Company description

Alvéole is a Montreal-based social company cultivating greener cities and more connected communities in 40 cities worldwide. The certified B Corp and 1% for the Planet member brings nature-based solutions such as honey bee hives, pollinator habitat, and bee-friendly gardens to buildings in cities and monitors their impact with technology, to help clients meet their ESG goals and be agents of positive environmental and social change. We’re a fast growing company that just closed a Series A equity investment round, and we’ve doubled our revenues every year since our founding in 2013.

Job description

Urban Beekeeping Assistant - Los Angeles

You’re interested in bees and would like to work producing local urban honey? Alvéole has a sweet deal for you! We’re presently looking for collaborators to help and assist our urban beekeepers harvesting our local honey in a city near you.

This is a temporary collaboration for a duration of 3 weeks at 37.5 hours, starting May 8th, 2023.

At Alvéole, we install beehives across cities and educate companies and schools about bees and beekeeping. We’re out to make people fall in love with bees, which in turn will make them fall in love with nature, and completely change their sense of responsibility towards the environment. We’re a B Corp founded in 2013, now active in Canada, USA and Europe.

Tasks:
Assist urban beekeepers in their harvest tasks:

• Accompany a beekeeper to harvest honey boxes from client bee hives located on rooftops and/or ground level sites
• Support client communications and provide for successful interactions while on client sites
• Assist beekeeper to load and unload honey boxes from trucks and onto pallets in the warehouse
• Assist in shipping logistics of honey boxes to centralized extraction facility

Requirements:

• Attention to detail
• Cleanliness
• Good team spirit
• Customer service
• Enjoys repetitive tasks
• Can handle heat and heavy lifting (40 pounds)
• Comfortable around bees

Deadline to Apply: April 17th, 2023

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $18.00 - $24.00

Application instructions

Deadline

April 17, 2023