CORRECTIONAL OFFICER SERGEANT STATEWIDE

Requisition No: 855766 

Agency: Department of Corrections

Working Title: CORRECTIONAL OFFICER SERGEANT STATEWIDE

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 70033333 

Salary:  $50,336.00/Annually 

Posting Closing Date: 12/31/2025 

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FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

We Never Walk Alone

 

ADVERTISING TITLE: CORRECTIONAL OFFICER SERGEANT (STATEWIDE AD)

**OPEN COMPETITIVE**

 

Current FDC employees must apply in the internal advertisement.

This is a statewide advertisement for multiple vacancies. You will be able to select your preferred work location in the Security Background Questionnaire.

 

ABOUT FDC:

The Florida Department of Corrections is the 3rd largest state prison system in the country with over 150 facilities statewide and more than 22,000 staff members it’s the state’s largest agency. Becoming a correctional officer with FDC means you are joining a family of hardworking men and women who are dedicated to ensuring public safety throughout Florida.

 

Once you join the FDC, there are many career advancement opportunities that progress from entry level as a Correctional Officer to Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major and Colonel. From there, management positions include Assistant Wardens and Wardens. Correctional Officers can join special teams such as Rapid Response Teams, Crisis Response Team, Interdiction Units, K-9 Units, and many other special team opportunities.

 

Correctional Officer Sergeants are responsible for the supervision, protection, care, custody, control, and physical restraint, when necessary, of inmates at a correctional institution or facility and functioning as lead officer over two or more Correctional Officers assigned to inmate dormitories, confinement areas, work areas or work squads where assignment of a supervisor is not warranted; supervising and participating in the activities of the control room or the main gate of an institution; directing the activities of an entire facility on a shift. The incumbent in this position is considered to have regulatory responsibilities and is subject to the provisions of Chapter 60L-36, Florida Administrative Code.

 

COMPENSATION:  $50,336.00/Annually

 

BENEFITS:

• Paid Annual Leave, Sick Leave, and Holiday Pay

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