Job Description
Salary: $20.00 - $25.00 Hourly
Location : Annapolis
Job Type: Part-Time
Job Number: 202500061
Department: PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION
Division: TRANSPORTATION-P/T BUS DRIVER
Opening Date: 02/05/2025
Closing Date: Continuous
Job Summary Operates a transit bus or other vehicular equipment for transporting patrons; collects fares and oversees the safety of passengers; and does related work as required.
Essential Job Functions - Performs pre-trip inspections prior to leaving the garage and post-trip vehicle inspections upon return;
- Drives City transit vehicles on a number of assigned routes, picking up and discharging passengers at designated locations according to schedule;
- Assists passengers with disabilities;
- Serves as relief driver and/or a special route driver for senior citizens or the handicapped;
- Ensures proper fares or tickets are collected from each passenger;
- Reports vehicle defects and problems to mechanics and supervisors;
- Reports all accidents involving City vehicles or passengers immediately to Police Department and supervisor;
- Keeps vehicle fueled, clean and in orderly condition, including sweeping, dusting and washing the interior;
- Complies with all laws and regulations concerning the operation of the vehicle including safety precautions and posted speed limits; and
- Performs other related job duties as assigned.
Qualifications Education and Experience
High School Diploma or an acceptable equivalency diploma (GED); and no related experience required.
Special Qualifications:
Possession of a valid Maryland Class B Commercial Driver's License with passenger and air brake endorsements.
Consent to chemical substance screening consistent with mandated Federal, State, and City guidelines and programs, to include random tests for the detection of drug or alcohol use.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of the principles of operation of buses or other transit vehicles and of the street and road system of the City;
- Knowledge of State regulations and laws pertaining to the operation of transit vehicles and of driving courtesy and safety;
- Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions and to establish and maintain good public relations;
- Ability to operate small office equipment, including copy machines or telephones; and
- Ability to operate and repair small/light equipment.
Employment Conditions PHYSICAL/MENTAL DEMANDS
The work is medium work, which requires exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Balancing ability: sufficient to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
- Climbing ability: sufficient to ascend or descend ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
- Crawling ability: sufficient to move about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
- Crouching ability: sufficient to bend the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Feeling ability: sufficient to perceive attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
- Dexterity ability: sufficient to pick, pinch, grasp, type, or otherwise work, primarily with fingers and palm rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Handling ability: sufficient to pick, hold, or otherwise work, primarily with the whole hand.
- Hearing ability: sufficient to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
- Kneeling ability: sufficient to bend legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
- Mental Acuity: sufficient to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
- Pulling ability: sufficient to use upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
This position is not eligible for benefits.
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Do you possess a valid driver's license?
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Do you have a commercial driver's license
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Do you have a high school diploma or GED
Required Question
Job Tags
Hourly pay, Work at office, Immediate start