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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

8

Job Duties:

This job requires Beekeeping by the worker. Crops: Apiary, Honey Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination. Assemble hives using hand tools. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from the egg through fully developed workers, drones and queens; must work all aspects of commercial bee keeping, including accessing a colony to determine if it needs food or medicine, feeding and medicating bees for diseases, parasites, and pests, maintaining hives in a healthy state, increasing number of hives, raising and replacing queens, make divides, making, painting and cleaning boxes, supervising hives. Maintain colonies of healthy bees for pollination and production of honey, inspect colony for queens, split hives, harvest honey from hives, feeding hives, checking/evaluating colonies(hives) for disease, evaluating overall health of colonies(hives), moving the bees to honey production locations, picking up/carrying/hand-stacking dead colonies(hives/boxes).. Feed and medicate colonies, check hive for disease. Sterilize hive and burn diseases hive or bee colony. Haul bees to/from various orchards. Bee colonies will be transported from primary work site(shop) to orchards and colony boxes must be removed/added throughout the season. During the spring and summer, workers will travel from primary work site(shop) each day to bee yards(fields) and orchards to drop off or pick up bee colonies. Harvest/extract honey. Run queen breeding yard, raise and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures and haul bees to and from different hive locations to ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Collect Royal Jelly, uncap harvested honeycombs and extract honey. Perform Mechanized extraction. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintains extraction equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. Remove frames covered with bees and shake into cages. Manipulate and service hive structures. Must respond correctly to bees to harmonize with their natural cycle and keep them in the healthiest state possible for survival and profitability. General maintenance and servicing of equipment and facility. Workers are expected to perform duties including boxing, weighing and loading of product. Worker must NOT be allergic to bees, honey, pollen, or insect stings.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

B.2 Must have 3 months of Beekeeping experience. B.4b)Must have a valid drivers license or be able to obtain a valid drivers license, must have a clean driving record and furnish proof upon employers request B.4e) Must be able to lift and/or load 65lbs. B.4g) Work may take place when temperatures are below freezing and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. B.4h) May require extensive pulling and/or pushing of tools, hand trucks, etc. B.4i) May require worker to sit and/or walk for extensive periods of time, while hand stacking colony boxes, scooping bees, transporting, unloading, etc. B.4j) Workers will be required to stoop and/or bend over while performing farm labor, such as repairing boxes, gathering bees, extracting bees, honey , etc. B.4k) There will be repetitive movements while performing most of the farm labor duties, for example lifting, scooping, stacking, loading, unloading, etc.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Olson Honey

Company Name:

2B Apiaries, LLC

Location:

Yakima, WA 98908

Worksite

Address:

93 Camfield Rd., Yakima, WA 98908

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-22364-666854

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

1/24/2023

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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