What are the responsibilities and job description for the BUS OPERATOR G121 position at Columbus Consolidated Government?
This position is responsible for operating a METRA transit bus.
- Prepares the bus for safe operation: conducts pre-trip inspection and checks off daily safety prevention checklist for both interior and exterior of the bus.
- Boards and inspects passengers.
- Drives bus and maintains route schedule; monitors fare box, passes, and identifications for the purpose of assuring accurate fare amounts.
- Operates essential equipment.
- Assists passengers with disabilities; operates a wheelchair lift; secures wheelchairs and passengers; assists passengers in distress; notifies dispatcher of bus location and symptoms of passengers in distress.
- Perform duties required by the Office of Homeland Security, assisting customers in safe evacuation from the bus; observing, determining, and reporting activities, packages and substances that are suspicious or out-of-place; ability to use a common sense approach when faced with various emergency situations to ensure public/passenger safety and proper bus operation.
- Provides information and directional assistance.
- Accesses revenue readings for surveys; provides input on route adjustments.
- Operates a radio; reports accidents and emergency situations when en route; assists 911 by reporting inoperative traffic lights.
- Participates in random and mandatory drug and alcohol testing.
- Attends annual driver refresher training; attends courses in defensive driving as needed.
- Notifies dispatcher and obtains necessary repairs and maintenance work at each turn-around point; secures bus in case of accident or engine malfunction; directs traffic around bus as needed.
- Opens the Transfer Center daily; checks employees as they come in; issues buses; handles incoming calls; provides information about routes; manages bus schedules; prepares mileage reports and surveys; maintains a log of daily activities; prepares requests for charters; sells swipe cards; drives charters for special tours.
- Performs the duties of the supervisor in his or her absence and needed.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Knowledge of the principles and practices involved in operating assigned automotive equipment.
- Knowledge of first aid techniques and procedures.
- Knowledge of city streets and bus routes.
- Knowledge of traffic rules, regulations, and statutes.
- Skill in the safe operation of assigned automotive and other equipment.
- Skill in the operation of standard office equipment.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
- Ability to assist customers using patience and understanding.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
The work is typically performed while sitting for prolonged periods of time in a driver's seat and/or at a keyboard. The employee must have the ability to: lift up to twenty-five (25) pounds; push an occupied standard wheelchair with weight capacity per ADA standards (600 pounds); open emergency hatch on top of bus; manually lift bus ramp if needed; open emergency exit windows; walk around and inspect vehicle.
- Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
- Crawling – moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.
- Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
- Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
- Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
- Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
- Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
- Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
- Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
- Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
- Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
- Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
- Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
- Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
- Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
- Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
- Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
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