Non-CDL Bus Driver

Position: 2025-2026 Non-CDL Bus Driver
Position Type:
Transportation

Date Posted:
7/1/2025

Location:
OKCPS Operation Center - Transportation
Reports To:
Route Supervisor
FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt
Compensation: 108 (Salary determined by experience.)
Work Days: 178
FTE: 6 hours per day

Non-CDL Driver

Position Summary:

The primary responsibility of a Non-CDL driver is to transport the students to and from school/school activities in the safest possible manner.


** This position has been classified as Safety Sensitive in accordance with the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana and Patient Protection Act and/or the Department of Transportation (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and Board Policy G-37-R3 Medical Marijuana & Safety Sensitive Positions Regulation. All candidates selected for hire or transferred into a Safety Sensitive position must undergo and pass a pre-employment drug screen before being hired or transferred.

Employees holding safety-sensitive positions may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, if they test positive for marijuana components or metabolites, even if they possess a medical marijuana license.**

Essential Duties:

• Drives in a safe and legal manner.
• Transports students of various ages and backgrounds, daily and safely utilizing a 14- passenger vehicle.
• Observes all City, State, and Federal Laws relating to school buses. Enforces the laws, policies and regulations applicable to school vehicles.
• Meets established time schedules, follows established routes and drives in a safe and legal manner.
• Supervises and controls student passengers within established procedures and guidelines.
• Inspects assigned vehicles for defects daily and reports vehicle condition to Supervisor.
• Maintains cleanliness of assigned vehicle.
• Completes necessary paperwork and reports as instructed by Supervisor.
• Works effectively with others to dispense information and to solve problems.
• Attends designated training sessions, workshops and meetings.
• Maintains manner of personal dress and hygiene consistent with Departmental Guidelines and effective job performance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required):

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Must possess a current/valid Oklahoma Class C Driver's License
• Current Motor Vehicle Report must meet established safe driving criteria.
• Requires knowledge of City streets and the ability to read maps and written instructions.
• CPR and First Aid Certification preferred.
• Must be available for a split shift, i.e., mornings and afternoons. (For example 6:00-9:00 AM and again at 1:30-4:30PM.

Physical/Mental Requirements:

The working conditions and physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Work Environment:

• Able to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time,
• Exhibit manual dexterity to enter data into a computer,
• Ability to see and read a street signs and printed material with or without vision aids
• Hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone,
• Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone,
• Physical agility, able to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach
• Ability to lift, push, pull up to 75 pounds

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. The employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the supervisor or appropriate administrator. Oklahoma City Public Schools reserves the right to, update, revise or change job duties as the need prevails. This document is for communication only and not intended to imply a written or implied contract of employment.

The Board of Education and Superintendent may approve alternatives to the listed qualifications.