Transit Vehicle Operator This safety sensitive position carry out duties pertaining to the safe, courteous and efficient operation of assigned transit vehicle including customer service and fare collection.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
Operate buses safely and defensively on pre-established City routes, maintaining a time schedule.
Pick up passengers and discharge passengers at designated bus stops and assist any special needs passengers.
Ensure passengers safety in the event of accident or vehicle break down.
Collect and account for fares.
Provide information and directions for passengers, both on and off the bus.
Maintain ridership information.
Maintain a clean work area (Interior of bus).Operate a 2-way mobile radio.
Complete incident and accident report forms.
Adhere to all safety guidelines and report any unsafe condition to my supervisor.
Operating a city vehicle is required for the essential functions.
Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Education and experience:
High school or GED, plus specialized schooling and/or on the job education in a specific skill area; e.g. data processing, clerical/administrative, equipment operation, etc, plus 7 to 11 months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Communication skills: Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, general public and other employees of the organization.
Mathematical skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar graphs.
Critical thinking skills: Ability to utilize common sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral or diagrammed instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving several known variables in situations of a routine nature.
Required certificates, licenses, registrations: Arkansas CDL Class C-P2, Valid Driver License
Preferred certificates, licenses, registrations: Not indicated.
Software skills required: Not indicated.
Supervision received: Under immediate supervision, performs general assignments of work, with periodic check of performance by supervisor.
Planning: Limited responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.
Decision making: Performs work operations which permit infrequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and which would only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved to a slight degree.
Mental demand: Moderate mental demand. Operations requiring almost continuous attention, but work is sufficiently repetitive that a habit cycle is formed; operations requiring intermittent directed thinking to determine or select materials, equipment or operations where variable sequences may be selected by the employee.
Analytical ability / problem solving: Repetitive. Activities or duties using a pre-determined set of processes or directions coupled with nearby supervision. Learned things in situations where choice is simple or patterned.
Responsibility for work of others: Not indicated.
Responsibility for funds, property and equipment: Occasionally responsible for organization's property where carelessness, error, or misappropriation would result in moderate damage or moderate monetary loss to the organization. The total value for the above would range from $5,000 to $150,000.Accuracy: Probable errors of internal scope should ordinarily be detected within the department or office in which they occur, but may affect the work of others within the unit, requiring additional expenditure of time to trace errors and make all necessary corrections. Errors would require a moderate amount of time to correct.
Accountability: Freedom to act: Standardized. Accepted processes covered by well-defined standardized policies and procedures with supervisory review.
Annual monetary impact: None. Job does not create any dollar monetary impact for the organization.
Impact on end results: Modest impact. Job has some impact on the organizations end results, but still from an indirect level. Provides assistance and support services that facilitates decision making by others.
Public contact: Frequent contacts with general public, patrons, or other outside representatives, wherein the manner of handling these contacts has a bearing on the organization's position and operation.
Employee contact: Contacts occasionally with others beyond immediate associates, but generally of a routine nature. May obtain, present or discuss data, but only as pertains to an immediate and specific assignment. No responsibility for obtaining cooperation or approval of action or decision.
Use of machines, equipment and/or computers: Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, driver's license/cdl, etc.)
Working conditions:
Somewhat disagreeable working conditions. Continuously exposed to one or two elements such as noise, intermittent standing, walking; and occasional pushing, carrying, or lifting.
Environmental conditions: While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outdoor weather conditions; frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts; and occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Physical activities: Highly repetitive, low physical. Highly repetitive type of work which requires concentration in the performance of tasks for consistent time cycles as prescribed by the tasks.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; regularly required to reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, talk or hear, taste or smell; and frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; occasionally required to stand, walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.
Additional information: Not indicated.
