Director Of Transportation
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We need to strip boilerplate: Reports To, Department, Supervises, Employment, FLSA Status maybe minor metadata; we can fold into short
or drop. Probably include a short paragraph with that metadata.
We need to avoid duplication.
Let's extract content:
Job Title: WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION (not heading)
Reports To: Superintendent or Designee
Department: Operations / Transportation
Supervises: Transportation Department personnel, including supervisors/coordinators, dispatchers, driver trainers, bus drivers, bus assistants/monitors, mechanics, and other assigned personnel
Employment: Full-Time, 12-Month Administrative Position
FLSA Status: Exempt
POSITION PURPOSE paragraph.
Leadership Accountabilities sections: Safety, Compliance & Risk Management; Transportation Operations & Service Reliability; People Leadership & Workforce Development; Routing, Technology & Data; Fleet & Asset Management; Financial & Resource Management; Communication & Customer Service; Strategic Planning & Continuous Improvement.
Each has bullet-like paragraphs.
Minimum Qualifications paragraph.
Preferred Qualifications paragraph (cut off at "large-scale fl").
We need to preserve all substantive info; we can keep the preferred qualifications text as is (though truncated). We'll include it.
We need to decide sections:
- About the role: could include POSITION PURPOSE and maybe metadata.
- Responsibilities: could combine the leadership accountabilities sections into a list of responsibilities.
- Requirements: Minimum Qualifications.
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications.
- Skills: maybe the demonstrated knowledge/abilities etc. Could extract from Minimum Qualifications: Demonstrated knowledge of safety management, personnel supervision, budgeting, fleet management, routing/logistics, regulatory compliance, emergency response, technology, and customer service. Ability to obtain and maintain all transportation-management training and certifications required by Tennessee law. Valid driver's license and satisfactory driving record. Also maybe from Preferred Qualifications: Leadership experience in K-12 student transportation etc.
But we must not invent. We'll include Skills section if there is explicit list of skills. The posting includes "Demonstrated knowledge of safety management, personnel supervision, budgeting, fleet management, routing/logistics, regulatory compliance, emergency response, technology, and customer service." That's a skill list. Also "Ability to obtain and maintain all transportation-management training and certifications required by Tennessee law." Also "Valid driver's license and satisfactory driving record." We'll put those in Skills.
We must not create Pay/Benefits/Schedule sections because not present.
Now produce HTML.
Structure:
Reports To: Superintendent or Designee; Department: Operations / Transportation; Supervises: Transportation Department personnel, including supervisors/coordinators, dispatchers, driver trainers, bus drivers, bus assistants/monitors, mechanics, and other assigned personnel; Employment: Full-Time, 12-Month Administrative Position; FLSA Status: Exempt.
About the role
[POSITION PURPOSE text]
Responsibilities
- Safety, Compliance & Risk Management: ... (the paragraph)
- Transportation Operations & Service Reliability: ...
- People Leadership & Workforce Development: ...
- Routing, Technology & Data: ...
- Fleet & Asset Management: ...
- Financial & Resource Management: ...
- Communication & Customer Service: ...
- Strategic Planning & Continuous Improvement: ...
Requirements
[Minimum Qualifications paragraph]
Qualifications
[Preferred Qualifications paragraph]
Skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of safety management, personnel supervision, budgeting, fleet management, routing/logistics, regulatory compliance, emergency response, technology, and customer service.
- Ability to obtain and maintain all transportation-management training and certifications required by Tennessee law.
- Valid driver's license and satisfactory driving record.
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive info from the purpose and each responsibility paragraph. Let's copy them exactly as in text.
POSITION PURPOSE: "The Director of Transportation provides strategic and operational leadership for the Washington County Schools student transportation program. The Director is accountable for safe, reliable, efficient, compliant, and student-centered transportation services and for the effective stewardship of the district's transportation workforce, fleet, technology, and financial resources. The Director leads a service-oriented department focused on safety, operational excellence, employee effectiveness, fiscal responsibility, communication, and continuous improvement. The Director serves as the district's designated Transportation Supervisor for purposes of Tennessee law unless otherwise designated by the Superintendent."
