Beekeeper
azor beez llc
📍 Madera, CA · Madera County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26310-348041
- 📞 Phone: +1 (209) 631-9003
- ✉️ Email: azorbeez@gmail.com
Employer instructions
The employer will personally conduct telephone interviews and screen prospective applicants based on the qualifications and job requirements. Applicants may contact the employer directly by telephone seven (7) days a week, from 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM Pacific Time, to inquire about employment and be considered for available positions.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Beekeeper (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26310-348041
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Employees will maintain healthy beehives and manage honeybee colonies. Duties will include feeding and treating bees as needed; assembling beehives; inserting honeycomb containing bees into beehives; and placing hives in orchards, clover fields, or near other sources of nectar and pollen.
Employees will inspect and maintain colonies, remove parasites such as wax moth larvae, and remove vermin such as birds and mice. They will destroy excess queen bee cells when necessary to prevent colony division through swarming, replace queen bees, divide colonies when necessary, and replace old or damaged honeycombs.
Employees will also assist in producing queen bees and harvesting honey. Honey harvesting duties include removing honeycombs, uncapping harvested honeycombs, and extracting honey using appropriate tools and equipment.
The work may involve heavy lifting, including lifting honey supers and equipment weighing approximately 40 pounds, as well as frequent bending while inspecting, treating, and feeding bees. Employees may work longer hours during warmer months, outdoors in variable weather conditions, and occasionally at night as required by seasonal beekeeping operations.
The employer will provide protective equipment, including gloves and protective beekeeping suits, as well as bee smokers and other necessary hive tools.
The employer will comply with applicable California Agricultural Employment Order No. 14-2001 and all applicable federal and state H-2A employment requirements, including the applicable Adverse Effect Wage Rate requirements.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 3 months |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 50 lb |
Applicants must have at least three (3) months of familiarity with beekeeping operations. Applicants should have basic practical knowledge of identifying brood and queen bees, assisting with queen rearing, recognizing Varroa mites, feeding and treating colonies, splitting colonies, and making nucleus colonies (nucs). Familiarity with routine hive inspections and general colony maintenance is required.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 7:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Atwater, Ca) |
| Meals | Employer-provided housing will include a refrigerator and a working stove for employees to prepare and cook their own meals. The employer will provide transportation for employees once a week to the nearest grocery store to purchase groceries and other necessary food items. |
| Daily transportation | The employer will provide transportation at no cost to employees residing in employer-provided housing between the housing and designated work locations, with return transportation provided daily. Employees will be transported using a company vehicle, either a Dodge 5500 with a three-passenger seating capacity or a Ford Maverick with a four-passenger seating capacity, or another suitable company vehicle. All vehicles will be operated by the employer or an employee holding a valid Calif. license. |
| Travel to the job | The employer will purchase round-trip airline tickets for employees, providing inbound air transportation from their place of recruitment to California at the beginning of employment and outbound air transportation back home upon completion of the employment contract, in accordance with applicable H-2A transportation requirements. |
| Pay deductions | The following deductions will be made from the worker's pay: FICA (if applicable); Federal income tax withholding (if applicable); state and/or local tax withholding (if applicable); recovery of any loss to the Company due to damage or loss of equipment/tools; housing or furnishings (beyond normal wear and tear) caused by the worker (if any); -the employer will not deduct from the wage or require any reimbursement from an employee for any cash shortage, breakage, or loss of equipment, unless it can be shown that such shortage, breakage, or loss is caused by a dishonest or willful act, or by the gross negligence of the employee; medical insurance payments, if applicable, cash advances if applicable; and deductions expressly authorized by the worker in writing (if any). No deductions except those required or permitted by law will be made which bring the worker's earnings for any pay period below the applicable statutory federal or state minimum wage. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26310-348041 |
|---|---|
| Posted | Nov 6, 2026 |