Bus Driver in Training
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Job Summary
Position is responsible for operating a school bus and transporting schoolaged children and other authorized personnel safely and efficiently over specified routes to and from schools and various activities. Position conducts pretrip inspections; observes safety regulations and policies; enforces student discipline on the bus; and performs related work.
Essential Duties
- Communicates with the dispatcher or Area Transportation Supervisor for any changes in normal duties or new student passengers including communicating orally while the bus is in motion when needed.
- Ensures the bus can be operated safely before driving and conducts pretrip safety inspections as required by federal and state laws to include observing visual defects and checking operating systems to include brakes horn lights emergency flashers extended stop arms and dooropening devices.
- Operates the vehicle safely over an assigned route picking up and delivering only authorized students at assigned bus stops and watches to ensure that no one hurrying for the bus is left
- Keeps assigned time schedules which may require driving during preday light and dusk periods and makes every effort to be on time while ensuring safety.
- Obeys all traffic laws and transportation practices as outlined in the CDL manual Bus Driver Handbook School Board Policy and local
- Observes all mandatory safety regulations for school buses and keeps all emergency exits clear of obstructi
- Secures wheelchairs car seats and other restraining devices on the bus as
- Maintains student discipline on the bus and enforces rules governing student conduct including through oral communication when the bus is in motion.
- Reports undisciplined students to the proper authority and compiles written reports as requested in accordance with the bus driver handbook and the Students Rights and Responsibilities Han
- Conducts semiannual bus evacuation drills as required by the Department of Education and implements evacuations as required in an emergency to include safely exiting from the rear of the school bu
- Reports all accidents immediately requesting police or ambulance service as needed; assists injured persons until services arrive; and completes required accident
- Notifies the proper authority in cases of mechanical failure safety deficiencies when off schedule or other incidents.
- Regulates heating cooling and ventilating equipment provided on the bus for the comfort of passenger
- Drives students and teachers on field trips extracurricular activities and other special events often in evenings and at night as
- Exercises responsible leadership and appropriate behavior when on outofdivision school trip
- Returns the bus to the assigned bus lot performs a final inspection and secures the bus according to proce
- Participates in all required
- Submits to drug testing when
- Maintains a commercial drivers license as required by the State Department of Transportation and maintains Red Cross First Aid/CPR certifi
- Hear and communicate orally when the bus is in motion. Communicate orally on a twoway radio with transportation dispatch and emergency services while the bus is in motion. Communicate effectively and positively with parents students staff and coworkers.
- Models nondiscriminatory practices in all.
(These are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar related or a logical assignment to the position.
Other Duties
- Keeps the assigned bus
- Maintains an assigned seating
- Reports all safety violations to include coworkers/personnel suspected of drinking alcohol or under the influence of (to include overthecounter while working.
- Performs any other related duties as assigned by the Area Transportation Supervisor or other appropriate administrator.
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge Skills and/or Abilities Required)
- Must possess a high school diploma or GED.
- Must possess a valid commercial drivers license to operate a school bus or must acquire one prior to the completion of the divisions classroom training course.
- Must possess basic first aid and CPR certification or must acquire such prior to the completion of the divisions classroom training course.
- Must possess an excellent driving record in compliance with division standards excellent driving skills and must successfully complete the school divisions bus driver training course.
- Must possess a good knowledge of procedures and federal/state laws governing the safe operation of a school bus prior to the completion of the divisions training course.
- Must possess knowledge of or the ability to accurately and quickly learn local street and road systems.
- Must possess knowledge of or the ability to accurately and quickly learn how to properly secure a wheelchair car seat and other restraining devices on a school bus.
- Must possess the ability to maintain student discipline and ensure that student behavior is not a distraction to safe driving.
- Must possess the ability to recognize and report any unsafe act or condition.
- Must remain in compliance with state/division regulations regarding the use of controlled substances and alcohol as applied to school bus drivers.
- Must meet the mandated physical and mental requirements established by the state and the US Department of Transportationthe school division is not permitted to employ individuals that do not meet these standards.
- Must be capable of working independently and possess the ability to understand and follow through on oral and written instructions.
- Must possess the ability to communicate effectively and positively with students parents and faculty.
For a complete job description visit Newport News Public Schools prohibits discrimination on the basis of race color religion sex ethnicity national origin age disability pregnancy and childbirth marital status or any other basis prohibited by law. (Reference: School Board Policies 23344 and 46.
Employment Type
Full-Time
