Provide essential transportation services to individuals who rely on specialized transit options, including elderly passengers and those with disabilities as directed by Transit Operations Supervisor. Responsibilities include safely operating vehicles and ensuring comfort, adhering to the daily manifest, and safety of passengers throughout their journey. Assist passengers with boarding and disembarking, securing mobility aids, and maintaining vehicle cleanliness and safety standards. Position is subject to FTA pre-employment and random drug and alcohol testing.
Thorough knowledge of safe operation of a public transit vehicle, including complete familiarization with its systems and safety features, assigned routes, state and local traffic rules, laws and regulations and defensive driving. Ability to operate a bus or van safely, operated and/or utilize all standard safety equipment including safety harnesses, restraints, and any other equipment required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, work cooperatively with others, exercise tact and diplomacy, maintain effectiver relationship with supervisors and the general public, and to communicate effectively orally and in writing. Willingness to perform various job-related duties as situations arise and a strong sense of teamwork.
PHYSICAL ABILITIES INCLUDE:
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Must be able to hear.
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Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Ability to use hands to finger, handle, or operate objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch; and taste or smell. Each of the listed activities also requires standing, reaching, sitting, walking, bending, stooping, climbing on stools, and ladders, and routinely life and carry items and boxes up to forty (40) pounds.
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Use of two-way radio and long periods of sitting. Physically capable of operating and/or utilities all standard safety equipment including safety harnesses, restraints, and any other equipment required by the American Disabilities Act of 1990. Driving, fueling, cleaning and maintaining a public transit bus.
