Bus Mechanic

8.02 Mechanic

Reports to: Director of Transportation

Employment Status: Full Time, $23.18 per hour (8 hours a day)

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Qualifications:

• Valid driver's license with CDL endorsement; bus drivers' certificate.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• At least eighteen (18) years old.
• Sufficient skill with experience and/or training in automotive mechanics.
• Ability to instruct other employees, evaluate their work and offer suggestions for improvement.
• Ability to lay out work for others, give instructions and direct other mechanics in a firm, yet fair and friendly manner.
• Professional tact, diplomacy and presentation with administrators, staff, teachers, students, parents and the community.
• Conscientious and assumes responsibility for own work performance.
• Good health, high moral character and good attendance record.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and a sincere desire to aid all students.

General Description:

Maintain and provide a safe and reliable bus fleet which, in addition to emergency repairs, will include regular and periodic inspection and maintenance procedures to reduce frequency of repairs and lower cost of operation and maintenance.

Essential Functions:

• Ensure that safe and satisfactory equipment is maintained at all times.
• Establish and maintain a program of preventative maintenance.
• Schedule, service and inspect buses and other Board-owned motor vehicles on a regularly scheduled program making repairs as needed.
• Have access to and know how to use the owner/driver's manual and the service manual provided by the vehicle manufacturer.
• Responsible for the summer bus maintenance program and having all buses ready for the annual inspection by the Ohio Highway Patrol.
• Maintain an inventory of supplies and materials.
• Keep adequate cost records.
• See that the bus garage is clean, orderly and free of hazardous conditions.
• Promote good public relations with those with whom he/she works through personal appearance, attitude and conversation.
• Arrange time schedules.
• Assist in the training of prospective drivers.
• Assign duties to others as needed.
• Approve/disapprove of school buses for immediate use and approve repairs and replacement of parts as necessary.
• Take inservice training courses where possible and practical.
• Keep records and make reports as required on: All buses, garage equipment.
• Order all replacement parts for buses, chassis and gear lubrication, motor oil, anti-freeze, batteries, gas and oxygen, radiators, heater cores, gasoline, etc. using purchasing procedures, purchase order numbers, etc. as authorized by the transportation director.
• Oversee the record keeping for all buses and maintenance.
• Estimate damage to buses caused by accidents.
• Place in each bus first aid equipment, fuel sheets, etc.
• Responsible to go out on all bus breakdowns.
• Assist the general maintenance person when summer inspection is over or in emergency situations.
• Serve as custodian of all Board-owned garage equipment.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings.
• Help instill in students the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values.
• Conduct other duties related to the mechanic's duties as assigned by the transportation supervisor.

Additional Working Conditions:

• Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids and tissue.
• Occasional operation of a vehicle under inclement weather conditions.
• Occasional interaction among unruly children.
• The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or nonprescribed controlled substance abuse in the workplace throughout his/her employment in the District.

The Perrysburg Exempted Village School District Board of Education is an equal opportunity employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability.