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General Services

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Do you love navigating our beautiful County and interacting with colleagues? Join our high-performing team as a mail courier! Sort and process incoming and outgoing mail and interoffice mail and have the opportunity to visit our various offices and facilities. Apply today!

• Operate a county vehicle, picking up, delivering, sorting, distributing, and processing mail, packages, and boxes from County departmental facilities.

• Pick up printing orders, payroll, petty cash, and checks, and deliver them to County offices/buildings.

• Pick-up mail from the post office consists of signing for express, certified, and registered mail.

• Ability to lift, carry, and deliver heavy boxes, packages, and bags of all sizes.

• Operate mail processing and postal equipment, including all mailroom and business equipment.

• Sort, prepare, and process mail, packages, and boxes and deliver them to the proper location.

• Prepare forms, labels, and proper paperwork for outgoing mail, including presorted, certified, registered, FedEx, and UPS.

• Communicate effectively and appropriately providing excellent customer service and answering any questions requiring specialized knowledge of the mailroom and post office.

Work Hours: Monday – Friday, 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent education.

• One (1) year of job-related experience, c lerical, administrative, and computer experience.

• -OR- One (1) year of advanced schooling may substitute for one (1) year of experience.

• A valid Florida driver’s license or ability to obtain by start date.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of post office and mail room procedures.

• Ability to drive a van.

Physical Demands: Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Subject to Passing Substance Screening: This position is subject to passing a pre-employment substance screening. An applicant who fails to pass a required drug screening test shall be disqualified from employment in any class for a period of five (5) years.

CJIS Clearance: **The successful candidate will be subject to an extensive background check(s) as a part of the hiring process.

About Everything Else

Starting Pay Rate: $18.00/hr

Benefits:

• Enjoy great benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Florida Retirement System (FRS) and many, many more! Starting January 2024, choose one of three great medical plans, including one with a $0 premium option, with completed preventative visits!

• For more information about employee benefits, please click this link or visit SCGov.net (https://www.scgov.net/government/human-resources/employee-health-and-benefits) for additional information.

• Utilize our award-winning wellness program including free gyms and classes at multiple Sarasota County Government locations.

• Enjoy 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days and 16 paid vacation days in the first year of full-time employment with increasing accrual rates with years of service. (That adds up to a possible 30 days off in your 1st year!)​​

A different blend of voices prompt better conversations, choices and results for everyone. Sarasota County – Many Voices, One Team.

We celebrate and value the experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, talents and strengths that make us different.

Our vision is to attract, develop, retain and engage a talented workforce broadly representative of the citizens and communities we serve. To further value creativity, innovation, collaboration and great customer service – internally and externally.

A job applicant with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the application/selection process is requested to make known the need for an accommodation to Human Resources or appropriate county staff members. For assistance with the application, please call 941-861-5353.

Sarasota County prohibits discrimination in all services, programs or activities. View the complete policy at scgov.net (keywords: ADA Compliance).

Sarasota County Government is a Tobacco-Free/Drug-Free Workplace.

Do you like leaving things better than you found them? We serve the greater good! Our team is here to make Sarasota the premier community to live, work and play!

Sarasota has 37 miles of award-winning beaches, over 80 parks and 100 golf courses, and is known as the cultural capital of Florida with museums of art, theaters, an aquarium, botanical gardens and the annual international film festival. Unsurpassed beauty, rich cultural offering, diverse educational opportunities, wide-ranging recreational possibilities make Sarasota a great place to live and work!

We believe in work-life balance with a generous leave plan.

“US News & World Report: Sarasota is No. 1 in Florida and No. 18 in the country for best place to live.”

We need YOU to help create wonderful experiences for residents and vacationing guests enjoying Sarasota! Apply today!