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Apiary Technician
Employer
Poelman Apiaries Ltd.Date Posted
January 16, 2025Languages
English-
Location Fort Macleod, AB
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Earnings $17.98 to $21.00 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 15  Vacancies
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Closing Date Feb 15, 2025
Employer
Poelman Apiaries Ltd.
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Hot
- All weather conditions
Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
Tasks
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
- Work with honey bees
- Harvest crops
- Perform general farm duties
- Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system
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.
- 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
Transportation/travel information
Valid driver's licence
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
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
Team player
Screening questions
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
Experience
3 years to less than 5 years
Other benefits
On-site housing options
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Interest Codes
- METHODICAL
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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
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in driving - operating and maintaining farm machinery and equipment
- innovative
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Interest in detecting disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
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