Meadow Ridge Enterprises Ltd.
Location
Saskatoon, SK | Canada
Job description
Meadow Ridge Enterprises Ltd requires 2 Seasonal Apiary Labourers for the 2024 season. Meadow Ridge Enterprises is a commercial beekeeping and queen-rearing operation. The full-time seasonal positions are needed commencing in April and ending in October. Minimum one year to two years of beekeeping experience, with wages starting at $15.00 -17.00 per hour depending on experience. Potential to earn bonuses. Duties include spring feeding, hive maintenance, grafting, raising new queens, and building nucs. Supering hives, harvesting honey, extraction of honey, fall feeding, wrapping of colonies, equipment cleaning, repairing, and yard maintenance. Must be able to work long hours, weekends, and holidays in all kinds of outdoor weather. The job requires heavy lifting, a valid driver's license. Meadow Ridge Enterprises is located 10 miles east of Saskatoon, NW 33-36-3-3.
Essential Skills
- Working with others
Transportation/Travel Information
- Vehicle supplied by employer
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not applicable
Specific Skills
- Apiary Work
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
Type of Equipment
- Lift truck
- Farm truck
Type of Farm Operations
- Beekeeping
Work Location Information
- Staff accommodation available
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Type of Automated Systems Experience
- Automated honey extractor
Work Site Environment
- Outdoors
- Hot
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