H-2A

Beekeeper; Farm Worker

Condições da vaga

Duties may include: Feeding, inspecting, splitting beehives using specific hive tools, smokers, and feeding pumps, create nucleus colonies from existing beehives, building bee related equipment: boxes, frames, lids, and pallets. Worker must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from the egg through fully developed workers, drones and queens. Worker(s) will assist in assessing a colony to determine if bees need medicating. Worker(s) will be expected to maintain hives to ensure the hive stays in a healthy state. Worker will assist in honey harvesting. General maintenance and servicing of beekeeping equipment and beekeeping facilities. Load hives and harvested honey into trucks, and drive trucks to market location or storage facilities. Worker may also assist in coffee tree farm as needed. Duties will include manually picking ripe coffee cherries and carrying them in baskets, often requiring navigating steep or uneven terrain & other related Beekeeper; Farm Worker activities as per SOC/OES 45-2093 (onetonline.org).
Possible weekend/holiday work.
The employer may choose to pay experienced workers, regardless of origin, more than the published minimum wage rate.