Private Service Driver / Household Support
Position: Full-Time
Location: Southeast Florida
Schedule: Flexible; exact schedule to be determined. Candidate must have significant flexibility to accommodate the needs of the household, including weekends and holidays as needed.
Travel: Extensive domestic travel required, including extended stays at additional family residences.
Accommodations: Live-out at primary residence; accommodations provided when traveling or working at additional residences.
Position Overview
A private family is seeking a polished, dependable, and highly adaptable Private Service Driver / Household Support professional to provide transportation, personal assistance, and general household support to the Principal and family.
This position is ideal for someone who enjoys a varied role and takes pride in making day-to-day life easier for the people they support. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable behind the wheel, assisting with personal logistics, preparing for travel, maintaining vehicles and personal items, supporting entertaining, and stepping in wherever additional assistance is needed.
The family is looking for someone who is naturally attentive, anticipates needs, notices the details, and can confidently manage responsibilities without requiring constant direction. The ability to maintain a calm, polished demeanor while priorities shift throughout the day is essential.
This individual will work alongside an established household team and should be comfortable collaborating with other staff while independently managing their own responsibilities. A positive attitude, strong work ethic, discretion, and willingness to be flexible are critical to success.
Experience with fitness, wellness, personal training, yoga, or similar areas would be an added benefit.
Primary Responsibilities
Transportation & Daily Logistics
- Provide safe, professional, and discreet transportation for the Principal, family members, and guests.
- Transport the Principal to business meetings, appointments, airports, social engagements, restaurants, fitness activities, and other destinations.
- Assist with transportation logistics for family members and guests as needed.
- Monitor traffic, routes, timing, parking, and other details to ensure transportation runs smoothly.
- Adjust plans quickly when schedules or destinations change.
- Assist with luggage, packages, purchases, and other items during transportation.
Vehicle & Travel Readiness
- Maintain vehicles in immaculate, presentable condition.
- Coordinate routine servicing, detailing, inspections, repairs, and other automotive needs.
- Ensure vehicles are fueled, stocked, organized, and ready for use.
- Monitor vehicle supplies, equipment, chargers, and electronics.
- Coordinate with service providers, dealerships, detailers, and mechanics as needed.
- Prepare vehicles for extended trips and special travel requirements.
- Assist with transportation planning and logistics before and during travel.
Personal Assistance & Errands
- Handle a variety of personal errands and requests requiring driving, shopping, pickups, deliveries, and returns.
- Manage personal shopping and gift purchases with discretion.
- Coordinate dry cleaning, tailoring, specialty services, and other personal appointments.
- Assist with deliveries, shipments, and package management.
- Research and coordinate vendors or services as requested.
- Assist with last-minute requests and time-sensitive projects.
Travel & Personal Organization
- Assist with packing and unpacking for domestic and extended travel.
- Help organize clothing, accessories, personal items, and travel necessities.
- Ensure the Principal has everything needed for business, fitness, social engagements, and travel.
- Maintain organization of frequently used personal items.
- Coordinate travel-related pickups, deliveries, and other logistics.
- Be prepared for extended travel and changing itineraries.
Household & Entertaining Support
- Provide general support to the household team as needed.
- Assist with preparation for private dinners, gatherings, and special events.
- Support setup and breakdown before and after events.
- Assist with serving meals and beverages in both formal and informal settings.
- Help coordinate deliveries, caterers, and event-related vendors.
- Assist with light meal preparation when requested.
- Help ensure the residence is prepared and guest-ready prior to entertaining.
- Step in to assist other household staff during particularly busy periods.
Personal & Wellness Support
- Assist with maintaining the Principal's daily schedule and personal routines.
- Help coordinate fitness, wellness, and other personal appointments.
- Support established vitamin and medication routines as directed by the Principal and family.
- A background in personal training, yoga, fitness, or wellness is a plus and may be incorporated into the role as appropriate.
General Household Support
- Assist with miscellaneous household projects and tasks as needed.
- Communicate effectively with other household employees and outside vendors.
- Maintain awareness of household priorities and upcoming needs.
- Take responsibility for seeing assigned tasks through to completion.
- Be willing to assist outside of normal responsibilities when circumstances require.
- Maintain a high level of confidentiality regarding the family, household, schedules, travel, and personal affairs.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will be:
- Mature, polished, and professional.
- Highly dependable and trustworthy.
- Naturally service-oriented and attentive to detail.
- Proactive rather than reactive.
- Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision.
- Flexible and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
- Calm and composed when working in a fast-paced environment.
- Organized with strong follow-through.
- Discreet and respectful of the family's privacy.
- A strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Comfortable interacting with principals, family members, guests, vendors, and other household employees.
- A team player who understands the importance of supporting the overall household operation.
- Comfortable working weekends, holidays, and non-traditional hours when needed.
- Willing and able to travel extensively.
- Comfortable working in a high-service private household environment.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a private household, luxury hospitality, executive support, or comparable high-service environment.
- Previous experience as a professional driver, houseman, valet, personal assistant, butler, or similar role strongly preferred.
- Exceptional driving skills with a valid driver's license and clean driving record.
- Experience caring for and maintaining luxury or high-end vehicles.
- Experience with wardrobe care, packing/unpacking, dry cleaning, or personal household support preferred.
- Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality and exercise sound judgment.
- Stable employment history with excellent professional references.
- Must currently reside in Southeast Florida or be willing to relocate at their own expense.
- Must be comfortable with extensive domestic travel and extended stays at additional family residences.
- Must have significant schedule flexibility.
- Must be available to work weekends and holidays as needed.
- Non-smoker.
- Bilingual skills are a plus.
- Fitness, personal training, yoga, or wellness experience is a plus.