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Job Details

Apiary Technician

Employer

Hoetmer Honey Company Inc.

Date Posted

November 18, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Rochester, AB
  • Earnings $17.00 to $22.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 40 to 60 hours per week
  • Position Seasonal Full Time
  • Vacancies 10  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Dec 18, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Hoetmer Honey Company Inc.

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • At heights
  • Dusty
  • Hot
  • Noisy
  • Odours

Work setting

  • Rural area
  • Staff accommodation available

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

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

First Aid Certificate

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

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

Screening questions

  • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
  • Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?

Government programs

Recognized employer

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • On-site housing options
  • Parking available

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Apiary Technician is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

General Farm Workers
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

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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