Bus Driver

Position Type:
Transportation/Bus Driver
Date Posted:
9/22/2023
Location:
Transportation Department
Closing Date:
Continuously hiringFLSA CLASSIFICATION: Non-exempt, hourly employee
WORK DAYS: 183 days (those days when students are scheduled to attend school)
STANDARD HOURS PER DAY: 4 hours per day
WORK YEAR: The work year for the Bus Driver includes all days when students are scheduled to attend school, plus 1 additional day for summer driver training.
SALARY SCHEDULE & BENEFITS: The Bus Driver is paid on the "Bus Driver" salary schedule, and is eligible for benefits on the "Support Staff" benefits schedule. Starting pay $25.14 per hour.
REPORTS TO: The Bus Driver reports to the Director of Transportation.
SUPERVISES: The Bus Driver supervises the Bus Monitor, if a Bus Monitor is assigned to the Bus Driver's bus.
GENERAL SUMMARY OF DUTIES:
Under general direction, the Bus Driver is to daily operate an assigned school bus on an assigned transportation route for the school district. Employees in this classification are responsible for the safe transportation, loading and unloading of students to and from destinations, and ensure all bus activities support the safety and welfare of all persons. Work may be performed in conjunction with bus monitoring personnel, and includes ensuring appropriate securing of students and the provision of required assistance to students with special medical needs. Performs related work as directed.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Provides daily school bus transportation for district students to and from destinations, to include field trips and special events.
2. Performs pre- and post bus inspection activities to ensure proper operating conditions, adherence to prescribed Department of Transportation standards, and compliance with proper safety standards.
3. Maintains bus evacuation plan and coordinates bus evacuation activities as appropriate.
4. Transports students according to established routing sheets; ensures maintenance of periodic routing updates.
5. Monitors daily school bus activities to ensure proper student conduct at all times, and adherence to appropriate disciplinary controls.
6. Maintains attendance records, seating charts, disciplinary documentation, and updated student information; communicates via radio dispatch as appropriate.
7. Maintains safe driver designation and applicable physical and dexterity standards.
8. Ensures the safe loading and unloading of students to and from destinations, to include operation of specialized equipment for attending to students with special needs, i.e., wheel chair lifts and tie-downs, toddler/infant seats and seat belts.
9. Performs routine cleaning and bus maintenance activities; maintains neat and orderly appearance, to include assigned uniforms.
10. Conducts re-fueling activities, to include maintaining assigned fuel use logs.
11. Reports any perceived or potential school bus defects in a time efficient manner to appropriate supervisor of fleet maintenance personnel.
12. Establishes and maintains effective communications and working relationships with bus monitors, district personnel, school officials, and parents.
13. Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by Warren.
14. With the support of the district, attends training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
15. Responsible for timely and accurate information maintained as part of the job responsibilities.

NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
While the following tasks are necessary for the work of the department, they are not an essential part of the purpose of this position and may also be performed by other department members:

1. Performs related duties as directed.

ENTRY-LEVEL REQUIREMENTS:
1. Pass the required Expanded Criminal History Check and Expanded Child Protection Index check.
2. EDUCATION/TRAINING: High school diploma or GED is required.
3. EXPERIENCE: Must have at least 5 years of satisfactory experience as a licensed driver.
4. CERTIFICATIONS &/OR LICENSES: Requires the ability to obtain and maintain a valid Indiana commercial driver's license class "B" with passenger and school bus endorsements.
5. OTHER: Ability to perform the essential functions, meet the performance aptitudes, and fulfill the physical/sensory/environmental requirements of the job (with or without reasonable accommodations) is required.
PERFORMANCE APTITUDES:

1. Data Utilization: Requires the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data and/or information. Includes exercising discretion in determining data classification, and in referencing such analysis to established standards for the purpose of recognizing actual or probable interactive effects and relationships.
2. Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others on how to apply procedures and standards to specific situations.
3. Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of assigned passenger vehicles, and safety restraint and wheelchair lift devices.
4. Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information.
5. Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages.
6. Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.
7. Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

Physical REQUIREMENTS: Tasks involve the regular and, at times, sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and that may involve the lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials (20-50 pounds).
Sensory Requirements: Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination. Some tasks require oral communications ability.
Environmental Factors: Tasks risk potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions when performing transportation duties, such as temperature and noise extremes, odors, humidity, vibrations, traffic hazards, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
Attachment(s):

• 2023 OVERVIEW OF BENEFITS FOR SUPPORT STAFF.pdf