Director of Transportation

**ob Title: **Director of Transportation **Department: **Transportation **Reports to: **Superintendent **Classification: **Classified / Exempt Summary To enable each student, through safe and efficient transportation, to take full advantage of the complete range of curricular and extracurricular activities offered by the school district. Essential Duties and Responsibilities 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, skills and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 1. Conforms to all state laws and regulations regarding school transportation. 2. Maintains safety standards in conformance with state insurance regulations and develops a program of preventive safety. 3. Advises superintendent on road hazards for decision closing school during inclement weather. 4. Cooperates with school principals, transportation administrative assistants, and others responsible for planning special school trips. 5. Formulates the specifications to be incorporated to contractual agreements. 6. Prepares and updates bus schedules for all public schools in the district. 7. Attends appropriate committee and staff meetings. 8. Maintains all district-owned equipment and develops plans for preventive maintenance for each individual school owned vehicle. 9. Completes and dispatches insurance reports. 10. Submits all reports required by state authorities. 11. Acts as the decision-maker with parents for complaints and special requests. 12. Is responsible for developing and maintaining a bus discipline policy with input from parent advisory group, principals and students. 13. Develops recommendations for future equipment and personnel needs based on a survey of resident students, bus route distances, and grade levels of students. 14. Develops recommendations for future transportation needs based on an annual survey of resident students. 15. Other duties as may be assigned by the superintendent. Supervisory Duties 1. Recruits and supervises all transportation personnel, and is responsible for their employment, training, transfer, promotion, and release. 2. Develops and administers a transportation program to meet all the requirements of daily instructional program and extracurricular activities. 3. Develops and administers the transportation for any summer school programs. 4. Administers and prepares the transportation budget in cooperation with the superintendent. 5. Authorizes purchases in accordance with budgetary limitations and district rules. 6. Approves and forwards service invoices to accounting department. Education/Experience - Bachelors Degree preferred but not required. - Must qualify for and obtain a school bus driver Class B CDL (commercial driver license) and be certified as an instructor. - Experience or skills in long and short-range planning (Bus routes: Enrollment). - Experience in working with the formal bidding process of vehicles. - Experience in supervising a large group of people. - Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.