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Granite School District - Salt Lake City, UT
posted 3 months ago
Full-time - Entry Level
Salt Lake City, UT
Educational Services
About the position
The Bus Driver is responsible for safely transporting students to and from school, field trips, and extended trips. This role requires operating various styles of school buses, ensuring the cleanliness and mechanical soundness of the bus, and monitoring student behavior. Attendance and punctuality are essential for this position, which includes performing safety inspections and maintaining detailed route sheets.
Responsibilities
- Operate various brands, sizes, and types of school buses (up to 15 tons GVW or up to 40 ft long)
- Deliver students to and from school in a safe manner
- Monitor and model appropriate behavior and intervene when necessary
- Perform a state-required pre- and post-trip safety inspection of the bus including an under-the-bus inspection and adding necessary fluids
- Complete all state and district-required forms and paperwork
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills
- Make minor repairs in route
- Attend all training required by state and district
- Effectively clean bus
- Conduct regularly scheduled safety and bus evacuation drills
- Maintain detailed route sheets
- Operate wheelchair lift and properly secure students to their seats when necessary
- Perform first aid/CPR
- Supervise and train adult attendants on the bus
- Enforce school bus safety rules and policies
Requirements
- Attain CDL with passenger and school bus endorsements
- Possess a safe driving record as demonstrated by their MVR report
- Complete new driver training course within ninety days of hire
- Complete state requirements for Learner's Permit
- Complete behind-the-wheel training
- Pass driving assessment
- Pass the State-required Department of Transportation (DOT) drug screening and physical
- Renew CDL every five years
- Complete the State-required certification program (including required classes and other learning requirements)
- Pass annual State-required physical assessment
- Participate in all random DOT drug screenings
- Complete an eight-hour in-service training each year of employment (including the first year)
Benefits
- Paid training to get CDL with school bus endorsement
