Bus Driver
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: previously applied under Req. 130 etc. Also remove EEO etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Keep substantive info.
Let's parse content:
Job Description: "Previously applied under Req. 130..." that's boilerplate, remove.
"The Student Bus Operator is responsible for attending and successfully completing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) bus operator training course where they are taught to operate WMATA commercial passenger buses on scheduled routes across the metropolitan area and provide courteous and professional customer service to passengers. The Student learns and adheres to all safety and traffic rules, company regulations, policies, and procedures to ensure the well-being of WMATA customers, employees, public, and themselves. Students must demonstrate their acquired skills and knowledge through the successful passing of examinations and practical demonstrations. This is a safety sensitive position subject to the rules and regulations of WMATA’s Drug and Alcohol Policy."
That's about the role.
Then "Principal Job Duties" list: bullet points.
Let's extract duties:
- Successfully completes Bus Operator and CDL training program, which includes classroom study, on-route training, driving experience, and resources (including the Bus) necessary to take and pass the state CDL examination. Student who already have a CDL License are not required attend the CDL portion of the training.
- Learns to perform complete pre- and post-operation inspection of the assigned vehicles in accordance with WMATA policy to ensure tire pressure, fluid levels, safety equipment, gauges, and controls are in proper working order. Reports any safety issues on standard reports.
- Follows all required safety policies and procedures.
- Learns to safely operate a passenger bus along designated routes; read route descriptions and provide each customer with stellar customer service.
- Learns to continuously monitor the condition of assigned vehicles to ensure they are operationally ready at all times.
- Learn to complete and submit accident and incident reports in accordance with established guidelines.
- Other Duties N/A (skip)
- Safety Sensitive: Maintains and promotes awareness and accountability with safety policies and procedures while performing job functions. Promotes a positive safety culture and encourages reporting of safety concerns consistent with our Agency Safety Plan, other regulatory requirements within the Safety Management System and just culture principles.
- Functions Disclaimer: The functions listed are not intended to limit specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Nor is it intended to limit in any way the right of managers and supervisors to assign, direct and control the work of employees under their supervision. (Probably boilerplate; maybe we can skip as it's generic.)
Then "Responsibilities" heading appears later with subheadings: Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Machine, Tools, Equipment, Software, Hardware Required, Supervisory Responsibility.
Let's extract:
Responsibilities Knowledge:
- Become knowledgeable of relevant state, local and federal regulations
- Become knowledgeable of the policies, procedures, rules and regulations of the Authority
- Become knowledgeable of and apply standard defensive driving techniques
- Become knowledgeable of vehicle safety evaluation procedures
- Become knowledgeable of bus routes and schedules
Responsibilities Skills:
- Basic computer skills
- Become skilled in operating a passenger commercial vehicle.
- Skill in providing customer and personal service.
Responsibilities Abilities:
- Ability to listen to and understand information & ideas presented and respond to them accordingly
- Ability to work unusual hours, split shifts, weekends, holidays and overtime as required
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
- Ability to work and maintain professional composure while under stress and pressure
- Ability to read and understand maps and timetables, which includes determining directions and following a mapped-out route
- Ability to pass the medical assessment related to the physical requirements of the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations.
Machine, Tools, Equipment, Software, Hardware Required: (no specifics listed? It just says heading but no content; maybe none). We'll skip if no content.
Supervisory Responsibility: Not responsible for supervising others.
Then "Qualifications" heading:
- Minimum Education N/A (skip)
- Minimum Experience No experience required
- Must be at least 21 years of age
- Minimum Certification/Licensure:
- Licensed driver for a minimum of four (4) or more years
- A Commercial Driver’s License or Learner’s Permit with Passenger Bus and Airbrakes endorsement before starting Bus Training
- Driving record must reflect no more than two (2) moving violations and no suspension or revocation due to moving violations within the last three (3) years
- Commercial Driver’s License (must be acquired by the conclusion of the Bus training program)
- Preferred Qualifications:
- High School Diploma/GED
- Valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with Passenger Bus and Air Brake endorsements
Then "About Us": description of WMATA. Could be considered "About the role"? Actually "About Us" is company description; maybe we can put under "About the role" or separate? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should map content to these headings. "About Us" could be considered "About the role"? Probably we can put under "About the role". Or we could create a separate "About the role" heading and include the description of the role and WMATA. The instruction says use those headings; we can include only those that have content. So we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Possibly also "Benefits", "Pay", "Schedule" if present. The posting does not mention benefits, pay, schedule explicitly. There is mention of ability to work unusual hours etc but not schedule details. So we skip those.
