Beekeeping Trainee (Apiary Assistant) [Openings: 3]
Agriculture, Fishing & Forestry
K sh 36,000 – 48,000 gross / month
Openings: 3 Location: Nairobi – Karura fringe / Thigiri Forest edge Overview: Urban forest honey doesn’t just appear, it’s carefully nurtured at the hive level. As an Apiary Assistant, you’ll help inspect hives, add supers, and harvest honey under cool morning conditions, all while respecting the colony and maintaining calm, deliberate movements. Your work ensures both bee health and product quality. Our client values patience, attention to detail, and adherence to safety protocols. Extraction is food-grade, so smokers, strainers, and spotless surfaces are standard. You’ll learn to read hive conditions, plan interventions, and handle bees confidently while minimizing stress on the colonies. Daily tasks include monitoring brood and queen health, adding supers, harvesting, filtering, and bottling honey. Maintaining tidy apiaries, accurate records, and safe operations is critical, as your actions directly impact yield, hive survival, and contamination control. Work is seasonal and outdoors, so flexibility and readiness for weekend flows are key. Calmness, curiosity, and careful observation make the difference between average honey and premium urban forest batches. Over time, you’ll gain practical skills in hive management, extraction, and quality control, with a growth path from Apiary Assistant to Technician and eventually Honey Processing Lead, mastering both bee care and post-harvest operations. Key Responsibilities: - Inspect hives; check brood/queen; add supers. - Harvest and extract; filter and bottle. - Maintain records; keep apiary tidy and safe. Education & Experience: - Certificate Agriculture/Beekeeping short course; 0–1 year. Skills: - Calmness, attention to safety and cleanliness, ability to follow SOPs. KPIs: - Hive survival, honey yield, contamination incidents, and equipment care. Compensation (Kenya): - Base: KES 36,000–48,000. - Harvest share bonus: KES 1,500–3,000/harvest round. Estimates vary with sting tolerance, weekend availability during flows, and extraction hygiene discipline. Benefits: - Medical, PPE (suits), transport to sites. Growth Path: - Apiary Assistant → Apiary Technician → Honey Processing Lead.