Bee Keeper And Farm Laborer

This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information, please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2057059

Dates of Need: 9/16/2023-12/22/2023. Must have 3 months of experience with commercial beekeeping. The lifting requirement for this position is 70 pounds.\ Beekeeping duties: split, medicate and check bee health, harvest honey, pollinate, re-queen, etc.\ General farm work, farm field/shed sanitation duties include, trimming pasture and fields, painting and repairing farm buildings, digging ditches, repairing buildings and fences, and ag equipment and machinery used on the farm.\ Irrigation duties include digging corrugates and setting siphon tubes and checking fields on a regular basis. Workers may be stung by bees (must not be allergic to bees or insect stings).\ Will be exposed to tree and plant pollens and outdoors. Must be able to climb, walk, bend and kneel for long periods of time.

Full Growing Season Commitment: The job offered requires that the worker be available for work every day that work is available for the full period of employment. The worker agrees to be available for work and perform the assigned work for the assigned employer whenever work is available through the full period of employment.\ Training: There will be a demonstration period to familiarize workers with job specification and to demonstrate proper harvest methods and other crop specific issues such as particular grading and or sizing.

The anticipated hours listed represent the normal work schedule. Due to the nature of these crops, weather, and the requirement to send crops to customers when needed, it is the prevailing practice to work more or different hours than those listed. A worker may be offered more than the specified hours of work; however the worker will not be required to work for more than the number of hours specified in the job order, or on the workers Sabbath or Federal holidays. Saturday work may be required. Employer-paid drug test is required if a worker has an accident at work.\ If light duty work is assigned for a workers compensation injury, the worker will be expected to return to work and perform the light duty work upon advice from a physician and the workers\ compensation insurance company.\ Workday start times vary depending on the weather. depending on the time of year, hours of daylight, and production requirements. Workers must be able to work varying shifts as required by the season and work performed. Workers are notified of any change in the start times. Work may be performed during rain, light snow, cold, freezing temperatures and/or in high humidity and in temperatures over a 100 degrees F. Worker may be required to work in fields when crops are wet with dew/rain and should have suitable clothing for variable weather conditions.