Bus Operator (No CDL) - Shuttle Operator - G116 - Columbus Consolidated Government

This position is responsible for operating a METRA transit golf cart.

• Prepares the golf cart for safe operation: conducts pre-trip inspection and checks off daily safety prevention checklist for both interior and exterior of the golf cart.
• Boards and inspects passengers.
• Drives golf cart and maintains daily knowledge of routes.
• Operates essential equipment, to include a Non-CDL vehicle.
• Assists passengers with disabilities; secures wheelchairs and passengers; assists passengers in distress; notifies dispatcher/supervisor of golf cart location and symptoms of passengers in distress.
• Perform duties required by the Office of Homeland Security, assisting customers in safe evacuation from the golf cart; 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 golf cart operation.
• Provides information and directional assistance.
• Issues parking citations: explains violations to citizens as needed; delivers court summons for parking violators to appear in court for resolution; handles contracts for customers leasing parking spaces in the River Center garage.
• Maintains knowledge of all city ordinances pertaining to non-moving vehicle violations.
• Performs daily inspections of parking garages to determine property damage, needed repairs, and vehicle damage; reports needed repairs for city vehicles; monitors surveillance cameras for city owned garages and parking lots.
• 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/supervisor and obtains necessary repairs and maintenance work at each turn-around point; secures golf cart in case of accident or engine malfunction; directs traffic around golf cart as needed.
• Performs the duties of the supervisor in his or her absence and needed.
• Must have open flexibility with his or her schedule.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.