Bus Driver - IDEA Lakeland

Position: Bus Driver - IDEA Lakeland (Immediate Opening)

Bus Driver - IDEA Lakeland (Immediate Opening)

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Description

The Bus Driver is responsible for transporting students over scheduled routes to and from a variety of school sites and ensuring the safety of all passengers, including special education students.

What We Offer Compensation

• Hourly rate ranging between $18.49 for 0 years of experience and $23.11.
• Eligible for a performance bonus based on team performance and goal attainment.

Other Benefits

• Paid Family Leave: up to 8 weeks for birth or adoption.
• Tuition Reimbursement: up to 50% of tuition paid toward a qualifying degree program, up to $5,250 maximum per year.
• Employer-Paid Mental/Behavioral Health: up to 5 face‑to‑face counseling sessions within a year, unlimited 24/7 telephonic counseling, and other work‑life services at no cost.
• Dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses, professional development.
• Relocation allowance to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

Qualifications

• Education:
  
  GED or High School Diploma.
• Experience:
  
  Operation of large passenger vehicles; equivalent combination; ability to manage student behavior.
• License or Certification:
  Valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with class P (passenger) and S (school bus) endorsements.
• Completed bus driver safety training course.
• Must be over 21 years old.
• Pass alcohol and drug tests.
• DOT Physical Examination.

What You’ll Do – Accountabilities Safely transports students

• Drive a school bus safely in accordance with time schedules; transporting students to and from their homes, a variety of school sites, and on field trips as assigned.
• Maintain order and proper discipline of passengers; resolve disputes, document and report severe disciplinary cases.
• Conduct established safety and operational inspection of assigned vehicle daily.

Understands the basics of transporting students

• Oversee the loading and unloading of students, releasing students to authorized individuals, and assure that safety belts are fastened.
• Maintain a variety of records and reports including mileage, routing, maintenance, and time schedules.
• Notify appropriate individuals of any delays in scheduled route.
• Ensure proper credentials (CDL, Medical Card, & Region One) updated accordingly to DOT and IDEA policy.

Must be able to understand and take directions and feedback well

• Have an open communication channel with managers of campuses they drive.
• Able to accept negative and positive feedback.
• Able to self–reflect on own performance to improve the operation.

Must manage multiple tasks by prioritizing work

• Adapt to changing circumstances while performing various tasks.
• Handle various tasks simultaneously within established time constraints.

Be able to work on an open calendar

• Work on evenings, weekends, holidays, etc.
• Expected to work a minimum of 32 hours per week – not including Extra Curricular Activities assigned by campus.
• Able to work extended hours when necessary to meet business needs.

Values and Characteristics

• Believes in and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college.
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, wants to be held accountable for them.
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly.
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes.
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high‑growth environment; comfortable with ambiguity and change.
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization.
• Works through silos and forges strong cross‑departmental relationships to achieve outcomes.
• We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.

About IDEA Public Schools

At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi‑state network of tuition‑free, Pre‑K‑12 public…