Job Information
Drew's Honeybees Agricultural Workers, All Other in Norwich, Connecticut
1 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 02/16/2024 - 11/15/2024.
The Apiary Manager will beekeeping alongside Drew. They will grow into the primary person responsible for monitoring, noting, planning, and caring for our 80-120 hives (seasonal variation due to selling hives in spring). Responsibilities include making splits; feeding as beneficial; monitoring for queen and hive health, observing hives, planning and implementing beneficial interventions; monitoring and treating bees for Varroa destructor; maintaining bee yards; adding and removing equipment according to the season and hive productivity; maintaining equipment by assembling and painting bee boxes; assembling repairing frames and other equipment; driving work vehicles to bee yards, which are on employer farm property; daily, incidental upkeep to equipment and bee yards safe and operational. The Apiary Manager must be able to lift at least 75 lbs. The position includes incidental work such as, but not limited to, maintenance of equipment (including electric fencing), maintenance of passable access to apiaries. Moreover, the Apiary Manager will extract and bottling honey for sale.
Requirements:
- Lifting requirement 75 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive pushing or pulling
- Extensive sitting or walking
- Frequent stooping or bending over
- Repetitive movements
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov