Honey Manager / Beekeeper 

Job Details

Category:

Product Management

Career Level:

Experienced (Non-Managerial)

Experience:

1 Year

Required Qualification:

Any Graduation

Requires Traveling:

No

Salary:

12000 - 14000 AED

Salary Type:

Per Month

Total Vacancies:

1

Skills

hivesourcesmokeharvestbasecosmeticshealthrequirementsproductionindustrialbreedingenglisheducation

Description

• We are excited to recruit for one of our top clients a Honey Manager / Beekeper for their Fujairah, UAE operation.
• Raises bees to produce honey and pollinate crops: Assembles beehives, using handtools.
• Arranges with sellers for purchases of honeybee colonies.
• Inserts honeycomb of bees into beehive or inducts wild swarming bees into hive of prepared honeycomb frames.
• Places screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees and sets hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen.
• Forces bees from hive, using smoke pot or by placing carbolic acid soaked pad over hive to inspect hive and to harvest honeycombs.
• Scrapes out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds and mice.
• Collects royal jelly from queen bee cells for sale as base for cosmetics and as health food.
• Destroys superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming.
• Destroys diseased bee colonies, using cyanide gas.
• Burns hive of diseased bee colony or sterilizes hive, using caustic soda solution.
• Uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts honey.
• Arranges with buyers for sale of honey.
• May cultivate bees to produce bee colonies and queen bees for sale and be designated Bee Producer; Queen Producer

Requirements

• Knowledge of conventional honey production (APIS)
• Industrial approach (honey processing)
• Experience in breeding bees
• Knowledge of wild/native bees
• Reasonable English knowledge
• Relevant education is advantage