Bus Driver

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Drives a full-sized passenger bus in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Drives designated bus routes, fuels bus daily, and removes debris and trash.
• Discharges riders only at authorized stops.
• Reports all accidents and incidents, from minor to major, to the dispatch office and supervisor immediately; completes required reports, and submits them to the supervisor.
• Exercises responsible leadership and provides timely notice when unable to perform duties as scheduled.
• Maintains order when operating the bus and reports undisciplined individuals to the proper authority.
• Ensures proper and quick evacuation in case of an emergency.
• Ensures proper condition of bus by conducting "pre" and "post" trip inspections and completes daily inspection reports.
• Reports defective equipment to the supervisor.
• Ensures maintenance of the bus following department procedures.
• Takes bus for maintenance and repair when needed.
• Ensures proper and quick evacuation in case of an emergency.
• Prepares and submits reports that include the number of passengers, trips, hours on route, purchases of gasoline, and mileage.
• Turns in lost/found items and reports suspicious circumstances/safety hazards in parking lots and on designated bus routes pertaining to.
• Strives continually to promote the safety, health and comfort of students, faculty, staff, and others in the performance of duties.
• Maintains knowledge of college bus rules, regulations, and procedures by attending training as specified by the supervisor.
• Maintains current Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and certification as specified by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
• Strives continually to promote the safety, health and comfort of students, faculty, staff, and others in the performance of duties and maintains confidentiality.
• Serves as Campus Security Authority.
• Answers questions about schedules, routes, and transfer points.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

• High School Diploma or GED required.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Must be willing to learn computer usage related to position.
• Bilingual, English/Spanish, preferred.
• Must be willing and able to work various hours and rotating shifts during the hours of operation as assigned.
• Ability to work evenings and/or weekends as needed.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of students, customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to apply practical understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Checks, Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

• Security Sensitive position: all applicants are subject to a criminal background check under South Texas College policy.
• In addition, subject to a federal background check.
• Safety Sensitive position: participation in a drug and alcohol testing program under Federal Transit Administration guidelines is required.
• Must have a valid Texas Class A or B Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with passenger (P) endorsement.
• Must have current Department of Transportation (DOT) Medical Card.

Physical Requirements

• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.
• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment.
• Mobility to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, including inclement weather, excessive noise, intermittent, fumes, smoke or gases, grease and oils.

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.