Safe School Bus Driver - Punctual Student Transport

4 O School Services; Cedar Lane Trailer Park (MN); On-site; USD 22,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

4 O School Services in Minnesota is seeking a reliable bus driver to transport students safely on assigned routes. You will perform pre-trip inspections, maintain discipline, and respond to emergencies while ensuring on-time performance.

The role requires operating a school bus, adhering to safety regulations, and communicating effectively with students, parents, and staff. Ability to handle dynamic situations and keep students secure is essential.

Qualifications

• Follow oral and written directions.
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with staff and students.
• Flexible, friendly, and good at establishing quick rapport with students.
• Work with frequent interruptions.
• Maintain a timely schedule.
• Maintain a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality when dealing with students, staff, and/or parent information.

Responsibilities

• Ensures the bus can be operated safely before driving and conducts pre-trip safety inspections as required by federal and state laws to include observing visual defects and checking operating systems to include brakes, horn, lights, emergency flashers, extended stop arms, and door-opening devices.
• Accurately and quickly learn routes, local area, and road systems
• Operates the vehicle safely over an assigned route, picking up and delivering only authorized students at assigned bus stops, and watches to ensure that no one hurrying for the bus is left behind.
• Keeps assigned time schedules, which may require driving during pre-day light and dusk periods, and makes every effort to be on time while ensuring safety.
• Hear and communicate orally when the bus is in motion. Communicate orally on a two-way radio with transportation dispatch and emergency services while the bus is in motion. Communicate effectively and positively with parents, students, staff and co-workers.
• Ability to maintain and attend to students’ behavior while in transit, keeping students in the correct seats, and enforces established bus rules to minimize distractions while driving
• Ensure proper use of safety equipment including seat belts, car seats, booster seats, star seats, safety harnesses, and wheelchairs.
• Reports undisciplined students in a timely manner to the proper authority and compiles written reports as requested in accordance with the bus driver handbook
• Conducts semi-annual bus evacuation drills as required by the Department of Education and implements evacuations as required in an emergency to include safely exiting the vehicle.
• Reports all accidents immediately, requesting police or ambulance service as needed; assists injured persons until services arrive; and completes required accident reports.
• Maintains cleanliness of vehicle to ensure safe operating condition
• Maintains an adequate fuel level before, during, and after all trips
• Understand and comply with 4.0 School services policies and district policies, as well as state and federal laws and regulations

Skills

Follow directions

Student safety focus

Punctuality

Communication

Adaptability

Ethical conduct

Job description

4 O School Services in Minnesota is seeking a reliable bus driver to transport students safely on assigned routes. You will perform pre-trip inspections, maintain discipline, and respond to emergencies while ensuring on-time performance.

The role requires operating a school bus, adhering to safety regulations, and communicating effectively with students, parents, and staff. Ability to handle dynamic situations and keep students secure is essential.