Dispatcher- Transportation Dept

Transportation Coordinator

Coordinate assignments, bus driver schedules, routes, and vehicles to ensure safe, efficient, and economical transportation services for the district.

Qualifications:

• Education/Certification:
  
  High school diploma or GED
• Special knowledge/
  
  Skills:
  
  Effective telephone and communication skills
• Ability to receive and give verbal instructions effectively
• Proficient map reading skills
• Experience:
  
  Experience in a public school and/or transportation setting preferred

Major

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Assist or handle assignments of bus drivers, bus routes, vehicles, and substitutes for morning and afternoon shifts.
• Assist with or coordinate extracurricular transportation.
• Prepare data required to plan bus route and post route schedule.
• Assist with or prepare special education bus routes and ensure that drivers maintain a route folder with accurate descriptions of their morning and afternoon routes.
• Coordinate and schedule all summer school routes.
• Prepare and update district maps showing areas served by each bus. Distribute maps to schools and within the district as directed.
• Write, schedule, and keep regular routes up-to-date in computer.
• Dispatch drivers and vehicles and communicate with them using a telephone and two-way radio.
• Notify drivers, parents, and school personnel of any changes in a student's bus service, such as an address change, change in pick-up and drop-off location, change in time or bus change.
• Maintain good public relations with students and school personnel.
• Communicate with students, parents, staff, and community about their complaints with drivers, buses, routes, and safety.
• Communicate with drivers about problems or concerns they have with parents, students, teachers, and coworkers.
• Interact with special program administrators and school officials concerning transportation of special education students.
• Help campuses to place new students on buses and advise drivers of new or dismissed students.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Equipment Used:
Radio communication equipment, computer, and intercom system, various phones, computer programs, printers, copiers, calculators, typewriters, fax machines, and other office equipment.

Working Conditions:

Mental Demands:
Clear speech; ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal form; input, interpret, and maintain accurate data; maintain emotional control under stress; ability to operate computers; ability to meet established deadlines.

Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
Repetitive hand motions; prolonged use of computer terminal; sitting for prolonged periods of time; occasional prolonged and irregular hours; early shift work; occasional exposure to hot or cold temperatures; moderate lifting and carrying.

Calendar: 226 Work Days

Salary:
Minimum: $15.08 per hour