Corporate

The teams behind the scenes.

Nearly 3,000 corporate associates work behind the scenes to support our stores, our distribution centers, and our manufacturing plants. Most of them are based at our corporate headquarters in Lakeland, Florida, but several hundred are on field support teams that work in the five states in which we operate.

Departments

The major departments in our Corporate Offices include the following:

Contributions

Our Corporate teams are responsible for:

responding to the thousands of customers who email, write, phone, or fax us with compliments, questions, suggestions or complaints
evaluating hundreds of new products each year and letting customers know about the ones we decide to purchase or manufacture
overseeing our supply chain to monitor inventories in our distribution centers, in our stores, and on the road in our fleet of trucks
buying property and designing new stores
developing strategies to reduce losses or accidents incurred by our associates, our customers, and our company
designing and facilitating training programs
administering a wide array of associate benefit programs
helping to manage our vast technological resources, and
making sure our company upholds our legal and ethical obligations.

Locations

Our Corporate headquarters in Lakeland consists of our three main offices and several smaller facilities. We have divisional offices in Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Miami. We also have field staff in other cities.

Click here to learn what life is like in Lakeland; and discover Polk County, the county that surrounds Lakeland, by visiting here.

How to Apply

View our current openings in Corporate Offices, Distribution Centers and Manufacturing Plants, then apply for any that interest you. (If you are a current Publix associate, go to www.publix.jobs/support and then click YES to view openings.)

Please make sure you apply only for those openings that ask for qualifications that match your skills, knowledge, education and experience. There are computers at our Employment Offices in Lakeland and Atlanta for individuals who do not have personal access to a computer or hand-held device with internet access. If you would like to use a computer in our Lakeland office, please call 863-688-7407, ext. 32504, for an appointment. If you would like to use a computer in our Atlanta office, please call 770-995-0073, ext. 2153, for an appointment.

Publix Employment Office
1936 George Jenkins Blvd
Lakeland, FL 33815-3760
Map/Directions

Hours:
Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Publix Employment Office
445 Hurricane Trail
Dacula, GA 30019
Map/Directions

Hours:
Monday-Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 pm
Friday 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Why I Love Publix

Anthony,
Education and Training Development Supervisor

In the summer of 1980, I started as a part-time associate in the Housewares warehouse, viewing Publix as a temporary means to a greater end. No way did I intend to become a "Publix lifer."

However, 12 years later I was still at Publix, being promoted to Quality Improvement Facilitator in the Lakeland Dairy Processing Plant. I made some bad decisions in my personal life, which resulted in a lot of emotional pain and financial distress. Luckily, I worked for a Plant Manager who not only cared about me as his associate but made me feel as if I was a member of his own family.

He was a hard business man with extremely high expectations. Yet he also realized the importance of the human side of the equation. At the end of the each work day, he took the time to talk to me about life outside of Publix. He knew when to question and he knew when to listen. Most importantly, he knew how to let me figure it out on my own.

It was during this time that I realized what this company is all about. Publix is not in the grocery business....Publix is in the business of taking care of people. That's why 26 years later I'm glad to say that I'm still employed by Publix Supermarkets.

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