SUPERVISING OMNIBUS OPERATOR
Supervising Omnibus Operator is a competitive local-government title, the kind you test for: the exam result, not a hiring manager's pick, decides where you land in line.
It expects 3 years of relevant experience and a commercial driver's license.
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Supervising Omnibus Operator is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under direction, supervises the activities of Omnibus Operators; may also drive, clean, service, and make minor repairs to vehicles used in transporting persons on assigned established routes or to special activities, events, or destinations; does related work as required.
Examples of work
- Organizes assigned work and develops effective work methods.
- Gives suitable assignments to subordinates.
- Prepares clear, sound, accurate, and informative reports.
- Checks vehicles to see that prescribed schedules are maintained.
- Sees that vehicles stop only at designated locations.
- Notes whether vehicles load and discharge passengers properly.
- Assigns routes and passenger pickup points to operators.
- Dispatches vehicles for emergency runs.
- May drive a motor vehicle with a passenger capacity of at least six (6) persons for transporting persons on trips and established assigned routes.
- Checks, cleans, and performs minor servicing of vehicles.
- Checks vehicles for operating safety, proper safety devices, gas, battery, oil, and water before departure.
- Establishes and maintains needed records and files.
- May be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Experience
Three (3) years of experience in operating a motor vehicle used in the transportation of six (6) or more persons.
License
Appointees must possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey. Appointees may also be required to possess a valid Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and applicable endorsements for the class and type of vehicle being operated.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of the state and local laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures dealing with the public transportation operations and of motor vehicle regulations.
- Knowledge of the proper methods of making inspections.
- Knowledge of the proper procedures used in operating vehicles, and of the types of violations commonly found in vehicle operations.
- Knowledge of the geography of the jurisdiction and of the safety precautions followed in dealing with passengers.
- Ability to analyze problems involving the operation of vehicles.
- Ability to organize and give suitable work assignments to subordinates.
- Ability to drive vehicles in a skilled and safe manner.
- Ability to check, clean, service, and make minor and emergency repairs to vehicles.
- Ability to maintain essential records.
- Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
Note
The responsibility for ensuring that employees possess the required motor vehicle license, commensurate with the class and type of vehicles they operate, rests with the Appointing Authority.