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Requisition No: 882982 

Agency: Agency for Persons with Disabilities

Working Title: FOOD CONTROL SPECIALIST - 67011633 - SUNLAND - DRIVER - GENERAL SERVICES

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 67011633 

Salary:  $34,760.00 - $38,235.86 

Posting Closing Date: 09/09/2026 

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AGENCY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

 POSITION: Food Control Specialist - Career Service

POSITION NUMBER: 67011633

OPEN COMPETITIVE OPPORTUNITY

This posting may close before the posted closing date.

CANDIDATE POOL: Future vacancies may be filled from this advertisement for a period of up to six months.

The Benefits of Working for the State of Florida

Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for eligible employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits, including:

• Annual and Sick Leave benefits.
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year.
• State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options.
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions (For more information, please click www.myfrs.com).
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Tuition waivers.
• And more! For a more complete list of benefits, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com.
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave.

The Agency seeks team members who demonstrate the qualities of being humble, hungry, and smart and lead others to embody the same. This entails lacking excessive ego, sharing credit, being self-motivated, and exercising good judgment and intuition regarding the subtleties of group dynamics. 

This position with APD will serve staff and management across the Agency. Your work will impact the workplace culture, our community, and the population we serve as we continuously strive to achieve the Agency’s mission.

*Responses to the qualifying questions are required and must be verifiable based on your submitted application, and “see resume” will not be considered an acceptable response.

SALARY RANGE

$34,760.00 - $38,235.86 Annually                       $1,336.92 - $1,470.61 Bi-weekly

The hiring salary may exceed the maximum posted salary.  

Position Summary

Delivers food trays and snacks to resident houses (approximately 18) for each meal in accordance to predetermined time and route schedule.  Lifts, carries and places heavy (approximately 42#) food trays and dishes in the transport from food service to houses.  Retrieves soiled dishes and trays from all houses, as well as any of food service dishware that may have been left at the houses’ kitchen.  Assist in the preparation of trays and load on to the food truck for delivery and whatever task deemed necessary to keep Sunland delivery system operating on a daily and ongoing basis.

The Work You Will Do 

Assist in cleaning and sanitizing the food service department, this is to include but is not limited to washes, dries and fold laundry on a daily and ongoing basis.

Assists in washing pots and pans following established procedures using a 3-compartment sink on a daily and ongoing basis.

Is responsible for cleaning and sanitizing floors, tray machine, food truck and hall after each meal.  Ensures back docks are kept cleaned at all times along with the pavement and grounds surrounding the truck area where the trucks are parked on a daily and ongoing basis.  Delime tray machine once a week on Tuesdays.

Safely drives assigned motor vehicle.  Totally responsible for assuring maintenance of vehicles and mule, with daily safety check of lights, brakes, oil level and gas fill-up.  Ensures vehicle logs are completed daily and turned into the store’s supervisor by the 3rd of each month.  Trucks are to be filled with gasoline every Friday afternoon before end of working shift.

Maintain a current valid driver license.

Exhibits a positive work attitude in working with all people, residents, co-workers, management, and community on a daily and ongoing basis.  This includes completing all assigned staff training deemed mandatory on a daily and ongoing basis. 

Performs other related duties as required.

Maintain timesheet, ensuring accuracy and submit timely in accordance with policy and procedure.

Completes all required training.

Minimum Qualifications

• Valid driver’s license

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge of the rules of the road.

•     Knowledge of the procedures for operating a variety of motor vehicles.

•     Skill in operating a motor vehicle.

•     Ability to perform light maintenance and service work.

•     Ability to communicate effectively.

•     Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

Additional Information

Profile Completion

To qualify for this position, applicants must complete all fields in the Candidate Profile, including their work history with the month and year. 

Resumes and other documentation can be attached to provide additional information but will not replace the required completed Candidate Profile.

Retiree Notice

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be suspended or voided, and you will be required to repay all benefits received depending upon your retirement date.

Direct Deposit Program

As a condition of employment, a person appointed to a position in the State Personnel System is required to participate in the Direct Deposit Program.  Rather than receiving a paper paycheck, your funds will be deposited directly into your account at your financial institution. This will be accomplished by Electronic Funds Transfer. Banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions are eligible to accept such deposits. Retirement funds are also required to be in the Direct Deposit Program.

Background Screening Requirement

It is the policy of the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities that applicants for employment undergo Level 2 employment screening in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, Florida Statutes, as a condition of employment or being permitted to serve as a volunteer.

No applicant for a designated position will be employed or permitted to volunteer until the Level 2 screening results are received, reviewed, and approved by the Agency.

Level 2 background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for Statewide criminal and juvenile records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Federal criminal records checks through the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and may include local criminal records checks through local law enforcement agencies.

Pursuant to S. 110.1127(1), Florida Statutes, this position requires a background investigation, including fingerprinting.

Applicants for employment will also be screened through the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse. For additional information, please visit the AHCA Background Screening Clearinghouse.  

APD only hires U.S. citizens and those lawfully authorized to work in the U.S. APD participates in the U.S. government’s employment eligibility verification program (E-Verify), which electronically confirms an employee’s eligibility to work in the U.S. after completing the employment eligibility verification form (I-9).

All applicants should complete the online application process. If you need assistance applying for this position, please call the People First service center at 1-877-562-7287. 

Responses to the qualifying questions are required to be considered for this position. Answers to the qualifying questions must be verifiable based on your submitted application.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

Recruiting Contact: 

Lizzie Holland 

Human Resource Specialist/Recruitment Manager 

Sunland Human Resources 

Division of Administration and Facility Operations 

Email: lizzie.holland@apdcares.org 

 3700 Williams Drive  

Marianna, FL. 32446 

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.