Now we need to avoid filler like "N/A". So we should not include Minimum Education N/A as a bullet. Also "Other Duties N/A" skip. Also "Functions Disclaimer" maybe skip as generic.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all the duties, knowledge, skills, abilities, qualifications, etc.
We must format using for section headings, - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
Thus:
About the role
... (the description about attending training, safety sensitive, etc.)
Then maybe another paragraph for safety sensitive policy? Could combine.
Then Responsibilities
We have subcategories Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Supervisory Responsibility. Could we break into subheadings? The instruction only mentions those main headings; we could still include subheadings as ? Not specified. Safer to keep under Responsibilities and use - for each bullet, maybe grouping with
for subheadings? But we need to preserve structure. Could do
Responsibilities
then Knowledge:
... etc. But that adds extra tags not prohibited. The instruction only says use for section headings, - for any list,
for prose. It doesn't forbid other tags like or . But to be safe, we can just use
for subheading text and then
. That should be fine.
Thus:
Responsibilities
Knowledge:
- Become knowledgeable of relevant state, local and federal regulations
...
Skills:
...
Abilities:
...
Supervisory Responsibility:
- Not responsible for supervising others.
But maybe better to keep as for each subheading.
Now
Requirements
maybe corresponds to "Minimum Experience" etc? Actually Requirements could be the mandatory qualifications (minimum). We'll put under Requirements: Minimum Experience No experience required, Must be at least 21 years of age, Licensed driver for at least 4 years, etc. Also include the CDL/Learner's Permit requirement, driving record, etc. Also include that CDL must be acquired by conclusion of training.
We should not include "Minimum Education N/A". So skip.
Thus:
Requirements
- No experience required
- Must be at least 21 years of age
- Licensed driver for a minimum of four (4) or more years
- A Commercial Driver’s License or Learner’s Permit with Passenger Bus and Airbrakes endorsement before starting Bus Training
- Driving record must reflect no more than two (2) moving violations and no suspension or revocation due to moving violations within the last three (3) years
- Commercial Driver’s License must be acquired by the conclusion of the Bus training program
Now Qualifications
for preferred qualifications: High School Diploma/GED, Valid CDL with Passenger Bus and Air Brake endorsements.
Thus:
Qualifications
- High School Diploma/GED
- Valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with Passenger Bus and Air Brake endorsements
Now Skills
maybe we already put skills under Responsibilities; but we could also have a separate Skills section for skills like basic computer skills, operating passenger commercial vehicle, customer service. However we already listed them under Responsibilities Skills. To avoid duplication, we could move them to Skills section and keep Responsibilities for Knowledge, Abilities, Supervisory. But the instruction says use headings for sections; we can decide where to put content. The posting had "Skills" under Responsibilities. We could still create a Skills section and list those. But we must not duplicate content. Let's decide: We'll put Skills section with those skill items. Then Responsibilities will contain Knowledge, Abilities, Supervisory Responsibility. That seems logical.
Thus:
Skills
- Basic computer skills
- Become skilled in operating a passenger commercial vehicle.
- Skill in providing customer and personal service.
Now Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
Knowledge:
- Become knowledgeable of relevant state, local and federal regulations
- Become knowledgeable of the policies, procedures, rules and regulations of the Authority
- Become knowledgeable of and apply standard defensive driving techniques
- Become knowledgeable of vehicle safety evaluation procedures
- Become knowledgeable of bus routes and schedules
Abilities:
- Ability to listen to and understand information & ideas presented and respond to them accordingly
- Ability to work unusual hours, split shifts, weekends, holidays and overtime as required
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
- Ability to work and maintain professional composure while under stress and pressure
- Ability to read and understand maps and timetables, which includes determining directions and following a mapped-out route
- Ability to pass the medical assessment related to the physical requirements of the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations.
