About This Role
This school bus driver role involves safely transporting students on assigned routes, maintaining vehicle condition, and ensuring passenger well-being. It suits a responsible individual with strong driving skills and a commitment to student safety and district policies.
Responsibilities
- Operate assigned school buses on assigned trips in accordance with printed trip schedules and specified stop, sequence, and time schedules
- Board, transport, and discharge passengers
- Lift handicapped passengers and assist passengers into and out of the bus as required by Transportation Services Department policy and procedure
- Operate a mechanized wheelchair lift
- Develop via-directions and maintain and update current student and trip manifests
- Monitor the operational condition and safety of vehicle accessories of assigned buses on a daily basis
- Monitor gauges and sensors while operating a bus and report discrepancies to initiate corrective actions
- Practice non-aggressive, defensive driving techniques
- Monitor, conduct, and respond to communications with the Transportation Operations staff via two-way radio
- Maintain effective professional working relationships with pupils, parents, and district staff
- Enforce district policy and procedure in maintaining discipline on buses
- Render first aid to passengers on an emergency basis
- Maintain working knowledge of and comply with laws and regulations pertaining to pupil transportation
- Maintain cleanliness of windows and interior of bus on a daily basis
- Wash bus exterior
- Ensure familiarity with assigned trips before transporting passengers
- Dry-run new trips
- Periodically participate in mandated meetings and in-service programs during traditional and non-traditional workdays and work hours as required by the department
- Maintain and support standards of personal conduct and discipline in accordance with the current discipline policy approved by the Board of Education
- Perform other duties reasonably related to the job class
- Operate all types and sizes of school buses safely and on a specific time schedule in varied and complex topographical, weather, urban traffic, and rural conditions
- Exit from the rear of the bus to assist in emergency evacuations
- Communicate effectively and maintain cooperative relationships
- Show personality and character traits suited to supervision and care of children of multiple ethnicities and cultural values, behavioral, and physical handicaps
- Resolve conflict and maintain discipline of children on board buses
- Read and interpret maps, compass directions, schedules, student rosters and procedural instructions