Bus Driver

Department: Transportation • Reports to: Transportation Director • FLSA Status: Non-Exempt (Hourly) – Service Employees International Union Local 32 BJ District1201 • Schedule: Part Time, 10 Months

About the District

The Upper Moreland Township School District is an educational institution working in partnership with the community to provide all students with educational opportunities to develop knowledge, skills, behaviors, and habits of mind necessary for excellence and success as critical thinkers, as caring and confident individuals, and as contributing members of society. The District reflects the shared values of a diverse community of stakeholders and focuses on student success socially, emotionally, physically, and academically. Students will be provided with the foundation and skills necessary to excel in the exciting, complex, and interdependent world in which they live.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe and efficient transportation so that students may enjoy the fullest possible advantage from the District's curricular and extracurricular programs.
• Obey all traffic laws, specifically those pertaining to school buses.
• Observe all mandatory safety regulations for buses, including but not limited to child safety equipment (e.g., car seats, booster seats, safety vests).
• Maintain discipline when students are on the bus.
• Report disciplinary issues and concerns to the proper authority.
• Keep assigned bus clean.
• Check bus before each operation for mechanical defects.
• Notify the proper authority in case of mechanical failure or lateness.
• Discharge students only at authorized stops.
• Exercise responsible leadership when on out-of-district school trips.
• Transport only authorized students.
• Report all accidents and complete required reports.
• Enforce regulations against smoking and eating on the bus.
• Safely evacuate all passengers in an emergency vehicular situation, including passengers ranging from ages three to twenty-one, in adherence with the procedures outlined in the Transportation Employee Handbook.
• Perform other associated duties and responsibilities as needed.

Requirements

• High School diploma; preference given to those having a minimum of two years of college.
• Previous experience with children preferred.
• Valid Pennsylvania driver's license, School Bus Endorsement, Passenger Endorsement, and Commercial Driver's License or ability to pass all tests to obtain the same.
• Valid current state driver's license must be maintained at all times.
• Must meet requirements of DL-502A License Requirement.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and taste or smell.
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds with the ability to safely evacuate all passengers.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions.
• The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Additional Requirements

• Must successfully complete and maintain compliance with all federal and state background and criminal record check requirements.
• Candidate must adhere to all local, state, federal, and school code requirements for employment.
• The position holder must be able to perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
• It is the responsibility of the employee to inform the Director of Human Resources of any and all reasonable accommodations that will be required.