Job Description
Job Description – Are you looking for a fast-paced job? Looking for a growing company with plenty of opportunities for personal and career growth? At TransPar, we are currently looking for a motivated individual to join our team serving as a Director of Student Transportation in Bethlehem, PA and Bethlehem Area School District (BASD). Our ideal candidate brings enthusiasm, is goal oriented, and isn’t afraid to dive right in. Who is TransPar? The TransPar Group of Companies is a partnership of leading organizations from across the transportation industry that offer an array of products and services representing the most comprehensive and responsible services in the industry. Our experience with transportation systems of all sizes includes federal, state, municipal, commercial, and school systems (including K-12 and colleges/universities). Our depth and breadth of knowledge and experience allow us to provide innovative solutions to the entire spectrum of the transportation industry. For more than 30 years, we have served our clients and their customers by making their transportation programs safe, reliable, efficient and cost effective. With operations from Hawaii to Rhode Island and many places in between and having provided advisory services across North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia, we are constantly growing and always searching for our next talented team member. JOB OBJECTIVES: Provide leadership in managing, directing, and coordinating safe, effective, efficient, and economical operation of the student transportation system of the client to which you are assigned. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: ·Coordinates with school officials to ensure safe, efficient, and timely pupil transportation service delivery. Develops and maintains responsible routes for all transportation eligible students in accordance with client policies and procedures and as required by the client and contract. Ensures the client receives full value for their transportation expenditures by ensuring that vehicles are assigned and routed to achieve maximum use of their time and capacity. ·Coordinates extracurricular and activity trips for the client. ·Observes weather conditions and makes recommendations concerning safety of bus transportation during inclement weather. Coordinates emergency response network when required. ·Communicates with employees and staff concerning District goals, objectives, and policies. Establishes and maintains effective communication with those contacted in the course of work. ·Maintains a cooperative, harmonious relationship with professionals and others within the school setting which fosters recognition and respect for every individual. ·Coordinates with the appropriate client department and personnel to select, assign, supervise, and evaluate the client’s transportation employees. Oversees compliance with labor standards and resolve labor/employee grievances. Tracks driver and monitor recruiting and training pipelines to ensure appropriate staffing levels are maintained. ·Supervises the work of all employees assigned to the transportation department and develops an in-service training program for all transportation department employees. Interacts daily with drivers, monitors, maintenance, safety, contractors, administrators, parents, etc. to ensure service requirements and obligations are met. Recommends assignments, promotions, transfers, and/or termination of all employees in the transportation department. ·Ensures that transportation related complaints and inquiries from parents, school administrators and bus companies are timely and properly addressed and recorded in TransPar’s Incident Management System (IMS). Cooperates with school administrators in the discipline of students while on school buses. ·Develops and monitors the transportation budget of the client in coordination with appropriate client personnel, policy, and procedures. Responsible for records necessary for pupil and cost accounting. Ensures the transportation department processes payables and receivables accurately and efficiently. ·Works with purchasing and/or other departments of the client to ensure contracts related to school bus operations are bid and awarded in accordance with the client’s policies and procedures, and state/federal law as required. ·Prepares required state, client, and TransPar reports and that all required reports and deliverables are provided to the client as required. ·Serves as a liaison officer between the client and general public in matters of pupil transportation. Attends meetings of school board and act as client liaison with various governing bodies. ·Displays professional behavior when working with students, families, co-workers, and others in the community. ·Conducts