
Work Hours 30 to 80 hours per week
Position Seasonal Full Time
Job Requirements
Employer
Languages
Education
- Hot
Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
Tasks
- Diagnose livestock health issues
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
- Monitoring animal health
- Maintain livestock performance records
Supervision
3-4 people
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.
- Oversee the honey extraction
- Treat bees with antibiotics
Equipment and machinery experience
- Lift truck
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Team player
- Judgement
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
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Interest in comparing information to examine produce for quality and prepare for market, to feed and tend livestock and poultry, and to clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens; and to set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Methodical
Interest in comparing information to examine produce for quality and prepare for market, to feed and tend livestock and poultry, and to clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens; and to set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Objective
Interest in driving - operating and maintaining farm machinery and equipment
Innovative
Interest in detecting disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry The abilities related to this job are shown along with your selected abilities.
Typical ability expectations for this job
Do you have good mechanical skills? Do you have a keen interest in livestock, biology, and the setting? Are you in good health and love working outdoors? Then you may want to reap what you sow in a career as a farm worker or technician.
📌 Apiary Technician (Grande Prairie)
🏢 Alberta
📍 Grande Prairie
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