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Beekeeper

  • Cain's Honey LLC
  • Alexandria, LOUISIANA
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Source last checked: 10/28/2026

Job summary

Livestock and animal-care worker

Pay
$10.42 / hour
Contract start / Contract end
1/1/2027 to 11/1/2027
Education
No minimum education required

Experience required: Yes · 2 months of experience

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Job conditions

Pay
$10.42 / hour
Positions offered
3 positions
Schedule
Full time
Contract start
1/1/2027
Contract end
11/1/2027
Visa type
H-2A
Address
635 Downs Lane
ZIP code
71303
Hours per week
35

Additional pay information

Wage offer for H2A workers only is $9.14 per hour

Duties and description

Original English description
  • Duties will include operating farm equipment including, but not limited to, tractors with various implements, all-terrain vehicles, and sprayers to prepare and maintain land, fertilize, cultivate, plant, harvest, load, and transport crops; also conduct inspections, repairs and maintenance on farm equipment when required. Use hand tools, such as but not limited to shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, and shears. Preform duties associated with bee keeping such as work with bees in all stages, drones, and queens; assess colonies to determine if food or medicine is needed; maintain, split, and increase number of hives, raise, replace queens, make divides, build, maintain, and clean boxes. Raise bees to produce honey and maintain colony health. Find, cage, and rear queens; install queen cells; clean and scrape beehives to remove wax buildup and debris. Operate and sterilize honey extracting equipment, extract honey from honeycombs. Identify and detect common brood diseases. Winterize beekeeping facilities, equipment and prepare beehives for shipment. Participate in irrigation activities such as maintaining, repairing, and operating irrigation equipment. Perform sanitation duties that will include removing trash or debris from work areas, farm buildings, and fields assist in upkeep of sanitation standards required by OSHA such as change potable water quality when necessary; keep hand-washing facilities neat and orderly, clean toilet area of any personal contaminates, and proper disposal of trash or garbage from the facilities. Mow grass around fields and around farm shop locations; dig ditches or channels for drainage or seedlings. Perform minor repairs to farm buildings, or other structures as well as using hand tools to perform maintenance or repairs to fencing (barrier, railing, or other upright structure) around farm. Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress. There are few typical days and workers may be required to change duties and/or locations often and engage in various general functions. All other duties, if assigned, will be duties as per SOC/OES Occupation Code (onetonline.org)

Requirements and occupation

Education
No minimum education required
Occupation
Livestock and animal-care worker
Experience required
Yes
Minimum experience
2 months of experience

Experience must be in beekeeping. Worker may be stung by bees (must not be allergic to bees or insect stings) Once hired worker may be required to submit to a random drug test at no cost to worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. The employer may terminate a worker if a worker: refuses without justified cause to perform work for which the worker was recruited and hired; or commits a serious act of misconduct; or fails, after completing any training period, to be able to perform all of the tasks described in the job order. If the worker voluntarily abandons employment before the end of the contract period or is terminated for cause, and the employer notifies the SWA, DOL, and USCIS in the case of an H2A worker, the employer will not be responsible for providing or paying for the subsequent transportation and subsistence expenses of that worker, and the worker is not entitled to the three-fourths guarantee.

Additional requirements are listed in the job description.

Listing information

Case number
H-300-26292-308184
Case status
Acceptance issued

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