Beekeeper

Job description / Role

• Raises bees to produce honey and pollinate crops: Assembles beehives, using hand tools, building, inspecting or repairing hives
• 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 and marketing honey and products like beeswax
• May cultivate bees to produce bee colonies and queen bees for sale and be designated Bee Producer; Queen Producer.
• Mentoring or training new beekeepers, once experienced

Requirements

• Must be an experienced beekeeper
• Willing to live and work on the farm
• Good communication skills
• Strong organisation and planning skills.
• Attention to detail.
• The ability to maintain and repair beekeeping equipment.
• Good physical fitness, to carry and lift equipment.

About the Company

A government entity in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.