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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

1

Job Duties:

Beekeeping. Perform manual and mechanical duties related to commercial beekeeping and 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. Inserts honeycombs into hive. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feed and medicate bees for diseases, parasites, and pests. Sterilize hive and burn diseased hive or bee colony. Run queen breeding yard. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination. Make splits. Supering hives. Pull/remove frames of honey covered with bees and shake into cages. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations ensuring healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Load, unload and move bees/boxes. Prepare hives for indoor/outdoor wintering. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Cut grass with lawnmowers and trimmers around barns, pond, grass waterways, fields, under fences and farm roadside edges. May fertilize and spray with backpack sprayers. May operate and perform minor maintenance on farm vehicles or equipment. Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help. May operate farm vehicles to haul bees, equipment and farm supplies and to drive other farmworkers from place to place around the farm properties (including on public roads to reach farmer’s fields) during the workday. May operate light truck or van off the farm and over the road to drive themselves or other farmworkers from place to place, such as to the grocery store, bank, government agencies, medical or dental offices and so forth. Though not a hiring requirement, if a worker drives a company vehicle during the period of employment then at the time of operating the company vehicle the driver must possess a valid driver’s license issued by a U.S. state or foreign equivalent and operate the company vehicle in accordance with the license restrictions and vehicle classifications applicable to that license. Apicultura. Realizar tareas manuales y mecánicas relacionadas con la apicultura comercial y la producción de miel. Debe estar familiarizado con el trabajo con abejas en todas sus etapas, desde el huevo hasta las obreras maduras, zánganos y reinas. Deben trabajarse todos los aspectos de la apicultura. Inserta panales en la colmena. Acceda a la colonia para determinar si se necesitan alimentos o medicamentos. Alimentar y medicar a las abejas contra enfermedades, parásitos y plagas. Esterilizar la colmena y quemar la colmena o colonia de abejas enferma. Dirigir el patio de cría de reinas. Levanta y reemplaza reinas. Haz divisiones. Prepare abejas y equipos de abejas para la polinización. Haz divisiones. Superación de la urticaria. Saque/retire los marcos de miel cubiertos de abejas y agítelos dentro de las jaulas. Manipular y dar servicio a las estructuras de la colmena. Transporte abejas hacia y desde diferentes ubicaciones de colmenas para garantizar colonias de abejas sanas y productivas. Cargar, descargar y mover abejas/cajas. Prepare las colmenas para la invernada en interiores y exteriores. Los trabajadores realizarán las tareas asignadas según las instrucciones de su supervisor. Corte el césped con cortadoras de césped y podadoras alrededor de graneros, estanques, canales de césped, campos, debajo de cercas y bordes de caminos agrícolas. Puede fertilizar y rociar con pulverizadores de mochila. Puede operar y realizar mantenimiento menor en vehículos o equipos agrícolas. Dirigir y supervisar el trabajo de ayuda eventual y estacional. Puede operar vehículos agrícolas para transportar abejas, equipos y suministros agrícolas y para llevar a otros trabajadores agrícolas de un lugar a otro alrededor de las propiedades agrícolas (incluso en caminos públicos para llegar a los campos de los agricultores) durante la jornada laboral.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-hire and is not a part of the interview process. Negative result may be required post-hire and before commencing work. Must be able to lift 75 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 75 lbs. in field. Must not hinder another workers productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Requires three months verifiable prior experience as a beekeeper. Must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Shaken Creek Bee Company, Inc.

Location:

Hampstead, NC 28443

Worksite

Address:

687 Pinkney Rd, Burgaw, NC 28425

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24337-509882

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

12/4/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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