Bus Driver

River Delta Unified School District

Bus Driver

Definition: To drive the school bus while transporting students, and to perform a variety of tasks relative to assigned areas of responsibility.

Supervision Received and Exercised: Receives direction from the Transportation Director/Transportation Supervisor.

Essential and Marginal Function Statements:

Essential Functions:

1. Perform safety checks on buses; identify defects and document on appropriate form.
2. Drive School Buses to designate route according to established time schedules; transport students on field trips as assigned.
3. Supervise the conduct of students while on the school bus; review the bus rules and appropriate student behavior; issue citations as necessary.
4. Help students requiring special assistance, including operating wheelchair lifts and restraints.
5. Conduct bus evacuation drills; review rules, regulations and procedures with students.
6. Maintain trip records; count the students; document any unusual occurrences.
7. Clean interior windows of buses.

Marginal Functions:

1. Administer first aid.
2. Participate in parent conferences.
3. Within the Transportation Department, perform minor custodial and maintenance functions as necessary; assist other transportation staff as necessary.

Qualifications:

Knowledge of:

• Operational characteristics of school buses.
• First aid methods of techniques.
• Pertinent, Federal, State and local laws, codes and regulations.
• Standard safety precautions.

Ability to:

• Read maps.
• Operate a school bus.
• Perform preventive maintenance checks on school buses.
• Supervise pupils and implement discipline as necessary.
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Maintain audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for successful job performance.
• Maintain the mental capacity to make sound decisions and demonstrate intellectual competencies.

Experience and Training Guidelines:

Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

Experience:

Experience operating buses as desirable.

Training:

Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade and successful completion of California school bus driver certification.

License or Certificate:

Possession of a California School Bus Driver Certificate and Class B-P driver license issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Working Conditions:

Environmental Conditions:

Field environment; drive a school bus, exposure to petroleum chemical sand fumes.

Physical Conditions:

Essential and marginal functions require maintaining physical condition necessary for sitting, standing, stopping or bending for prolonged periods of time; light to moderate lifting; operating motorized vehicles.