Position: Routing Specialist
Department: Transportation
Wage/Salary Status: Nonexempt
Reports To: Route Coordinator/Director of Transportation
Pay Grade: Per Compensation Manual
Days Employed: Per Compensation Manual
Education and/or Experience:
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Must be 18 years of age or older
- Must meet all contractual, local, state, and federal requirements of a professional driver
- Minimum of two years experience as a school bus driver in a public school district (preferred)
- Must meet all qualifications for a bus driver for DISD
- Must maintain an exemplary driving record per DISD safe driving incentive guidelines
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
- Must have and maintain a valid Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with all appropriate endorsements and classifications and all other required licenses, permits, and certifications.
Specialized knowledge and skills:
- Must have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively and pleasantly in person, via telephone and two-way radio
- Knowledge of record-keeping and office procedures
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritize effectively
- Must demonstrate diplomacy and flexibility at all times
- Complete assigned tasks accurately with minimal supervision
- Follow District and Transportation policies and procedures
- Must be able to work a split shift (i.e., 6:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
ROUTING SPECIALIST ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Assist in solving such conditions as route overloads, routes needing attention, equipment needing repair, loading, and unloading stops
- Monitor and respond to two-way radio communications
- Respond appropriately and decisively to emergencies
- Answer and route telephone calls; record and distribute messages in an accurate and timely manner
- Update assigned route maps and descriptions
- Contact parents/guardians concerning student management problems
- Handle incoming concerns/issues from parents
- Participate in training
- Exercise responsible leadership
- Perform as a substitute driver/monitor as needed
- Take initiative in identifying and working on non-driving tasks
- Upload Skyward every morning and sends copies to archives
- Maintain routing information on Transfinder/Skyward
- Efficient with of Zonar/Infofinder/Skyward/Routefinder programs
- Efficiently manage multiple emails daily from all campuses to assign students to routes/bus stop locations accordingly
- Assist in editing streets/parcels in Routefinder
- Download information from Routefinder into Infofinder
- Perform all other duties assigned by the Director of Transportation
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Supervise students during transport
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Demands:
The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.
- Continuously sit
- Occasionally required to walk or stand
- Frequently bend or twist at the neck and trunk
- Repeat the same hand, arm, or finger motion
- Frequently use hand strength to grasp tools, and drive
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds including students
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and peripheral vision
- Occasionally work in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees
- Walk on slippery surfaces
- Meet deadlines with severe time constraints
- Interact with the public and other peers positively
- Ensure the safety and well-being of others
- Noise level is frequently loud to where you have to raise your voice to be heard