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Apiary Supervisor
Employer
Poelman Apiaries Ltd.Date Posted
December 09, 2025Languages
English-
Location Fort Macleod, AB
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Earnings $22.00 to $25.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 45 to 60 hours per week
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Position Seasonal Full Time
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Vacancies 5  Vacancies
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Closing Date Jan 29, 2026
Employer
Poelman Apiaries Ltd.
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
Outdoors
Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation provided
Tasks
- Work with honey bees
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
- Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system
Apiary and honey harvesting experience
- Apiary management
- Detect bee diseases
- Honey farm
- Manage a set of measures designed to protect a beekeeper's honey bees from the entry and spread of pests
- Oversee the honey extraction
- Treat bees with antibiotics
- Automated honey extractor
- Harvesting honey
Transportation/travel information
Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Judgement
Screening questions
- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
Employment terms options
Evening
Experience
5 years or more
Employment terms options
- Day
- Weekend
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Interest Codes
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in handling machinery and equipment; and in participating in the provision of services
- METHODICAL
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Interest in co-ordinating and maintaining financial and operational records; and in hiring and training workers
- innovative
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Interest in negotiating with farmers and farm managers regarding services
Abilities
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Mental Abilities
General Learning Ability
Verbal Ability
Numerical Ability
Visual Abilities
Spatial Perception
Form Perception
Clerical Perception
Physical Abilities
Motor Coordination
Finger Dexterity
Manual Dexterity
Interest Codes
- METHODICAL
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Interest in handling equipment to perform general farm duties; and in maintaining livestock performance records and in training horses
- INNOVATIVE
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Interest in co-ordinating information to formulate feeding programs
- directive
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Interest in supervising feeding, health and breeding programs; may supervise general farm workers and harvesting labourers
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