Farmworkers, Farm & Ranch Animals
Employer: Traveling Honey Bees, Inc.
Location: Wasco, CA
Workers needed: 22
Pay: $16.90/hour
Season: Jan 20, 2027 – Nov 1, 2027
Experience: 1 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Crops/Commodities: Honey
Perform manual and mechanical duties related to commercial beekeeping and honey production. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones, and queens. Must work all aspects of beekeeping. Make, paint, and clean boxes. Assemble hives using hand tools. Insert honeycombs into hive. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feed and medicate bees for diseases, parasites, and pests. Sterilize hive and burn diseased hive or bee colony. Run queen breeding yard. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination. Harvest and extract honey. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extract honey. Remove frames covered with bees and shake into cages. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. Must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey, or other products of the hive. Perform mechanized extraction. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintain extraction equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. Raise bees to pollinate crops. Induct wild swarming bees into prepared honeycomb frames. Place
screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees. Set hive in orchard, clover field, or near other sources of nectar and pollen. Force bees from hive using smoke pot or carbolic acid-soaked pad. Must not have honey, pollen, or bee related allergies. Approximate staggered entry: 13 workers to begin on Jan. 15, 2027, 5 workers to begin on March 10, 2027 and 4 workers to begin on July 9, 2027.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: 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.
Transport: See Addendum C
Experience wanted: 1 months
One (1) month of recent and verifiable experience required for the job duties listed. Be able to lift up to 80 lbs. Once hired, worker may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment.
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