HEAD BUS DRIVER
Head Bus Driver is one of New Jersey's state civil service classifications.
To be eligible you bring 2 years of relevant experience and a commercial driver's license. State payroll currently lists about 13 people in the title, most of them at Children and Families.
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Head Bus Driver appears on the State payroll at one department, Department of Children and Families.
State departments
| Employer | Employees |
|---|---|
| Department of Children and Families | 13 |
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Who employs this title
State payroll records show 13 people working under this title. The median actual salary is $58,520. The agencies employing the most are:
- Children and Families (13)
Counts from NJ YourMoney agency payroll. See statewide workforce analytics.
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 the Regional Coordinator of Transportation, Bureau of Day Training Services, Department of Human Services, functions as the extended line authority of the Regional Coordinator of Transportation to maintain an adequate and appropriate service provided to students and clients of Day Training and Adult Activity Programs on a local basis. Has charge of and supervises the operation, maintenance, scheduling, and reporting of all vehicles assigned to specific locale, and the hiring and supervision of drivers; does related work as required.
Examples of work
- Enforces bureau transportation policies, standards, and procedures on a center or local level. This responsibility may cover the operation of seven (7) to fourteen (14) vehicles, depending on the geographic locations of the program site(s).
- Determines the safest and most efficient routes for student/client transportation.
- Advertises, recruits, hires, and trains enough drivers to provide uninterrupted service for students/clients of the programs. This includes the maintenance of an adequate substitute drivers list.
- Plans, organizes, and assigns the work of the organizational unit and evaluates employee performance and conduct, enabling the effective recommendation of the hiring, firing, promoting, and disciplining of subordinates.
- Investigates personnel problems and makes recommendations for their resolution.
- Investigates, resolves, and reports parent complaints concerning transportation.
- Maintains all vehicles in proper and safe working order through routine scheduled maintenance and securing emergency reports.
- Compiles and processes records and monthly reports on vehicle maintenance, mileage, credit card purchases, and driver's weekly time sheets.
- Determines whether or not driving conditions permit the safe transportation of students/clients.
- Will be required to drive transportation vehicles on an "as needed basis" for the transportation of clients to and from centers and center activities.
- May be required to engage in lifting clients when working in a setting which provides direct services to clients who are nonambulant, or who are semiambulant, and/or have severe physical handicaps.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and computerized information system used by the agency, office, or related units.
Experience
Two (2) years of experience in transportation and/or traffic control work involving the operation, maintenance, and scheduling of buses or other systems of personnel transport.
License
Appointees will be required to possess a valid New Jersey Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and passenger endorsement for the class and type of vehicle to be operated, issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of the organization and operation of a student transportation system.
- Knowledge of safety precautions followed in dealing with handicapped individuals.
- Knowledge of the problems involved in the operation, maintenance, repair, supply, and routing of a multi-vehicle system.
- Ability to analyze vehicle accidents to determine causes and means of preventing future accidents.
- Ability to organize assigned work and develop effective working procedures to give suitable assignments or instructions to subordinates and to check the performance of their work.
- Ability to work harmoniously with supervisors, peers, and subordinates.
- Ability to prepare detailed correspondence in the course of official duties.
- Ability to establish and maintain essential records and files.
- 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 essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
- CODES: MER 04/27/2010
Note
Ability to physically lift, move, and position clients as needed.