General Farm Worker - Falkland, BC

Honey Onyx Apiary Inc.
Main Job Location
3265 97 Highway
Falkland, British Columbia
V0E 1W1 Canada

With beehives in Falkland, Kamloops, Westwood, Lake Country areas and Dawson Creek.

Salary: $15.65/Hourly(CURRENT MINIMUM FOR BC)
Job Type: Full-Time with 45 hours/week- Seasonal/temporary
(50 hours/week In May-June and August)
Worker starts: March 5, 2023 until October 20, 2023
Vacation: 4% in lieu of paid vacation days
Language: English or Spanish
Minimum Education: None
Positions Available: 3
Other benefits: Housing is provided by employer

JOB DUTIES. The following duties will be performed in this position:
-Frames and beehives assembly
-Cleaning and maintenance of the working areas (including the bee yard)
-Nucs reception and insertion in brood boxes
-Queens reception and introduction to nucs
-Nucs/Beehives feeding
-Add suppers on crop season
-Suppers loading and downloading
-Beehives movement
-Honey Crop
-Honey Extraction
-Frames cleaning/melting
-Wax melting
-Beehives Sanitary Treatments
-Winter preparation

REQUIREMENTS.
The successful applicant will possess, at a minimum, the following skills and experience:
Proven beehives and honey extraction experience (from 7 months to less than 1 year on apiary type of farm, letter of experience must be provided)
Driving license
Criminal record check will be administered