Supervisor of Transportation

Supervisor of Transportation

Shenandoah County Public Schools Central Office - Woodstock, Virginia

Job : 5683019

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Apr 30, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

260 days per year, Administrative salary schedule-Grade 2

Position Type: Full-Time

Plans, directs, coordinates, and oversees all functions pertaining to the operation and maintenance of the division's transportation department. This includes personnel, equipment, and facilities. The primary concern is safe, efficient, economical transportation of students between home and school on a regular schedule, and between other destinations within or outside the division boundaries on a special scheduling basis.

• Provide for safety at all bus stops.
• Establish procedures to guarantee the safety of the school bus operation compliant with mandate, law, and policy.
• Provide training for bus drivers to guarantee safety and efficiency, and as a means of obtaining CDLs.
• Provide instruction in the behavior management of all students.
• Provide instruction in the management of special needs students.
• Oversee transportation for special needs students during the regular school year.
• Oversee special transportation for summer school and other special needs circumstances.
• Oversee scheduling of bus routes primarily utilizing a computerized bus routing system in the most effective manner to transport students to school in the most efficient manner.
• Provide for a pool of adequately trained substitute bus drivers.
• Provide personnel procedures consistent with policy to recruit, hire, and train bus drivers.
• Collect and analyze accident data.
• Provide for the maintenance of the school bus and car fleet in accordance with mandate, law, and policy.
• Provide information about the fleet leading to the purchase of new vehicles and declaring vehicles surplus.
• Provide for appropriate fiscal management, according to law and policy, of all allocated funds assigned to the supervisor.
• Provide for ongoing and accurate inventory, and specific procedures to track and account for all items in inventory according to time and use.
• Evaluate all elements of the transportation program on a continuing basis.
• Evaluate the safety of road conditions during inclement weather and provide timely information to the superintendent.

Other duties may be assigned.

Responsible for the supervision and evaluation of all bus drivers, mechanics, transportation routing specialist and other bus garage personnel.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Five years of experience in pupil transportation in an organization having full maintenance and operations of transportation services, or similar management experience.

• Supervision of personnel
• Routing and scheduling
• Bus driver training
• Accident investigation
• Bus maintenance
• Inventory control
• Cost accounting
• Budgeting, record keeping
• Preparation of bus bid specifications

Must be knowledgeable of safety standards, laws, codes, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures relating to pupil transportation.

Preference will be given to candidates with a minimum of a bachelor's degree. Position incumbent must obtain within the first year of employment in the position a Virginia driver’s license with a commercial driver’s license, a Virginia State School Bus Driver’s Certificate, or obtain proof of equivalent proficiency.

Incumbent is required to be a resident of Shenandoah County or become a resident within 4 months of obtaining employment in this position.

Demonstrate ability to establish cooperative relations with other division staff members, subordinates, students, and parents.

Ability to communicate effectively.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of parents, employees, school administrators, and the school board.

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Must possess or acquire a valid Virginia driver's license with a commercial driver's license, a Virginia State school bus driver's…