TRANSPORTATION SUPERVISOR - 12 MONTH

Transportation Supervisor – 12 Month 

Job Objectives: 
To provide safe and efficient transportation allowing students to take full advantage of the complete range of curricular and extracurricular opportunities offered by the district’s schools.

Minimum Qualifications: 
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, license, certification and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Responsibilities and Essential Functions: Applicants or persons employed in this position must be able to perform the following tasks and functions which are fundamental to the purpose of the position.

• Develop, maintain, and administer a transportation program that meets all of the requirements of the daily instructional program and extracurricular activities
• Develop and maintain bus routes and an updated bus schedule for all schools in the district through the implementation of the district’s computerized routing system
• Recruit, train, supervise, and evaluate all transportation personnel and make recommendations on their employment, transfer, promotion, and termination
• Supervise repair and maintenance of all district-owned equipment and   development of a plan for preventive maintenance
• Works with the assistant superintendent and the executive director of operations in the preparation and administration of the transportation budget
• Works with district-level administration (human resources and payroll) to properly implement hiring and payroll procedures
• Authorizes purchases in accordance with budgetary limitations and district purchasing policy
• Maintaines safety standards in conformance with state and federal regulations and develops a program of preventive safety
• Develops recommendations for future equipment and personnel needs based on the demographics of the district
• Ensure compliance by the district with all state laws and regulations regarding school transportation; complete and submit all reports
• Cooperates with school principals and others responsible for planning school trips
• Takes an active role in solving discipline problems occurring on school buses
• Advises the superintendent, executive director of operations, and assistant superintendent on road hazards for decisions on school closing during inclement weather

Skills and Abilities Required:  

• Five years successful leadership 
• Be self-motivated, able to work on several projects concurrently
• Be able to protect the confidentiality of information pertaining to students, staff and program matters as appropriate
• Ability to exercise initiative and sound judgment
• Ability to apply common sense understanding and carry out instructions furnished in written, oral and/or diagram form
• Ability to read and interpret documents and procedure manuals
• Ability to react resourcefully to varying conditions
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
• Ability to speak effectively
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• (Preferred/not required) Hold a valid Oklahoma teaching certificate

Physical Demands/Working Conditions:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hand to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to wet, cold or hot and/or humid conditions. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include peripheral vision.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Occasionally- Standing, walking, sitting, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and reaching.
• Constant- Grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and eye/hand/foot coordination.

Working Conditions:

• Occasionally- Extreme cold, extreme heat, humid, wet, noisy, hazards, temperature changes, vibrations.
  
  Salary:            TBD
  Department:   Transportation
  Reports To:    Executive Director, Operations
  Job Code:      0061
  Number of Days: 238
  Overtime Status: Exempt
  
  THIS POSITION IS FULL-TIME, PERMANENT