H-2A
General yardworkers
- U.S. Honey Bee LLC
- Keaau, HAWAII
Job conditions
- Pay
- $16.00 / hour
- Positions offered
- 58 positions
- Schedule
- Full time
- Contract start
- 9/10/2026
- Contract end
- 1/27/2027
- Visa type
- H-2A
- Address
- 15-1408 Railroad Ave
- ZIP code
- 96749
Duties and description
- This is a non-beekeeping role. This position does not involve beekeeping duties such as managing colony health, hive inspections, splitting hives, monitoring for mites and bee health issues, pollinating, queen rearing, re-queening, etc.
- General yard workers will prepare for the following season. Position involves general, low skilled farm and equipment maintenance including prepping, painting, coating with wax, assembling, and maintaining woodenware/hive equipment.
- Assist in dismantling apiaries and collecting bee equipment from production yards which are no longer being used during our non-production season.
- Organize, clean, stack, and palletize bee boxes and other equipment. Forklift operation for loading/unloading trucks and storing equipment. Assist in transporting hives and bee equipment between production yards and off-season locations. Truck cleaning and unskilled upkeep. Mixing bee feed such as sugar syrup, pollen substitute, etc. for upcoming season.
- Access road maintenance and upkeep. Maintaining yard infrastructure, tree trimming, weed spraying, clearing brush, weed whacking, debris removal. Pest control: ants, roaches, mice, etc. Organizing and cleaning work sites, collecting broken equipment, rubbish, general work site cleaning. Incidental off-season honey processing and bottling, along with annual deep cleaning of the honey house and extraction equipment.
- Assist in assembling apiaries, placing/stacking bee equipment into various outyards, and other general supporting tasks associated with setting up apiaries for the upcoming production season.
- Employees with valid driver’s licenses who live at company-provided housing may drive themselves and other employees in company vehicles from the housing to the worksite or grocery store.
Requirements and occupation
- Education
- No minimum education required
- Occupation
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Listing information
- Case number
- H-300-26187-081538
- Case status
- Certification issued