2025 - 2026 McKinny-Vento Driver

Western Heights Public Schools•Oklahoma City, OK

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for the transportation of eligible students to and from school. The driver establishes their route and pick-up times, communicating these with the parents of those students. Many of these students live outside the school boundaries causing this route to cover many miles each day.

Requirements

Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Must hold a standard (Class D) driver’s license; pass a physical, drug test, background check, and background driving check.
Ability to read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
Ability to compose and write correspondence, memos and fill out reports.
Ability to communicate effectively with students, parents, school and other district employees.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of situations.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
The employee is occasionally required to sit.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and drag up to 120 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Must pass annual physical.
In a normal work day, the employee must sit 2-3 hours per day, stand/walk 2 hours per day.
Job requires occasional bending/stooping, squatting/crouching, occasional climbing 3 feet of steps to bus, occasional to frequent pushing/pulling.
Job may require occasional assisting disabled children/students board bus.
Certain routes may require the lifting of disabled children and/or assistance with wheelchairs, seat restraints etc. where the lifting requirement is greater.
Job requires employee to use both feet for repetitive movements as in operating foot controls; to use both hands for such repetitive actions requiring simple to firm grasping.
Employee must possess manual dexterity sufficient to operate bus safely.
Employee must possess visual requirement enough to pass driving test, read signs, road hazards, and be able to operate bus safely in adverse conditions.
Employees must possess hearing requirement enough to hear riders, receive communication on radio and hear outside noises: sirens, horns, brakes, etc. that are necessary to operate bus safely.
Employee must possess speaking requirement enough to give instructions/commands to riders, speak to parents, and other staff.
Employees must have mobility enough to get on and off and around bus to clean and provide routine inspection.
Employee must have mental requirement to operate bus, follow safety rules, make sound decisions in often stressful situations and to handle confrontation effectively.
Employee’s job requires working close to machinery; working in the outdoors with temperature changes; driving motorized equipment; exposure to toxic gas, dust, fumes, gases.
Must be a defensive driver and be extra careful at intersections, railroad crossings, and around other assembly areas.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma preferred or general education degree (GED).

Responsibilities

Obeys all traffic laws.
Observes all mandatory safety regulations.
Maintains discipline when students are being transported.
Keeps to assigned schedule.
Performs proper pre-trip and post-trip inspections.
Discharges students only at authorized stops.
Reports accidents and completes required reports.
Expected to use professional conduct at all times.
Fulfills Board Policy to exhibit dress and appearance that is neat, clean and orderly.
Additional duties that may be assigned by immediate supervisor or above.