Loss Prevention

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Protecting customers, associates, and company assets.

If you're looking for a career in a fast-paced and challenging field, then Loss Prevention may be for you. The Loss Prevention department is responsible for reducing losses to our customers, our associates, and our company. This involves a wide variety of functions, including training to increase associate awareness, enforcement of loss prevention policies, recovery of losses, and control of access to company facilities.

The Loss Prevention department investigates over 20,000 cases yearly ranging from vandalism to embezzlement, performs inventory and shrink assessments, provides uniform security and access control to 14 warehousing, distribution, and manufacturing facilities, and manages alarm systems in our stores.

Our Team Structure

The Loss Prevention department is comprised of four teams: Divisional, Corporate Clerical and Analytical, Corporate Management, and Safety.

Retail Divisional teams consist of divisional loss prevention managers, regional specialists and auditors, loss prevention officers, and administrative clerks who manage shrink, develop leads, and collect evidence. They also conduct investigations and develop and maintain relationships with all of our business units as well as law enforcement agencies, state attorneys, and other retailers. Additional responsibilities include:

alarm exception monitoring
shoplift prevention, detection, and apprehension, and
shrink management-internal and external investigations.

Support Divisional teams consist of loss prevention managers, facility supervisors, security supervisors and security officers who manage facility traffic control and grounds access. Other duties include:

support of corporate investigations and
support of organized retail crime investigations.

Corporate Clerical and Analytical teams control access to and oversee video monitoring of our facilities. They also compile and analyze point of sale data, shrink and other data trends, and conduct fraud investigations. Other duties include:

file management
report editing and
civil recovery.

Corporate Management teams play a role in motivating, teaching, and coaching associates on the best practices for loss prevention in all business areas. Responsibilities include:

the design, development and analysis of metrics
cross-functional project participation
strategic project management
policy influence and development
corporate investigations and
organized retail crime investigations.

The Safety team is responsible for fostering an appreciation for safety throughout the company. This team helps to:

develop tools and processes to identify and reduce injuries and exposure to unsafe conditions
provide education and training on such tools and processes and
provide advice on the use of Publix's safety improvement process.

Our Positions

Come join a team that protects its customers, associates, and assets. These are some of the positions in Loss Prevention.

Facility Security Supervisor
Fire Safety Coordinator
Loss Prevention Analyst
Loss Prevention Auditor
Loss Prevention Divisional Administrative Clerk
Loss Prevention Report Editor

Loss Prevention Specialist
Loss Prevention Specialist - Organized Retail Crime (ORC)
Safety Analyst
Safety Specialist
Security Officer

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

Publix Employment Office
445 Hurricane Trail
Dacula, GA 30019
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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

Josh,
Divisional Loss Prevention Manager

I started working for Publix in 2001 as a Loss Prevention Specialist. I can still remember my first day. I was scared, nervous, and unsure if I had made the right decision to leave my last job, all of the things that any normal person would think about. I had been with a major retail department store chain for almost 10 years before joining Publix, but it took only one day to realize that this is a family, not just a workplace.

In 2006 I was promoted to my current position as the Divisional Loss Prevention Manager for the Miami Division. My 6+ years of service here are short compared to many Publix associates. There are plenty who have been here more than 20 years with no plans to leave before retirement.

When you get up every morning and go to work, are you going someplace that you can't wait for the end of the day to come, or someplace that the day goes by too quickly? I think we spend most of our lives thinking that "the grass is greener on the other side", and sometimes we are disappointed because we find that is not true. However, the grass was greener for me at Publix and I believe that would be the same for you.

On many occasions I have sat in one of the Publix cafeterias eating my lunch when the Divisional Vice President, a Director, the Chief Financial Officer, sometimes even the President, will sit at the same table with you and ask you about your day, your family. It is the greatest thing. The first time I experienced this, I was amazed. At Publix we take pride in treating each other with dignity and respect, and it's a great feeling. One of my responsibilities is to protect the assets of Publix, including our associates, My Family!

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