Farmworkers, Farm & Ranch Animals
Employer: Coy Bee Company, LLC
Location: Wiggins, MS
Workers needed: 5
Pay: $15.04/hour
Season: Jan 10, 2027 – Nov 10, 2027
Experience: 6 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
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.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employer will provide three (3) meals per day to the worker In public accommodations if kitchen/cooking facilities are unavailable. Employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities, all of which are in working order, including refrigeration, space for food preparation, cooking accessories and utensils, appliances, and dishwashing facilities so that workers may prepare their own meals. Kitchen facilities include adequate sinks with hot and cold water under pressure. Employer will provide transportation once a week to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries, when the employer is providing cooking and kitchen facilities. In employer provided housing.
Transport: See Addendum C
Experience wanted: 6 months
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.
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