Supervisory Responsibility:
- Not responsible for supervising others.
Now About the role:
We
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Thus:
About the role
... (the description about attending training, safety sensitive, etc.)
Then maybe another paragraph for safety sensitive policy? Could combine. ThenResponsibilities
We have subcategories Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Supervisory Responsibility. Could we break into subheadings? The instruction only mentions those main headings; we could still include subheadings as? Not specified. Safer to keep under Responsibilities and use
- for each bullet, maybe grouping with
for subheadings? But we need to preserve structure. Could do
Responsibilities
thenKnowledge:
- ... etc. But that adds extra tags not prohibited. The instruction only says use
- for any list,
for prose. It doesn't forbid other tags like or
. But to be safe, we can just use
for subheading text and then
- . That should be fine.
Thus:
- Become knowledgeable of relevant state, local and federal regulations ...
- Not responsible for supervising others.
- No experience required
- Must be at least 21 years of age
- Licensed driver for a minimum of four (4) or more years
- A Commercial Driver’s License or Learner’s Permit with Passenger Bus and Airbrakes endorsement before starting Bus Training
- Driving record must reflect no more than two (2) moving violations and no suspension or revocation due to moving violations within the last three (3) years
- Commercial Driver’s License must be acquired by the conclusion of the Bus training program
- High School Diploma/GED
- Valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with Passenger Bus and Air Brake endorsements
- Basic computer skills
- Become skilled in operating a passenger commercial vehicle.
- Skill in providing customer and personal service.
- Become knowledgeable of relevant state, local and federal regulations
- Become knowledgeable of the policies, procedures, rules and regulations of the Authority
- Become knowledgeable of and apply standard defensive driving techniques
- Become knowledgeable of vehicle safety evaluation procedures
- Become knowledgeable of bus routes and schedules
- Ability to listen to and understand information & ideas presented and respond to them accordingly
- Ability to work unusual hours, split shifts, weekends, holidays and overtime as required
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
- Ability to work and maintain professional composure while under stress and pressure
- Ability to read and understand maps and timetables, which includes determining directions and following a mapped-out route
- Ability to pass the medical assessment related to the physical requirements of the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations.
- Not responsible for supervising others.
Responsibilities
Knowledge:
Skills:
- ...
Abilities:
- ...
Supervisory Responsibility:
for each subheading. Now
Requirements
maybe corresponds to "Minimum Experience" etc? Actually Requirements could be the mandatory qualifications (minimum). We'll put under Requirements: Minimum Experience No experience required, Must be at least 21 years of age, Licensed driver for at least 4 years, etc. Also include the CDL/Learner's Permit requirement, driving record, etc. Also include that CDL must be acquired by conclusion of training. We should not include "Minimum Education N/A". So skip. Thus:Requirements
Qualifications
for preferred qualifications: High School Diploma/GED, Valid CDL with Passenger Bus and Air Brake endorsements. Thus:Qualifications
Skills
maybe we already put skills under Responsibilities; but we could also have a separate Skills section for skills like basic computer skills, operating passenger commercial vehicle, customer service. However we already listed them under Responsibilities Skills. To avoid duplication, we could move them to Skills section and keep Responsibilities for Knowledge, Abilities, Supervisory. But the instruction says use headings for sections; we can decide where to put content. The posting had "Skills" under Responsibilities. We could still create a Skills section and list those. But we must not duplicate content. Let's decide: We'll put Skills section with those skill items. Then Responsibilities will contain Knowledge, Abilities, Supervisory Responsibility. That seems logical. Thus:Skills
Responsibilities
Knowledge:
Abilities:
Supervisory Responsibility:
for section headings,
- for any list,
- for each bullet, maybe grouping with