Transportation Department - Open Route Driver

Transportation Department Open Route Bus Driver

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/Equivalent
• Twenty-one years of age
• Current driver's license, valid in Kentucky
• Physical examination Board-appointed physician
• Pre-employment drug and alcohol screening
• Criminal record check
• Driving history check
• No chargeable accidents within the last three years
• No drug or alcohol convictions within the last five years
• Exemplary attendance
• Commercial Driver's License (CDL); Class B; Endorsements: Passenger (P) & School Bus (S)
• Able to push, pull and lift 45 lbs. and bend at the waist, kneel and lift hands over head

Reports To: Transportation Director

Job Goal: To provide safe and efficient transportation so that students may enjoy the fullest possible advantage from the district's curriculum and extracurricular programs.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Observes all mandatory safety regulations for school buses and obeys all traffic laws.
• Drive open bus routes.
• Drive routes that are listed on daily board as assigned by dispatcher.
• Checks bus before each operation for mechanical defects and completes post-trip check at end of each route to ensure no students or belongings remain on the bus.
• Maintains discipline when students are on bus and reports undisciplined students to the proper authority.
• Clean substitute buses and maintain substitute bus log books.
• When all open routes are covered, assist office staff with various office duties.
• Assist service department on service runs and/or the pickup and delivery of buses.
• Assist route managers with bus route information updates. Prepare substitute driver route books.
• Assist open route driver trainers in the development of training components that will make up the annual eight-hour bus driver recertification modules.
• Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others.
• Understand and follow oral and written directions.
• Performs such other reasonable duties within the scope of the transportation department as may be assigned by the Director or the Assistant Superintendent.
• Attends work regularly and on time.

Terms of Employment: Compensation will be determined based on 183 contract days on the board approved ORD salary schedule. This position requires a 6-hour workday.

Evaluation: Performance will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the Board's Policy on Evaluation of Support Services Personnel. Adopted Oldham County Board of Education February 23, 2015 Revised: January 17, 2018, July 1, 2021, July 1, 2022