Transportation Specialist

Job Description Code: 5H.015

Division/Department: Support Services 

Pay Grade: TR-3

Pay Type: Salaried; Non-Exempt

Retirement: TRS

Contract Work Year: 235 Days

Reports To: Executive Director, Transportation; Coordinator, Transportation Routing/Operations

Evaluation Instrument: PEI

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

High school diploma or successful completion of a GED testing program; valid Georgia Class B CDL Driver’s License with S & P endorsements: to be acquired within 30 days of employment or as scheduling permits; Third Party CDL Tester Certification preferred. Five or more years working in a school bus transportation program; experience in safety training is preferred. General knowledge of driving, bus safety and working with people. 

GOAL

Provide assistance and recommendations regarding safety issues, and manage the Federal Drug and Alcohol Testing Program. 

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrate prompt and appropriate attendance.
• Communicate effectively with the public.
• Evaluate bus drivers by direct observation during routes.
• Assist with training requirements of new trainees.
• Evaluate load counts, turnarounds and bus routes for safety and procedures.
• Assist drivers in student-management techniques.
• Retrieve and view videotapes as needed.
• Evaluate route requests.
• Assist with complaints from drivers and parents relating to bus routes.
• Provide reports, schedules, data and computer-generated charts.
• Drive or monitor bus routes as needed.
• Assist in securing emergency substitutes.
• Return phone calls involving route information.
• Assist in managing all full-time and part-time relief drivers.
• Coordinate and develop school bus routes using the school system computer routing system.
• Meet with drivers and school personnel to maintain accurate student records and bus routes utilizing the school district’s computer-routing system.
• Monitor buses and load counts to ensure efficiency of routing.
• Maintain accurate school boundary lines in the school system computer-routing system, and assist the Planning and Forecasting Department with the changes and recommendations.
• Download student data regularly to keep routing information updated.
• Receive mapping information from the county, and maintain accurate road and house number data in the computer routing system.
• Assist in special education bus routing including midday routes, CBI, pre-school and summer school routes.
• Provide written correspondence to appropriate staff in order to make route changes necessary.
• Conduct CDL training and testing if applicable.
• Manage the GBI Sex Offender Website and determine appropriate stop location.
• Assist with driver evaluations and safety procedures.
• Assist and ensure compliance with the Federal Drug and Alcohol Testing Program.
• Assist with interviews, training and orientation of new personnel.
• Manage and track data for the Accident Review Committee.
• Inform the Coordinator of Transportation Routing/Operations of situations involving safety, traffic, efficiency, bus stops, school loading zones and any other personnel matter requiring attention.
• Evaluate and/or create computer programs used in Transportation.
• Ensure computer security and pass codes.
• Maintain technology including the server, web and other equipment.
• Provide staff development training as required.
• Compile reports on trends, benchmarks, etc., analyze data and manage personnel records.
• Possess and maintain valid and appropriate license, certificate and/or credential as may be required for this position.
• Follow work scheduling and attendance requirements in a regular, predictable and punctual manner.
• Participate in training programs to increase skills and proficiency related to the assignment.
• Review current developments, literature and technical source information related to job responsibilities.
• Ensure adherence to good safety procedures.
• Follow federal and state laws, as well as School Board policies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

IMPORTANT NOTES

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Job descriptions are designed and intended only to summarize the essential duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and requirements for the purpose of clarifying the general nature and scope of a position’s role as part of the overall organization. Job descriptions do not list all tasks an employee might be expected to perform, and they do not limit the right of the employer/supervisor to assign additional tasks or otherwise to modify duties to be performed – even if seemingly unrelated to the basic job. Every employee has a duty to perform all assigned tasks. (An employee who is assigned a duty or task believed to be unlawful should report the assignment to the Chief Human Resources Officer.) It should also be noted the order of duties/ responsibilities as listed in the job description is not designed or intended to rank the duties in any order of importance relative to each other. 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

In filling a vacant position, preferred or required credentials regarding education, training, experience, and other bona fide occupational qualifications may be established. The credentials shown in this job description may be interpreted only as the minimum criteria existing at the time the description was developed. Other bona fide occupational qualifications and criteria may be utilized as needed in the selection process. 

Fringe Benefits

FICA is paid by the employee and matched by the School District. Temporary workers do not qualify for employee benefits.

Adopted: April 20, 2000

Revised: May 2005, July 2008, April 2011, May 2012, June 2016; February 2017, July 2023, July 2024