Lead Bus Driver

About the role

The Lead Bus Driver assists Area Supervisors with school bus operations, evaluating bus stops, routes, and employee performance, coordinating with parents, principals, and citizens, and assisting Area Supervisors with department responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Performs routine observations of assigned routes and bus stops.
• Assists in developing bus routes and route changes, in substitute coordination, and in familiarizing drivers with route assignments.
• Responds to emergency situations, including investigating motor vehicle accidents and completing accident reports.
• Observes and evaluates bus drivers and attendants.
• Explains and enforces bus safety rules to employees, students, school administrators, and the general public.
• Must be available to drive a school bus or attend on a school bus at any time as needed.
• Evaluates walk zones to ensure they meet regulation requirements such as traffic volume, speed limit, width of the roadway, traffic lanes, and the type of traffic control.
• Coordinates snow removal and observes road conditions during inclement weather.

Qualifications

Equivalent combinations of education and experience are acceptable. Minimum qualifications include:

• High School diploma or GED
• Three years of experience as a school bus driver with a proven record of mastering skills of school bus driving
• Possess a Commercial Driver’s License with school bus endorsement

Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of traffic and highway safety rules and regulations
• Ability to effectively communicate, to work cooperatively and to manage behavior of students on bus
• Ability to perform basic first aid procedures
• Knowledge of all responsibilities of school bus drivers and attendants

Physical Requirements

The employee is regularly talking, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, and must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. The employee must possess normal cognitive abilities including the ability to learn, recall and apply certain practices and policies. The employee will frequently be sitting and/or remaining in a stationary position for long periods of time, and may be required to climb stairs and ladders; to bend, kneel, crouch, and crawl; to hold, grasp, and turn objects; to feel shapes, size, temperature of objects, and detect odors. The employee will exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

Essential Personnel

Employees who perform the responsibilities of this position for the Department of Support Services are considered essential personnel, and must report for work during a delay or emergency situations.

Pay

Salary Level: Universal/Scale B.1 - Level 10, with a salary range of $33.29 - $42.89 per hour.

Schedule

12 months, 254 days, 8 hours per day.