Position Type: Transportation/Bus Driver
Date Posted: 9/17/2024
Location: District-Wide
Date Available: ASAP
District: Hamilton City School District
Pay Rate : $20.68/hour
Benefits Eligable - After 60 days
Position: Substitute Bus Driver Immediate Supervisor: Transportation Supervisor ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Ensure safety of students
- Transport students safely and efficiently to and from school and school related events
- Follow assigned bus routes and schedules
- Maintain required records and information
- Report any mechanical problems to the utility worker or supervisor
- Keep assigned vehicle neat and clean
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge and awareness of changes in driving laws as they apply to transporting school children
- Obey all traffic laws
- Observe all mandatory safety regulations for school buses
- Maintain pupil control and report any violations to the proper authorities
- Discharge students only at authorized bus stops
- Transport only authorized students
- Report all accidents and complete required reports
- Enforce applicable federal and state laws, and Board of Education policies
- Complete established pre-trip inspection of vehicle
- Report any hazardous conditions along the existing route to the transportation supervisor
- Attend bus driver meetings and be available in the event of an early dismissal
- Notify the transportation supervisor in case of illness in order to permit time to secure a substitute driver
- Conduct front door, rear door, and combination front and rear door emergency evacuation drills
- Prepare reports, route maps, schedules, pupil lists, and accident reports as required by the State of Ohio, the Ohio Department of Education, and the Board of Education
- Make contacts with public with tact and diplomacy
- Maintain respect at all times for confidential information, e.g. student identification information, student medication
- Interact in a positive manner with staff, students and parents
- Promote good public relations by personal appearance, attitude, conversation, and by the safe and professional operation of a school bus
- Attend meetings and in-services as required
- Fill out Incident Reports and "Code of Student Behavior" violations
OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Warm up the engine gradually in cold weather
- Exercise responsible leadership when on out-of-district field trips
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Transportation Supervisor
EQUIPMENT OPERATED - Bus
- Tire Gauge
- Safety equipment on bus
- Fire Extinguisher
- First Aid Kit
- Body Fluid Kit
- Various hand held items, e.g. tire iron, oil can, flares, broom, dustpan, flashlight, squeegee
ADDITIONAL WORKING CONDITIONS: - Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids and tissue
- Occasional operation of a bus or vehicle in inclement weather conditions
- Frequent interaction among unruly children
- Occasional evening/weekend/summer work
- Occasional requirement to lift and carry bus supplies
- Frequent requirement to climb, e.g. steps on a bus and to check bus fluids, through bus back emergency door, bumpers to adjust mirrors or clean windshield
- Frequent stooping, kneeling and crouching during inspections
- Frequent requirement to balance when adjusting side mirrors
- Frequent extensive sitting, up to 4 hours at a time
- Frequent exposure to high levels of noise, e.g. bus engines
- Frequent repetitive hand motion, e.g. opening bus door and turning the steering wheel
- Occasional requirement to lift students or push and pull wheelchair bound students
- Occasional requirement to carry bus students in emergency evacuation
- Frequent exposure to various fumes, i.e. carbon monoxide and diesel fuel
- Frequent requirement to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, see (color vision required), read, speak, reach, stretch with hands and arms, crouch, climb, balance, kneel and stoop
- Occasional requirement to restrain
- Occasional requirement to work overtime