Route Planner

Job Summary

The San Angelo ISD is seeking a highly skilled Transportation Coordinator to join our team. As a key member of our transportation department, you will be responsible for maintaining bus routes for the general education program, special needs program, and co-curricular activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and operate bus routing software to ensure efficient and safe transportation of students.
• Prepare data needed to plan bus routes, including district maps and accurate route schedules.
• Develop route assignments and communicate with bus drivers, including floating drivers.
• Notify drivers of changes, including address, pick-up and drop-off location, time, and bus number.
• Assist campuses in placing new students on bus routes and advise drivers of new or dismissed students.
• Assist with special education bus routes and ensure that drivers maintain a route folder with accurate descriptions of their morning and afternoon routes.
• Responsible for all co-curricular travel to and from campuses and facilities.
• Serve as a bus driver or monitor, and perform other duties as needed.

Clerical Duties

• Ensure community relationships and partnerships with oversight of all contractual agreements of transporting different organizations.
• Assist the director in financial planning, executing, and budgeting as needed.

Communication

• Maintain confidentiality of student information, employee information, and District matters.
• Communicate information verbally and in writing, via schedules and memos.
• Foster good school/community relations and good relations among all school employees.

Professional Growth and Development

• Participate in professional learning activities related to assigned duties, staff meetings, and special events as assigned.
• Keep informed of laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and innovative practices related to the school transportation program.
• Attend and complete required training program to maintain safety certification.

Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors

• Tools/Equipment Used: Standard office equipment, two-way radio, school bus and vehicles, safety equipment.
• Posture: Prolonged sitting, frequent standing, reaching, climbing, bending/stooping, kneeling/squatting/crouching, pushing/pulling, twisting, reaching.
• Motion: Frequent repetitive hand and arm motions, keyboarding, use of mouse, wrist flexion/extension.
• Vision: Close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Lifting: Lifting and carrying up to 30 pounds without assistance, 30-55 pounds with assistance, and more than 55 pounds with appropriate assistance.
• Environment: Work is performed indoors, outdoors, and in bus or vehicle; regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, hot and cold temperatures, moving mechanical parts, dust, fumes, airborne particles, toxic chemicals.
• Mental Demands: Maintain emotional control under stress, work with frequent interruptions.

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