Bus Driver

Bus Driver

Under general supervision, drives a school bus to safely transport assigned public school students to and from school and field trip destinations in a timely manner.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Driving school buses to safely transport assigned public school students to and from school and field trip destinations in a timely manner, following all applicable laws, policies and regulations.
• Conducting safety inspections of the bus before starting the engine.
• Ensuring safety of children by securing wheelchairs, enforcing bus rules, etc.
• Making student seat assignments and maintaining student manifest; assisting with determining bus routes and completing maps.
• Completing and submitting daily mileage and student attendance records.
• Reporting to the county or school office of late arrival of a bus.
• Maintaining order, control, and plans for emergency situations or evacuations.
• Maintaining the cleanliness of assigned bus and submitting maintenance requests as needed.
• Performing clerical duties such as answering the phone, filing, sending faxes, making appointments for physicals, informing activity of buses to the highway department, assign routes and drivers, hand out keys and log books.
• Training other bus drivers, providing orientation sessions, preparing and submitting training verification reports, and issuing permits.
• Monitoring finances including but not limited to billing, submitting bill records to schools and the finance department.
• Monitoring student behavior and completing and submitting disciplinary forms as appropriate. Following through with telephone calls, parent conferences, police reports and court appearances as necessary.
• Interacting and communicating with the immediate supervisor and department staff, District staff, students, parents, etc.

Essential functions include:

• Physical requirements: Must be physically able to operate a school bus. Must be able to exert up to ten pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting and driving most of the time. Must be able to lift and/or carry weights of up to fifty pounds.
• Data conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal communications: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving directions to students and receiving assignments and/or directions from the supervisor.
• Language ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of policy and procedures manuals, maps, driver handbooks, regulations, etc. Requires the ability to prepare various logs and reports accurately. Requires the ability to speak with and before others with clarity, voice control and confidence.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagrammatic form, and to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations. Requires the ability to make routine independent judgments in absence of supervision and to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.
• Verbal aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow verbal and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational backgrounds.
• Numerical aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, and to determine time.
• Form/spatial aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape, and visually read various information.
• Motor coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes in operating motor vehicles.
• Manual dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, control knobs, buttons, switches, catches, etc. Must have moderate levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Interpersonal temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing in uncomfortable physical conditions and under stress when confronted with emergency situations or tight deadlines.
• Physical communications: Requires the ability to talk and/or hear (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear).

Training and education requirements include:

• Requires a high school diploma supplemented by a good driving record and required training, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities. Must possess valid state class "B" CDL driver's license with appropriate endorsements; may require specialized training for transporting handicapped passengers.

Performance evaluation criteria include:

• Job knowledge, quality of work, quantity of work, dependability, attendance, initiative and enthusiasm, judgment, cooperation, relationships, coordination of work, and safety.

Terms of employment include:

• 185 day work agreement. Salary and work year to be established by the district.

Florence 1 Schools does not discriminate in the selection, employment, or promotion of employees on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal or S.C. law.