Router - Transportation

Router - Transportation

Coordinate assignments and schedules of bus drivers, routes, and vehicles to ensure safe, efficient, and economical transportation services.

Qualifications:

• Education/Certification:
  
  High school diploma or GED
• Valid Texas commercial driver's license
• Effective telephone and communication skills
• Ability to receive and give verbal instructions effectively
• Ability to pass alcohol and drug test
• Proficient map reading skills
• Knowledge of WISD routes, streets, and bus stops, preferred
• Two year's experience as a certified school bus driver, preferred

Major

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Routes and Schedules:
• 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 routes and post-route schedules.
• 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 on the computer.
• Communication:
• 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 the community about their complaints about 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 the transportation of special education students.
• Help campuses to place new students on buses and advise drivers of new or dismissed students.
• Vehicle Operation:
• Serve as a substitute bus driver.
• Handle driving and safety records of all new applicants.
• Supervisory Responsibilities:
  
  None
• Equipment used:
  Radio communication equipment, computer, and intercom system.
• Working Conditions:
  
  Frequent district-wide and occasional statewide travel; occasional prolonged and irregular hours. Frequent standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, pushing and pulling. Occasional lifting up to 50 pounds. Prolonged use of computer and repetitive hand motions.