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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

3

Job Duties:

Harvesting honey, propolis, wax, royal jelly and pollen from active bee hives. Task may include pulling honey boxes from hives and preparing frames of honey for extraction. Perform maintenance on honey boxes and frames including painting, nailing, stapling and gluing wood hive parts. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hammers, prybars, paint brushes, rollers, sprayers, and sanding equipment and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences. Prepare bees and bee equipment for honey production. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of beekeeping. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feeding and medicate bees for diseases and pests. Maintain hives in healthy state. Locate and replace queens. Make divides. Run queen breeding yard and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. Ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Harmonize bees with their natural cycle. Raise bees to produce honey and pollen. Assemble hives using hand tools. Inserts honeycombs into hive. Inspect hive and to harvest honeycomb. Remove parasites and vermin. Collect royal jelly. Destroy superfluous queen bee cells to prevent colony division. Burn diseased hive or bee colony. Sterilize hive using caustic soda solution. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extracts honey. Find and remove old queens from hives and replace with new queen. Remove frames covered with bees and shake into cages. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintenance of all mechanical equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. Must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. Must have field-based honey bee experience. Must assess colonies to determine if colonies require additional storage capacity, more time for honey to be finished, or whether honey is ready for removal. Carefully remove honey from colony to prevent loss of queen. Take careful consideration of procedures to prevent hazardous conditions. Work is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 90 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a workers ability to perform the job. Exposure to extreme temp, repetitive movements, extensive pushing, pulling walking and frequent stooping Saturday work required. Workers with clean driving record and/or insurable driver's license may be required to drive company vehicles. Must have or be able to obtain driver's license within 30 days of hire. Must be able to lift and carry 60 lbs frequently Must pass employer paid post hire drug test

Job Classification:

45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch and Aquacultural Animals

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Experience as Honey production Beekeeper

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Bee Tree Labs

Company Name:

Apesotium Scientific, LLC

Location:

San Antonio, TX 78222

Worksite

Address:

96 Mahan Rd, Somerset, TX 78069

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-21270-608138

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Raises and/or bonuses may be offered based on work performance, skill or tenure.

Date Posted:

10/5/2021

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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