at Universal Transportation Company in Clayton, Delaware, United States
Job Description
Basic Functions: Drives any type and size of school bus that may be operated by the Company
for the transportation of passengers on regularly scheduled routes.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Operates assigned school buses on assigned trips in accordance with printed trip
schedules and in accordance with specified stop, sequence, and time schedules.
• Boards, transports, and discharges passengers.
• May lift handicapped passengers and assist passengers into and out of bus as required
by Transportation Services Department policy and procedure.
• May operate a mechanized wheelchair lift.
• Develops via-directions and maintains and updates current student and trip manifests.
• Monitors the operational condition and safety of vehicle accessories of assigned buses
on a daily basis; monitors gauges and sensors while operating a bus and reports
discrepancies to initiate corrective actions.
• Practices non-aggressive, defensive driving techniques.
• Monitors, conducts, and responds to communications with the Transportation
Operations staff via two-radio.
• Maintains effective professional working relationships with pupils, parents, and district
staff.
• Enforces district policy and procedure in maintaining discipline on buses.
• Renders first aide to passengers on an emergency basis.
• Maintains working knowledge of and complies with laws and regulations pertaining to
pupil transportation.
• Maintains cleanliness of windows and interior of bus on a daily basis; may wash bus
exterior.
• Ensures familiarity with assigned trips before transporting passengers; may dry-run new
trips.
• Periodically participates in mandated meetings and in-service programs during
traditional and non-traditional workdays and work hours as required by the
department.
• Maintains and supports standards of personal conduct and discipline in accordance with
the current discipline policy approved by the Board of Education.
Performs other duties reasonably related to the job
class.
• Applicants must operate all types and sizes of school buses safely and on a specific time
schedule in varied and complex topographical, weather, urban traffic, and rural
conditions.
• Applicants must exit from the rear of the bus to assist in emergency evacuations.
• Communicate effectively and maintain cooperative relationships.
• Show personality and character traits suited to supervision and care of children of
multiple ethnicities and cultural values, behavioral, and physical handicaps.
• Resolve conflict and maintain discipline of children on board buses.
• Read and interpret maps, compass directions, schedules, student rosters and procedural
instructions.
• Rapidly learn routes and the operations of equipment related to duties.
