07/06/2021
We require an experienced beekeeper to join our close-knit team in Rotorua in time for the 2022 season in a fixed term role.
This is a career-building opportunity for an experienced candidate seeking progression to a team leader role.
The Role
As a Beekeeper reporting to the Beekeeping Manager you will:
- Excellent beekeeping skills to develop strong hives, healthy bees and queens
- Ensure pollination and honey product prospects are maximised
- Collect and process honey
- Work as part of a close-knit team and provide support to other team members
Skills and Experience
The successful applicant will be DECA qualified who has:
- Proven experience in a commercial beekeeping environment including: hive maintenance, manipulation, splitting, swarm control, feeding, re-queening, disease prevention, honey harvesting and honey extraction
- Ability to shift, transport and repair hives
- Must be a team player and able to work hard alongside your team mates
- Experience rearing queens would be an advantage
- Having a class 2 licence with no prior convictions and a current forklift licence would be an advantage
What’s on Offer
- A fantastic opportunity to join a leading Manuka honey company locally owned and operated by Beekeepers
- Outstanding team culture where staff are friends not just colleagues
- Work in a fast paced and exciting industry that has taken off in New Zealand
- Real opportunities for career progression to Team Leader and above
Applicants for this position MUST already have New Zealand residency or a valid New Zealand Work Visa and must pass a drug test. We are an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity.