Assistant Depot Manager

clevelandmetroschools; Cuyahoga Heights (OH); Sur place; USD 69 000 - 93 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District in Ohio is seeking an Assistant Depot Manager of Transportation Operations to oversee a complex transportation routing system for our 39,000 students. The role requires strong operations and administrative skills to support the district’s transportation goals and improvements.

Reporting to the Director of Transportation, this exempt position manages about 150 transportation staff, ensures performance measures are met, and provides professional

Description du poste

Position Type:

Administration and Professionals

Date Posted:

2026-10-26

Location:

Cuyahoga Heights Depot

ABOUT CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students.

CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.

Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop.

In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.

BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES

The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school. BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Location: Administration or As Assigned

Reports to: Depot Director, Transportation

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Band: 7

Compensation: $68,891.00 - $93, 003.00

Responsibilities

• Manages approximately 150 transportation staff including Bus Drivers and various other classified staff to consistently deliver high impact transportation services so that our schools are positioned to achieve student growth
• Assures that the performance measures for the department are met and evaluates team members based on the metrics as well as ability to perform all functions of their roles
• Recommends reassignments and disciplines to ensure the strongest team is providing our transportation services
• Monitors bus routes and makes recommendations around changes as appropriate
• Investigates any transportation accidents or incidents
• Works with the Director to further develop the department procedure manual
• Be responsible for the daily coverage of routes and provide backup coverage for uncovered routes due to illness, timing conflicts, etc.
• Maintain in a timely manner attendance, accident, tardiness, disciplinary and other records on each driver assigned
• Investigate daily and / or resolve complaints or problems concerning his / her drivers as directed
• Submit to the director any investigations of transportation accidents and incidents according to established guidelines and procedures
• Prepare detailed and concise accident and incident reports and submit to appropriate personnel
• Apply progressive discipline procedures for attendance, tardiness, absences, accidents, etc.
• Monitor radio logs for incidents, accidents, breakdowns, etc.
• Monitor the daily call-off sheet and submit operations reports daily
• Conduct conferences with individual drivers or groups as needed
• Manage Medicaid billing reports if needed
• Provides professional development for bus drivers
• Hears grievance and disciplinary hearings for the Transportation Department
• Understands and cultivates relationships with the community including, principals, the three unions representing transportation employees, business, families, and Cleveland Me

The Assistant Depot Manager of Transportation Operations will manage a complicated transportation routing system for our 39,000 students in the District. This position provides an individual with superior operations and administrative skills the opportunity to serve as a key contributor to the success of the Cleveland Plan. As the Assistant Manager of our Transportation function, the Manager will also serve as a member of the operations team to ensure our students have their baseline needs supported everyday as they come to school. The Assistant Depot Manager, Transportation reports to the Director of Transportation.