Now each responsibility paragraph:
Safety, Compliance & Risk Management: "Provides executive oversight of the district's transportation safety and compliance program and establishes a safety-first culture across all transportation operations. Ensure compliance with applicable federal and Tennessee laws, regulations, school bus specifications, State Board requirements, Board policies, and district procedures. Complete and maintain all transportation-management training and continuing education required for the district's designated Transportation Supervisor. Maintain effective systems for receiving, investigating, documenting, resolving, and retaining transportation safety complaints and related corrective or disciplinary actions within required timelines. Oversee transportation emergency preparedness, accident response, evacuation procedures, incident review, required state reporting, and corrective-action processes. Serve as the district transportation operational lead, in coordination with law enforcement, emergency responders, district leadership, and school administration, during significant school bus accidents and transportation emergencies. Oversee the district's DOT drug and alcohol testing program for covered transportation employees, including pre-employment, random, post-accident, reasonable-suspicion, return-to-duty, and follow-up requirements as applicable. Ensure required records are maintained for driver qualifications, background/fingerprint checks, medical and motor-vehicle records, training, inspections, accidents, complaints, vehicle maintenance, and other compliance obligations. Ensure authorized school bus drivers are properly credentialed and reported/authorized through applicable Tennessee systems, including TITAN, and that drivers with suspended or revoked privileges are immediately restricted from driving."
Transportation Operations & Service Reliability: "Directs districtwide transportation operations and establishes systems that deliver dependable daily service while responding effectively to changing conditions. Direct the safe and efficient transportation of students to and from school, school-sponsored activities, and other authorized programs, including transportation required for students with disabilities and students eligible under McKinney-Vento. Oversee dispatch, route coverage, substitute assignments, loading/unloading practices, school coordination, and response to daily service disruptions. Monitor early-morning road and inclement-weather conditions; assess transportation safety and operational impacts; and advise the Superintendent/designee regarding delays, closures, alternate routes, or other adjustments. Establish operational protocols for severe weather, road closures, mechanical failures, accidents, student emergencies, and other transportation disruptions. Coordinate transportation requirements with principals, special education personnel, student support staff, athletics/activities personnel, and central-office departments. Maintain effective systems for timely communication with schools, drivers, families, emergency responders, and district leadership during routine operations and disruptions."
People Leadership & Workforce Development: "Builds and sustains a professional, accountable, service-oriented transportation workforce capable of meeting the district's current and future operational needs. Lead recruitment, selection, onboarding, development, supervision, evaluation, recognition, retention, and accountability for transportation personnel. Recommend qualified personnel for employment and ensure appropriate staffing levels, succession planning, and substitute coverage. Ensure drivers and other covered employees satisfy applicable CDL, endorsement, training, medical, background-check, fingerprinting, motor-vehicle-record, drug/alcohol testing, and other eligibility requirements. Oversee initial and recurring driver training, in-service programs, evacuation training, student-management training, safety instruction, and emergency preparedness in accordance with state standards. Establish clear performance expectations, supervisory practices, and professional standards; investigate performance or conduct concerns and recommend appropriate corrective action consistent with district policy. Develop and implement strategies to strengthen driver and transportation employee recruitment, engagement, attendance, retention, and professional growth."
Routing, Technology & Data: "Uses routing expertise, technology, and performance data to improve student service, operational efficiency, accountability, and decision-making. Oversee the design, evaluation, and continuous improvement of routes, stops, schedules, school transportation patterns, and transportation assignments using automated routing systems such as BusRight or successor platforms. Use GPS/telematics, routing, camera, fleet-management, parent-communication, and state reporting technologies to improve safety, service, and accountability. Establish consistent safety and operational criteria for evaluating route and stop changes and community requests for transportation service. Analyze and report key indicators such as ridership, mileage, travel time, capacity utilization, on-time performance, route coverage, driver availability, overtime, and cost. Ensure student transportation data are accurate, appropriately protected, and effectively integrated with district student information and transportation systems."
Fleet & Asset Management: "Provides strategic oversight of the district's school bus and transportation fleet to ensure safe, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective assets. Oversee preventive maintenance, repairs, service schedules, annual inspections, pre- and post-trip inspection processes, and documentation for school buses and assigned district fleet vehicles. Ensure buses meet applicable Tennessee equipment, inspection, service authorization, and record-retention requirements. Monitor vehicle age, mileage, condition, reliability, fuel/energy use, maintenance cost, downtime, and lifecycle cost to inform replacement decisions. Develop and maintain a long-range capital fleet replacement plan and recommend annual vehicle and equipment priorities. Provide leadership for vehicle specifications, procurement, acceptance, disposal, vendor/service contracts, inventory controls, and appropriate grant opportunities, including alternative-fuel or clean-energy initiatives when operationally and financially advantageous."
