Director Of Transportation

Director of Transportation

The Director of Transportation provides leadership, oversight, coordination, and continuous improvement support for the district's student transportation services. This position serves as the district's primary liaison with the contracted transportation provider and works closely with district leadership, school administrators, families, staff, and community partners to ensure safe, reliable, cost-effective, and responsive transportation services.

The Director of Transportation is responsible for supporting the successful transition to and ongoing implementation of the district's transportation services agreement. This includes monitoring vendor performance, reviewing route efficiency, supporting communication systems, addressing service concerns, analyzing transportation data, and identifying opportunities to improve student safety, operational effectiveness, customer service, and cost control.

The Director of Transportation is adept at the metrics of successful transportation enterprise, adaptive problem-solving and is adept at sharing progress with all constituent groups in the district and community.

• Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred.
• Successful leadership experience in transportation, school operations, logistics, public administration, business operations, or a related field preferred.
• Experience working in a school district or public-sector setting preferred.
• Experience with contract management, vendor oversight, route analysis, operations, logistics, or transportation systems preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze systems, review data, solve problems, and make recommendations for improved efficiency and service.
• Strong communication, collaboration, organization, and customer service skills.
• Ability to work effectively with district leaders, vendors, school administrators, families, staff, and community partners.
• Knowledge of student transportation safety practices, compliance expectations, and operational procedures preferred.

• Student-centered and safety-focused.
• Collaborative and relationship-oriented.
• Systems thinker with strong attention to detail.
• Able to balance service quality, efficiency, cost control, and customer service.
• Comfortable working through transition, change management, and continuous improvement.
• Strong problem-solver who can support both daily operations and long-term planning.

• Provide district-level leadership and oversight for student transportation services.
• Serve as the district's primary liaison with the contracted transportation provider.
• Support the successful implementation of transportation services during and after the transition to a new provider.
• Monitor transportation operations to ensure services are safe, dependable, efficient, and aligned with district expectations.
• Work collaboratively with the transportation provider to address operational issues, service concerns, staffing needs, communication challenges, and performance expectations.
• Support a culture of customer service, problem-solving, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Build and maintain an effective working relationship with the district's contracted transportation provider.
• Monitor contract implementation, service expectations, timelines, reporting requirements, and performance measures.
• Review transportation concerns, complaints, and service disruptions with the vendor and district leadership to ensure timely resolution.
• Support regular check-ins, performance reviews, and communication structures with the transportation provider.
• Assist with reviewing contract-related issues, annual cost increases, service levels, and operational adjustments.
• Collaborate with district leadership to ensure the transportation agreement supports student safety, service quality, cost efficiency, and operational effectiveness.

• Lead and support ongoing review of bus routes, stops, schedules, ridership, transportation zones, and service patterns.
• Work with the transportation provider to identify route efficiencies and opportunities for improved service reliability.
• Analyze transportation data to support decisions related to routing, timing, staffing, equipment, fuel, bus utilization, and cost control.
• Assist with a comprehensive audit of transportation operations to identify strengths, concerns, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Make recommendations to district leadership regarding transportation systems, service models, routes, communication practices, and operational improvements.
• Support long-term planning related to transportation services, district growth, program needs, budget impact, and student access.

• Promote safe transportation practices for all students
• Monitor and support expectations related to student safety, driver professionalism, bus…