Beekeeper Resume
Summary : As a Beekeeper, managed and cared for beehives, including inspecting, feeding, and maintaining hive health, performed routine maintenance and repairs on beekeeping equipment and facilities, adhered to safety guidelines and protocols in a physically demanding work environment.
Skills : Beekeeping Knowledge, Hive Inspection.
Description :
- Operated vehicles to transport equipment and bee colonies to various locations.
- Worked independently in the field, managing your pace and taking appropriate breaks.
- Communicated effectively with team members and supervisors regarding hive conditions and progress.
- Carried out hive audits for selection of hives to be placed at farms, and during removals to better understand hive health.
- Monitored and reported quality status through the pollination season.
- Feeded hives with Beeflow’s technologies with care and precision.
- Kept hives productive and healthy to help with pollination needs.
Experience
10+ Years
Level
Senior
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture
Beekeeper Resume
Summary : As a Beekeeper, inspected for mites or any other pest/disease, supported our 3rd Party Beekeepers with deliveries or removals to farms if needed, including placement of markers on farms to indicate where hives should be placed, repaired and reported any damaged hives and assemble hives.
Skills : Bee Handling, Honey Extraction.
Description :
- Worked shifts ranging from 6 to 16 hours during the day or occasionally during the night, if needed.
- Managed and maintained multiple bee colonies, ensuring their health and productivity.
- Conducted regular hive inspections, disease control, and pest management to ensure the well-being of the bees.
- Harvested honey and other hive products, adhering to quality standards and hygiene protocols.
- Coordinated with agricultural experts to optimize hive placement for pollination services.
- Educated and trained new beekeepers and apiary staff on best practices and safety guidelines.
- Assembled beehives to desired specifications, and collected honey and royal jelly.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Biology
Beekeeper Resume
Headline : As a Beekeeper, responsible for assisting in the day-to-day operations of the apiary, including hive inspections, feeding, and medication administration, participating in the extraction and processing of honey and other hive products.
Skills : Disease Management, Queen Bee Management.
Description :
- Responsible for collaborating with the sales and marketing team to promote and sell honey products at local markets and events.
- Responsible for maintaining accurate records of hive activities, production yields, and inventory.
- Responsible for sitting, standing, bending, and crouching throughout the day, and responsible for working long hours in various weather conditions.
- Responsible for working on rough and varied terrain.
- Responsible for maintaining and managing beehives, ensuring the health and productivity of the bee colonies.
- Responsible for inspecting hives regularly for signs of disease, pests, or other issues.
- Responsible for harvesting honey and other bee products, such as beeswax and pollen.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Biology
Assistant Beekeeper Resume
Objective : As an Assistant Beekeeper, responsible for monitoring and maintaining hive equipment, including repairing or replacing damaged parts, providing proper nutrition and medication to bees as needed, and transporting bees to different locations for pollination services.
Skills : Hive management, Inspection.
Description :
- Responsible for maintaining and managing bee colonies, including feeding, inspecting, and harvesting honey.
- Responsible for keeping accurate records on hive locations, numbers, and activities as well as other duties assigned by supervisor.
- Responsible for assisting in planting new apiaries (bee yards) and maintaining existing apiaries through pruning trees and shrubs that may interfere with bees’ flight paths.
- Responsible for participating in training opportunities regarding best management practices for pollinator conservation and participated in community outreach efforts related to pollinators when appropriate.
- Responsible for training new beekeepers on the proper techniques for collecting honey and caring for bees.
- Responsible for inspecting hives to determine if they were healthy or needed medical attention.
- Responsible for keeping detailed records of all activities, including hive inspections, feeding schedules, and sales.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Junior
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture
Associate Beekeeper Resume
Objective : As an Associate Beekeeper, responsible for maintaining a clean work environment by sweeping floors and washing equipment after each use, collecting honey from 10 different hives weekly (200 total) as a part-time job in the summer season.
Skills : Disease and pest control, Honey extraction, and Processing.
Description :
- Recorded data from entries into hive activity logs to assist with long-term monitoring efforts regarding pollinator population decline.
- Destroyed excess queen bee cells to prevent the division of a colony.
- Scraped out hive parasites and removed vermin, destroyed diseased bee colonies.
- Cultivating queen bees for sale to other Apiarists, arranged the sale of honey to local buyers.
- Split colonies, collected honey from hives, and extracted honey from combs transport hives to various locations.
- Assisted with long-term monitoring efforts regarding pollinator population decline.
- Built and maintained hives, and packaged honey and honey products for processing.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture
Beekeeper Resume
Objective : As a Beekeeper, destroyed diseased bee colonies, using cyanide gas.Burns the hive of the diseased bee colony or sterilizes the hive, using caustic soda solution, uncaped harvested honeycombs and extracts honey.
