apiary worker

Work site environment

• Fruit and vegetable combination farming
• Other miscellaneous animal farming
• Other miscellaneous crop farming
• Outdoors
• Wet/damp
• Noisy
• Odours
• Dusty
• Hot

Work setting

• Rural area

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Hand harvesting vegetables
• Hoeing crops
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Stone and/or wood picking
• Vegetable culling
• Weeding
• Harvest crops
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Apiary work
• Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
• Write daily basic progress reports
• Perform general farm duties

Experience and specialization

Apiary and honey harvesting experience

• Apiary management
• Detection and treatment of bee diseases
• Harvesting honey
• Honey bees
• Honey farm
• Wax stamping beehives

Type of crops

• Strawberries

Equipment and machinery experience

• Farm truck
• Tractor
• Hand tools

Automated systems experience

• Automated irrigation system
• Automated honey extractor

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Tight deadlines
• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Sound discrimination
• Sitting
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Standing for extended periods
• Walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Overtime required

Personal suitability

• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Organized
• Team player
• Excellent oral communication
• Reliability
• Quick learner

Benefits

Other benefits

• Free parking available