About this role
Title: Transportation Supervisor
Qualifications
High School Diploma or Higher
Job Skills: Excellent communication skills; strong organizational skills, knowledge about South Carolina school bus safety guidelines and regulations; strong office management skills; must be able to perform other physical actions for extended time periods. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
Report to: Director of Transportation
Location: Area 3 Transportation Office
Hours:8:00 am- 4:30 pm
Job Goal: To professionally represent transportation, and to ensure the safety of students, drivers, and the community will not be compromised. Perform daily in accordance with South Carolina state laws, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and Sumter School District guidelines. Complete the tasks necessary to provide a safe and efficient transportation system for all students and drivers.
Performance Responsibilities
- Assist with the supervision of transporting all students in a safe manner.
- Implements school bus safety rules, reports to the director when rules have been violated by students and/or drivers.
- 3. Reports vandalism on district and state buses.
- 4. Liaison between school bus maintenance shop and district.
- 5. Assist with checking on different parking sites.
- 6. Assist with the investigation of bus breakdowns and late buses.
- 7. Assist with answering phones, checking on stops, parent complaints, etc.
- 8. Assist drivers with duties as appointed by the director.
- 9. Assist the routing firm with complaints regarding bus stops.
- 10. Point of contact for Seon camera systems and Safety Vision with repairs, etc..
- 11. Up-dates Director daily.
- 12. Fill out a travel log daily.
- 13. Assist the Director in all aspects of transportation.
- 14. Work with others consistently in a cooperative, respectful manner, and work as a team member with the other transportation
Personnel.
- 15. Performs all other duties and responsibilities as designated by the
Director and/or the Superintendent.
- 17. Keeps current and accurate records of attendance.
- 18. Processes leave forms for drivers, office personnel and monitors for Director's approval.
- 19. Turn in sick leave forms for drivers for the Director's signature.
- 20. Completes forms from the District Office and the State Department.
- 21. Maintains driver records as required.
- 22. Maintain a daily driver attendance log and the records for substitute drivers.
- 23. Classifies, sorts, and files correspondence or other data.
- 24. Maintains transportation telephone directory.
- 25. Maintains all transportation files.
- 26. Maintains logs and registers.
- 27. Place students on the appropriate bus (within 48 hours) based on their IEP, or 504 requirements with contact made to district contact personnel.
- 28. Fill Special Needs supply requests for drivers.
- 29. Prepare Special Needs green cards for drivers, review, send for corrections, copy and forward them to Medicaid specialists at the district office.
- 30. Maintains records required by policy, regulation, law or good practice.
- 31. Responds to requests for information.
- 32. Assists with imputing data, correspondence and reports.
- 33. Assists with screening and routing; places and receives telephone calls, record messages.
- 34. Assist with calling in bus break-downs from drivers.
- 35. Switch drivers and monitors for necessary coverage with Director's approval.
- 36. Attends all required training/conferences
- 37. Works with others consistently in a cooperative and respectful manner and works as a team member with the other transportation personnel.
- 38. Must be able to work extended hours as needed.
- 39. Monitors school bus drivers during their daily assignments via radio and site investigation.
- 40. Receives and responds to concerns, complaints and inquiries from
District personnel and parents.
- 41. Investigates bus accidents/incidents and make recommendations for the appropriate response; completes accident reports as occurs for submission to the State Department of Education.
- 42. Performs all other duties as assigned or designated by the
Director, Chief Operations Officer and or Superintendent.
Terms: 233 days. Salary and work year to be recommended by the
Superintendent and approved by the Board.
Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated with provisions of
Sumter School District policy. Sumter School District is an equal opportunity employer.