Apple is looking for someone to keep the coffee running across its Santa Clara Valley offices, under a job title that sounds more like a product codename than a facilities role.
The company posted a listing on September 28 for an “iCup Supply Specialist,” a full-time role in its Corporate Functions group based in Santa Clara, California. The posting says the hire will make sure employees have access to freshly brewed coffee in break rooms, and it opens with a line that has already circulated among Apple watchers: “At Apple, we take coffee seriously.”
As MacRumors’ Joe Rossignol reports, the specialist would work as a route operator, driving between sites to sanitize, clean, restock, and manage as many as 90 bean-to-cup machines. Day-to-day work includes refilling beans and supplies, cleaning food-contact surfaces, answering service calls, and coordinating with building managers. The role reports to an iCup Service Supervisor. MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris first flagged the listing over the weekend.
Pay is listed at $27.75 to $36.05 an hour. Minimum requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent, knowledge of safe food-handling practices, one to three years of route or delivery experience, similar time in customer service and warehouse or grocery work, a driver’s license with a clean record, and the ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
The “iCup” name is not new. Apple was already recruiting an “iCup Technician” by 2014, when TIME Magazine noted the internal coffee operation. More than a decade later, the team is still branded like a product line, even though the work is break-room logistics rather than a secret device.
The listing is on Apple’s jobs site for applicants who want the route.
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