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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

3

Job Duties:

Assessing the health of the hive, check mite infestations, Monitoring and treating the hive when health problems arise, Harvesting and extracting honey, Prepare bees and equipment for pollination activities, cleaning and constructing hives raising and replacing queen bees, Dividing colonies when necessary and replacing combs. Checking colonies for additional store capacity. Fixing beehive equipment when needed. Mow, cut, weed fields and ground preparation to set the apiaries. Assist with farm building maintenance and maintaining the farm truck clean. For weed control around the beeyards, the employer uses a trimmer/weed-eater. Workers do not perform hand-weeding in a stooped, kneeling, or squatting position, and the use of short-handled tools is not required. Will abide by Sections 3437 and 3456(b–c) of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations: - Any hand-weeding will be occasional or intermittent (20% or less of weekly hours). - No short-handled tools will be used in a stooped, kneeling, or squatting position. Transporting and relocation beehives to different orchards or blooming fields for pollination, honey harvest or feeding yards, load and unload beehives at flatbed truck using a forklift. All driving time will be fully compensated. Driving time, fueling, paperwork, vehicle maintenance, and supply pickups will be paid as hours worked. Driver’s license is not a minimum requirement.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Experience must be in commercial beekeeping. Employer may terminate a worker if a worker:refuses without justified cause to perform work for which the worker was recruited and hired; or commits a serious act of misconduct; or fails, after completing any training to be able to perform all of the tasks described in the job order. If the worker voluntarily abandons employment before the end of the contract period or is terminated for cause, and the employer notifies the SWA, DOL, and USCIS in the case of an H2A worker, the employer will not be responsible for providing or paying for the subsequent transportation and subsistence expenses of that worker, and the worker is not entitled to the three-fourths guarantee.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Jose Luis Godinez Cervantes

Company Name:

GODINEZ APIARIES INC

Location:

REEDLEY, CA 93654

Worksite

Address:

6183 s Englehart ave, Reedley, CA 93654

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25331-442838

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

12/31/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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