About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma.
Tasks
- Operate buses, school busses or streetcars to transport passengers.
- Report delays, mechanical problems and accidents.
- Direct passengers during emergency evacuation procedures.
- Ensure para-transit passengers board vehicle safely.
- Deal with public.
- Complete logbooks and reports.
- Deal with difficult passengers and resolve conflicts.
- Communicate with passengers, dispatchers or other drivers using two-way radio systems.
- Ensure children's safety when boarding and leaving buses and crossing street while bus is stopped.
- Maintain control of student activities during travel to prevent distractions or behaviours that could compromise safety.
- Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle.
- Type of experience: School bus driver.
- Intercity bus driver.
- Para-transit driver.
- Buses.
- Security and safety: Child welfare check.
- Criminal record check.
- Driving record check (abstract).
- Drug test.
- Transportation/travel information: Valid driver's licence.
- Willing to travel.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Ability to distinguish between colours.
- Attention to detail.
- Personal suitability: Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Flexibility.
- Judgement.
- Reliability.
- Screening questions: Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Flexible hours.
- Morning.
- On call.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.
- Workplace information: On the road job.