Job Title: Bus Driver

Responsible to: Transportation Director, Assistant Superintendent for Business Qualifications:

• Must have interest in and empathy for children.
• Must possess comprehensive knowledge of driving safety and courtesy.
• Must know the rules, regulations, procedures and laws as they relate to the operation of a passenger vehicle.
• Must have the ability to understand and carry out written and oral instructions.
• Must have the ability to maintain effective pupil behavior management control over groups of children.
• Must have and maintain a satisfactory driving and criminal background that reflects a professional driver and which meets all contractual, local, state and federal requirements.
• Must be able to communicate well with people, including clear and understandable verbal skills.
• Must have the writing and arithmetic skills to accurately complete the assigned forms and reports.
• Must be able to drive all company vehicles, including full-size buses and standard shift vehicles, and operate lift equipment and securement devices.
• Must be able to read and interpret schedules and forms as well as read and use a map.
• Must be physically able to climb in and out of the school bus emergency door to evacuate the bus in an emergency.
• Must possess working knowledge of how to care for challenged students with diverse and special transportation needs.

Physical Requirements:

• Climbing Getting on and off the bus to assist challenged riders.
• Walking Pick up the vehicle in parking lot, walk in aisles on board bus, walk around bus for inspections.
• Pushing Closing door, pushing wheelchairs, opening emergency door.
• Reaching Open/closing door, checking fluids.
• Repetitive Motions Turning the steering wheel, shifting the transmission.
• Sitting Driving the vehicle.
• Talking Announcing streets, talking with passengers or on radio.
• Seeing Keeping aware of traffic conditions, stopped vehicles, traffic signals,

viewing color of traffic lights, inspecting vehicle, monitoring passengers.

• Hearing Listening to traffic sounds, emergency vehicles, passenger inquiries, monitor radio, detect mechanical problems.

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