Financial & Resource Management: "Exercises responsible stewardship of public resources and aligns transportation spending with safety, service, efficiency, and long-range district priorities. Develop and administer the Transportation Department's annual operating and capital budgets in coordination with district leadership. Monitor expenditures, purchasing, inventory, contracts, fuel/energy costs, maintenance costs, overtime, and other major cost drivers; maintain appropriate internal controls. Analyze cost-per-mile, cost-per-student, route utilization, staffing, fleet, and other operational measures to identify opportunities for improved efficiency and service. Prepare or oversee specifications and recommendations for buses, vehicles, equipment, technology, fuel, parts, and contracted services. Develop multiyear resource forecasts addressing fleet, staffing, facilities, technology, and transportation capacity."
Communication & Customer Service: "Builds trust through responsive communication, professional service, and effective collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. Establish responsive systems for addressing parent, student, employee, school, Board, and community transportation questions, concerns, and service requests. Communicate clearly and promptly regarding delays, route changes, emergencies, service disruptions, safety matters, and other transportation issues. Provide regular operational, safety, staffing, fleet, and performance updates to the Superintendent/designee and prepare information for the Board of Education when requested. Represent the district professionally with families, community organizations, contractors, the county/highway department, law enforcement, emergency responders, state agencies, vendors, and other partners. Ensure students, parents, staff, and drivers have access to and understand applicable transportation policies, procedures, bus conduct expectations, discipline/reporting processes, and safety responsibilities."
Strategic Planning & Continuous Improvement: "Leads continuous improvement of
for prose. We need to strip boilerplate: Reports To, Department, Supervises, Employment, FLSA Status maybe minor metadata; we can fold into short
or drop. Probably include a short paragraph with that metadata. We need to avoid duplication. Let's extract content: Job Title: WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION (not heading) Reports To: Superintendent or Designee Department: Operations / Transportation Supervises: Transportation Department personnel, including supervisors/coordinators, dispatchers, driver trainers, bus drivers, bus assistants/monitors, mechanics, and other assigned personnel Employment: Full-Time, 12-Month Administrative Position FLSA Status: Exempt POSITION PURPOSE paragraph. Leadership Accountabilities sections: Safety, Compliance & Risk Management; Transportation Operations & Service Reliability; People Leadership & Workforce Development; Routing, Technology & Data; Fleet & Asset Management; Financial & Resource Management; Communication & Customer Service; Strategic Planning & Continuous Improvement. Each has bullet-like paragraphs. Minimum Qualifications paragraph. Preferred Qualifications paragraph (cut off at "large-scale fl"). We need to preserve all substantive info; we can keep the preferred qualifications text as is (though truncated). We'll include it. We need to decide sections: - About the role: could include POSITION PURPOSE and maybe metadata. - Responsibilities: could combine the leadership accountabilities sections into a list of responsibilities. - Requirements: Minimum Qualifications. - Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications. - Skills: maybe the demonstrated knowledge/abilities etc. Could extract from Minimum Qualifications: Demonstrated knowledge of safety management, personnel supervision, budgeting, fleet management, routing/logistics, regulatory compliance, emergency response, technology, and customer service. Ability to obtain and maintain all transportation-management training and certifications required by Tennessee law. Valid driver's license and satisfactory driving record. Also maybe from Preferred Qualifications: Leadership experience in K-12 student transportation etc. But we must not invent. We'll include Skills section if there is explicit list of skills. The posting includes "Demonstrated knowledge of safety management, personnel supervision, budgeting, fleet management, routing/logistics, regulatory compliance, emergency response, technology, and customer service." That's a skill list. Also "Ability to obtain and maintain all transportation-management training and certifications required by Tennessee law." Also "Valid driver's license and satisfactory driving record." We'll put those in Skills. We must not create Pay/Benefits/Schedule sections because not present. Now produce HTML. Structure:
Reports To: Superintendent or Designee; Department: Operations / Transportation; Supervises: Transportation Department personnel, including supervisors/coordinators, dispatchers, driver trainers, bus drivers, bus assistants/monitors, mechanics, and other assigned personnel; Employment: Full-Time, 12-Month Administrative Position; FLSA Status: Exempt.
About the role
[POSITION PURPOSE text]
Responsibilities
- Safety, Compliance & Risk Management: ... (the paragraph)
- Transportation Operations & Service Reliability: ...
- People Leadership & Workforce Development: ...
- Routing, Technology & Data: ...
- Fleet & Asset Management: ...
- Financial & Resource Management: ...
- Communication & Customer Service: ...
- Strategic Planning & Continuous Improvement: ...
Requirements
[Minimum Qualifications paragraph]
Qualifications
[Preferred Qualifications paragraph]
Skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of safety management, personnel supervision, budgeting, fleet management, routing/logistics, regulatory compliance, emergency response, technology, and customer service.
- Ability to obtain and maintain all transportation-management training and certifications required by Tennessee law.
- Valid driver's license and satisfactory driving record.