Beekeeper - Lyndhurst

Travel Requirements: This role involves regular travel and work between our Head Office in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, and our hotels across the south coast. All applicant must hold a UK driving licence. Important: All applicants must have the full, existing right to work in the UK., We are looking to grow our team with the position of a Beekeeper. Reporting to our Group Apiary Manager, As Beekeeper you will be responsible for managing several honey production colonies. You will raise and care for our honeybee colonies focusing on our main objective - honey production and maintain healthy, pest free bees.,

• Colony maintenance - At our Head Office and occasionally at our hotels.
• Nuc production.
• Manoeuvre of colonies on crops.
• Honey extraction & bottling - every 3-4 weeks in bee season.
• Frame building.
• Transport of hives between our sites across the Southwest.
• Conduct routine hive inspection & maintain hive records.
• Apiary maintenance.
• Occasional collection and deliveries.
• Candle making - winter months.
  
  This role is perfect for someone who enjoys variety in their day. A genuine passion for food and honey is a must, plus excellent attention to detail. This role requires a can-do attitude and sociable approach, plus the ability to work independently as/when required. Experience in beekeeping, bee health and honey production is a essential, please note you will not be considered if you do not have experience with Beekeeping. You must have excellent knowledge of plant and animal biology and the physicality to manoeuvre heavy equipment. Carpentry skills and previous experience building frames is advantageous.
  
  THE PIG Hotels are committed to doing the little things brilliantly. Boutique hoteliers with decades of experience behind us and an obsessive commitment to what we believe in. We class ourselves as restaurants with rooms, our Kitchen Gardens are at the heart of what we do. We have an obsessive commitment to home-grown and local produce, and we celebrate the seasons. This means we use only the freshest and most authentic ingredients. Our kitchen gardeners work hand-in-hand with our chefs to create menus bursting with simple British garden food. What we can't grow or rear ourselves, we source from the local area. This is the foundation of our 25-mile menu.
For our honey production, we have a small team of beekeepers who collectively manage between 80 and 120 honey production colonies, working from our Head Office in Lyndhurst, Hampshire.