Bus Driver (6 to 8 hours)

Bus Driver

To assist in providing safe transportation so that students may enjoy the fullest possible advantage from the school's curriculum and extracurricular program.

Essential Job Functions:

• Reports to school principal/assistant principal.
• Operates a school bus on assigned route(s) and schedules in order to provide safe, reliable and efficient transportation of students to and from school.
• Conducts pre-post trip inspections of the bus and reports defects.
• Obeys all traffic laws, school bus regulations and school system policies and procedures while operating the bus.
• Maintains respect and control of passenger.
• Responsible for care and cleanliness of bus.
• Submits required reports in a timely and accurate manner.
• Required to submit to random drug and alcohol screening.

Minimum Training and Experience:

Must have or be eligible to obtain NC school bus driver license and Asheville City Schools pocket card and also receive TSA certification.

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions:

Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to sit, stand, walk and drive. Must be able to lift boxes up to 50 pounds. Physical demand requirements are for Heavy Work.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read simple forms. Requires the ability to prepare time sheets and supply requisitions using prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in Standard English.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas, to add, subtract, divide and multiply.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using computers and other technology.

Manual Dexterity: Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors or shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under average levels of stress.

Physical Communications: Requires the ability to see, talk and hear.