Supervisor of Transportation - Accomack County School District

Job Title:                         Supervisor of Transportation

Contract Length:            260 days

FLSA Status:                   Exempt

Job Summary

Plans, directs, coordinates, and oversees all functions pertaining to the operation and maintenance of the division transportation department.  This includes personnel, equipment, and bus shop.  The prime concern is safe, efficient, economical transportation of student between home and school on a regular schedule, and between other destinations within or outside the division boundaries on a special scheduling basis.

Essential Duties

1. Establish all regular and special needs bus routes, schedules, and stops. Develop route maps for drivers, school, etc. as appropriate.
2. Arrange and coordinate student transportation activities with school officials, department heads, and other interested groups or individuals for regular school days, summer school, summer programs, special program, and special events.
3. Participate along with school official in parent/student conferences in an effort to resolve or prevent misconduct and unsafe conditions, which involve the transportation system.
4. Recommend procurement of additional or replacement buses and other vehicles and disposal of buses and other vehicles declared surplus.
5. Assist in budget preparation and administer the expenditure of funds as allocated.
6. Assign emergency calls on vehicle failure and assist on emergency calls when needed.
7. Collect data and develop all required school bus transportation-oriented reports and insures their submission on a timely basis.
8. Ensure compliance with the codes and pertinent policies regarding training, licensing, registration, and operational permits.
9. Recruit, recommend for employment, and evaluate all transportation department personnel including school bus drivers, aides, mechanics, and helpers.
10. Develop a school bus driver’s manual based upon State statues and school board policies, establishing regulations for driver personnel in the operation of school buses.
11. Scheduled and coordinate annual inspection of all buses by the Transportation Department and State Department of Education as applicable.
12. Provides instruction in management of special needs students.
13. Provides for a pool of adequately trained and informed substitute bus drivers.
14. Coordinates and conducts in-service bus driver training and traffic safety program.
15. Supervise general maintenance program with specific attention to safety inspections for school buses and other vehicles.
16. Establish performance standards and supervise operational care, service, and maintenance of all vehicles within the department.
17. Conduct accident investigations and submits accident report to appropriate law enforcement and insurance agencies.
18. Evaluate safety of road conditions during inclement weather and provide timely information to the Superintendent.
19. Order materials, supplies, and equipment necessary to operate the transportation department.

Other Duties

1. To perform other duties as assigned by the Superintendent or their designee.

Job Specifications

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 and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required)

1. Must possess a high school diploma or GED.
2. Experience in an organization having full maintenance and operation of transportation services.
3. Experiences or responsibilities in the following area is preferred…
   1. Supervision of personnel
   2. Routing and scheduling
   3. Bus driver training
   4. Accident investigation
   5. Bus maintenance
   6. Inventory control
   7. Cost accounting
   8. Budgeting, record keeping.
4. Must be knowledgeable of safety standards, laws, rules, regulation, policies, and procedures relating to pupil transportation.
5. Must possess a valid Virginia driver’s license with a commercial driver’s license (CDL).
6. Demonstrate ability to establish cooperative relations with other division staff members, subordinates, students, and parents.
7. Ability to operate all vehicle types used in the school division.
8. Ability to communicate effectively.
9. Ability to do skilled mechanical work.

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone; physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds; and to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach overhead.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment.  Duties may be occasionally performed on field trips away from school.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Clearance

Criminal Justice Background check, Fingerprinting, TB Assessment

Supervision Exercised:  Dependent on grade level and subject; may include instructional assistants, volunteers, tutors.

Supervision Received:  Chief of Operations

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee.  The applicant will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator.  Accomack County Public Schools reserves the right to update, revise, or change this job description and related duties at any time.

The Accomack County School System does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, handicap, race, religion, color, or national origin in its employment practices.

"We are an equal opportunity employer."