School Bus Driver: Safe Routes, Flexible Hours

4 O School Services; McGregor (MN); Sur place; USD 39 000 - 52 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

4 O School Services is seeking a school bus driver to provide safe and orderly transportation for students on scheduled routes in Minnesota. The role requires pre-trip inspections, adherence to safety regulations, and responsible student management on board the bus.

You will learn routes, operate the vehicle safely, and communicate with dispatch and parents while maintaining on-time schedules and safe driving practices. Training and compliance with state and district policies are required.

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.
• Maintain a timely schedule.
• Maintain a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality when dealing with students, staff, and/or parent information.

Responsabilités

• 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

Connaissances

Follow directions

Student relations

Flexible

Rapport with students

Timeliness

Ethical behavior

Confidentiality

Description du poste

4 O School Services is seeking a school bus driver to provide safe and orderly transportation for students on scheduled routes in Minnesota. The role requires pre-trip inspections, adherence to safety regulations, and responsible student management on board the bus.

You will learn routes, operate the vehicle safely, and communicate with dispatch and parents while maintaining on-time schedules and safe driving practices. Training and compliance with state and district policies are required.