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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

5

Job Duties:

Worker will be required to perform a variety of duties related to the production of honey and honey bees. General Beekeeping Work will include the following responsibilities: removing supers (bee boxes) from storage and loading onto flat bed trucks; repairing and maintaining supers (sanding, painting, etc.); checking health of hives; adding and removing supers from the hive as needed; extracting honey from frames using extracting equipment; filling drums with honey and moving drums to storage using hand carts; placing empty supers in storage; preparing bee colonies for winter; gathering supers and strapping onto trucks for transport; inspect maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yard, and fences; blow smoke into hives to quiet bees, using smoke producing device, assemble beehives, using hand tools; force bees from hive, using smoke pot or by placing carbolic acid soaked pad over hive to inspect hive and to harvest honeycomb; scrape out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds and mice; destroy superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming; burn hives of diseased bee colony or sterilizes hive, using caustic soda solution; uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts honey; tends machine that extracts liquid honey from combs; place decapped honeycombs in baskets of honey-extracting machine and close cover; remove emptied honeycombs from machine and place them in vacant supers; cut caps from honeycombs; bottle honey; workers possessing the proper licensure may be asked to transport other farm workers.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

Applicants must have 20 days experience with beekeeping and provide the contact information of at least one reference who can verify experience and performance.

Number of Hours Per Week:

45

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Montana Pollinations, Inc.

Location:

Chinook, MT 59523

Worksite

Address:

1/4 mile Southwest Highway 529, Chinook, MT 59523

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24165-108562

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

6/18/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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