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Farmworkers, Farm & Ranch Animals

  • Coy Bee Company, LLC
  • Wiggins, MISSISSIPPI
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Job summary

Livestock and animal-care worker

Pay
$15.04 / hour
Contract start / Contract end
1/10/2027 to 11/10/2027
Education
No minimum education required

Experience required: Yes · 6 months of experience

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Job conditions

Pay
$15.04 / hour
Positions offered
5 positions
Schedule
Full time
Contract start
1/10/2027
Contract end
11/10/2027
Visa type
H-2A
Address
358 Highway 13
ZIP code
39577
Hours per week
45

Additional pay information

AEWR; US Workers: IA: $19.52, MS: $15.04; H2A Workers: IA: $18.28, MS: $13.93

Duties and description

Original English description
  • Beekeeper Farm Worker possible duties: Workers will perform many beekeeping tasks while on the job. In the spring, workers will divide colonies(hives) to make starter colonies(hives) and to increase overall number of colonies(hives) for optimum honey production. This involves assembling wooden and/or plastic bee boxes, inserting frames into these boxes, shaking boxes to remove bees, scooping bees with hand-held container, pouring bees into empty (frame only) boxes, loading/unloading trucks with forklift (if pallets) or hand-stacking empty boxes on truck bed, feeding hives, checking/evaluating colonies(hives) for disease, evaluating overall health of colonies(hives), moving the bees to honey production locations, picking up/carrying/hand-stacking dead colonies(hives/boxes). Workers will be lifting, pushing, pulling, loading/unloading, carrying objects up to 50 lbs; may climb, balance, sit, stoop, bend, squat, clean equipment and grounds area. Workers will also harvest honey by forcing bees from boxes using smoker and physically lifting boxes of honey for transport to extraction facility on company owned vehicle. Workers will operate extraction equipment at the necessary time under supervision of Employer/Steven Coy. When weather is not conducive to work in the bee yards, there is shop work to do in the form of maintenance/repair of vehicles, equipment, bee boxes, pallets, box lids, barreling of honey, cleaning/labeling/stacking barrels, and possibly other related beekeeper farm worker activities as per SOC/OES 45- 2093 (onetonline.org). Employer operates a drug/Alcohol/Tobacco free work place. Must speak and understand English.

Requirements and occupation

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

Six (6) months recent and verifiable experience with references required as a beekeeper. May not have bee, pollen or honey-related allergies. Must be able to obtain a drivers following hire and obtain clean driving record. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Once hired, worker may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to the worker. Testing positive for an illegal/controlled substance or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment.

Additional requirements are listed in the job description.

Listing information

Case number
H-300-26301-328466
Case status
Acceptance issued

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