Beekeeper Helper

Beekeeper Helper at Reynaga Apiaries in Sanger, CA.

Beekeeping: Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of commercial beekeeping. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feeding and medicate bees for diseases and pests. Maintain hives in healthy state. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Build, rebuild, paint, and clean boxes for beehives. Add or remove boxes to and from beehives as necessary. Run queen breeding yard and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. Ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Harmonize bees with their natural cycle. Cap and handle combs. Remove wax from honey. Remove honey from hives. Extract honey. Workers must be familiar with hive tools and smoker. Worker will 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. General yard work around facilities. Workers with driver license may be asked to drive workers from/to housing, worksite, and grocery store.

Work begins January 15, 2027 and ends October 31, 2027.

Pay is $19.75 per hour.

Housing is provided.

Typical schedule: about 40 hours per week.