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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

1

Job Duties:

Beekeeping: Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination. 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. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Build, rebuild, paint, and clean boxes for beehives. Add or remove boxes to and from beehives as necessary. 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. Cap and handle combs. Remove wax from honey. Remove honey from hives. Extract honey. Workers must be familiar with hive tools and smoker. All special protective clothing such as veils, gloves, and suits will be provided to the workers. Work will assist with refining wax and processing hone. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. General yard work around facilities. Workers may also participate in soil sampling activities pulling plugs out of ground (using shovels or soil probes) and placing in a bag to send for testing. Worker may transport himself to fields/housing/grocery, etc.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

Must be 18 years or older. The company may conduct criminal background checks pre-hire at the employers expense. Valid Drivers License required to operate the companys vehicles. All tools, supplies and equipment will be provided at no cost to the workers. Must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey, or other products of the hive. Lifting requirement 5-40 lbs. Workers may be offered more than the standard hours of work in a single workday. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Hours of work may increase/decrease depending on crop yield and or weather and can occur at any time throughout the season. The majority of the workday is spent on ones feet and outdoors. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist) push, pull, reach, and lift.

Number of Hours Per Week:

35

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Canon Farms Partnership

Location:

Tunica, MS 38676

Worksite

Address:

1355 Little Texas Road, Tunica, MS 38676

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24274-374812

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

10/10/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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