Skills : Pollination services, Beekeeping equipment maintenance.
Description :
- Responsible for arranging with buyers for the sale of honey.
May cultivate bees to produce bee colonies and queen bees for sale and be designated Bee Producer, Queen Producer.
- Responsible for destroying superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming.
- Responsible for facilitating pollination by placing frames near flower orchards and clover fields.
- Responsible for arranging for timely inspection, assessments, and checking of natural beehives or box honeycombs to protect health.
- Responsible for inspecting hives for disease or pests to ensure the health of the colony.
- Responsible for coordinating with farmers to develop pollination areas and nectar-producing plants in the farms to attract more bees.
- Responsible for initiating a small honey business on the farm and increasing revenue by 25%.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture
Beekeeper Resume
Objective : As a Beekeeper, responsible for making strong decisions to destroy superfluous queen bees' cells to prevent swarming in the artificial honeycombs, using cyanide gas to destroy diseased bee colonies, and cultivating new ones to produce healthy colonies in the box.
Skills : Training, Education.
Description :
- Responsible for training new recruits on methods used to extract honey and ensured the trainees wore protective suits, gloves, and veils to avoid getting stung.
- Responsible for burning diseased bee colonies and sterilizing hives using caustic soda solution.
- Responsible for providing necessary first aid to employees who have been stung by bees.
- Responsible for transporting honey products to dealers within the area and moved bee cases to new branch locations as per the need.
- Responsible for inducting wild swarming bees into hives prepared with manual honeycomb frames.
- Responsible for placing screen plugs at the entrance of beehives to restrict extraordinary movements and set the boxes near flower orchards, clover fields, or other sources of pollen.
- Responsible for scraping out parasites from beehive boxes to remove insects, fireflies, pests, and wax moth larvae, and maintained cleanliness.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture
Beekeeper Resume
Objective : As a Beekeeper, responsible for maintaining separate containers to collect honey from queen bees and others to sell the royal jelly from the queen as an ingredient base for cosmetics or health food, harvesting honey from honeycombs, and sending the raw product for further processing.
Skills : Inventory management, Sustainability practices.
Description :
- Responsible for collaborating with honey dealers in the area to decide on sale prices during peak season.
- Responsible for hiring as a livestock keeper and took responsibility for maintaining the health of cattle and poultry farms.
- Responsible for ensuring milk and eggs were transported to the vendors daily and kept a record of the daily produce.
- Responsible for removing bee hives from farms and extracting nectar using appropriate equipment.
- Responsible for studying the yearly cycle of queen bees and observing their habits to understand life spans and frequent health diseases.
- Responsible for assisting in transporting honey products to supermarkets and stores after negotiating with dealers.
- Responsible for plugging the entrance of beehives to restrict unnecessary movement of bees.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture
Beekeeper Resume
Headline : As a Beekeeper, responsible for observing and assisting in the daily care of 35 beehives including health management, harvesting honey, and colony maintenance & expansion, assisting with identifying pests and diseases affecting bees utilizing microscopes and tested pollen samples for the presence of pesticides using ELISA kits.
Skills : Beekeeping, Honey Extraction.
Description :
- Maintained orderly condition and cleanliness of hives by regularly checking colonies for larvae and pests.
- Conducted negotiations with government agencies, vendors, and store owners to provide the best quality products at reasonable prices.
- Monitored the health of queen bees to ensure healthy production of eggs and keeping honeycombs free from parasites.
- Installed additional boxes to ensure bees get the required space to produce honey and collect nectar.
- Transported products to local areas and ensured customer satisfaction.
- Assisted in packaging and delivering products in minimum time.
- Inserted honeycombs and inducting wild swarms into prepared hives.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture
Beekeeper Resume
Headline : As a Beekeeper, ensured bee colonies had enough food, and provided pollination services by renting hives to orchards and farmsbreed queen bees.
Skills : Bee Biology, Beekeeping Records.
Description :
- Ran their own business and kept records, raised bees to produce honey, and pollinated crops: assembled beehives, using hand tools.
- Inserted honeycomb of bees into beehive or inducts wild swarming bees into a hive of prepared honeycomb frames.
- Placed screen plug-in hive entrance to confine bees and sets hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen.
- Forced bees from hive, using smoke pot or by placing carbolic acid soaked pad over hive to inspect hive and to harvest honeycombs.
- Scraped out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removed vermin, such as birds and mice.
- Collected royal jelly from queen bee cells for sale as a base for cosmetics and as health food.
- Forced bees from a hive using a smoke pot to inspect the hive and retrieve honey, arranged with sellers for purchases of honeybee colonies.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture
