Transportation Coordinator

Salary Range: $21.00 $25.00 per hour (Based on experience)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Overview

The Transportation Coordinator is a critical link in our educational mission ensuring every student has a safe reliable and efficient journey to and from school. We are looking for a highly organized empathetic professional to maintain bus routes foster strong relationships with families and support our team of dedicated drivers.

Whether you are an experienced logistics professional or a motivated individual looking to transition into a public service career this role offers the opportunity to manage complex operations while serving the heart of our community.

Key Responsibilities

Routing & Logistics

• Strategic Planning: Design and adjust school bus routes to prioritize student safety and time efficiency.

• Specialized Transport: Serve as a liaison for special education transportation needs ensuring all students receive required accommodations.

• Resource Allocation: Assign drivers and vehicles to daily routes and extracurricular field trips ensuring 100% schedule adherence.

Communication & Leadership

• Community Liaison: Act as the primary bridge between parents school administrators and the transportation department to resolve inquiries and concerns.

• Operational Oversight: Open the dispatch office manage daily driver attendance and provide leadership in the absence of the Director.

• Conflict Resolution: Handle complaints service interruptions and accidents with professional composure and a focus on prompt resolution.

Administration & Safety

• Data Management: Maintain accurate student transport records and utilize routing software to track performance.

• Driver Support: Assist with driver training programs and monitor equipment needs to ensure fleet safety standards are met.

• Adaptability: Maintain a positive attitude and remain flexible as district needs schedules and safety regulations evolve.

Qualifications & Essential Skills

• Strong Communicator: Ability to share information clearly and confidently with a diverse audience (parents students and staff).

• Emotional Intelligence: High level of self-awareness and empathy; able to remain calm and respectful during high-pressure situations.

• Organizational Excellence: A logistics mindsetable to prioritize tasks and meet strict deadlines in a fast-paced office.

• Relationship Builder: Proven ability to create trust so that parents and school staff feel valued and supported.

• Technical Aptitude: Comfortable learning and navigating school-specific routing software and database systems.

Why Join DS Bus Lines

• Meaningful Work: Directly impact the daily lives of students and families in our community.

• Professional Growth: Gain experience in public sector administration logistics and personnel leadership.

• Competitive Compensation: $21.00 $25.00/hr

Beacon Mobility is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race color sex religion sexual orientation national origin disability genetic information pregnancy or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal state or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization including hiring recruiting promotion termination layoff recall leave of absence compensation benefits training and apprenticeship. Beacon Mobility makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications merit and business needs at the time.

DS Bus Lines is a family-oriented company that focuses on our core values of family respect service and safety. We understand how important of a responsibility transporting children is and we take that role very seriously. We strive to create mutual respect and trust with school districts so that we can work together to provide the best possible service for students and parents.