Transportation Specialist - Driver
Hardinsburg, KY
Full Time
Entry Level
JOB PURPOSE: Transportation Specialists provide safe transportation services for clients utilizing the agency’s transportation service. Responsible for maintaining accurate service and van records and safe operation of agency vehicles.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
- Provides transportation service to enrolled participants and assist to and from the door of their residence to the vehicle and/or service destination.
- Maintains accurate van reports.
- Ensures all riders are accounted for and that some individual/program pays for transportation services.
- Provides safe assistance to each passenger boarding the vehicle.
- Opens and closes all vehicle doors.
- Must wear seat belt.
- Ensures daily check in with Lead Driver.
- Observes manifests and prepares for trips scheduled on the following day.
- Checks engine oil each day before starting the vehicle.
- Attends staff meetings and training sessions as necessary.
- Establishes and maintains effective work relationships within the agency and the community.
- Prepares and submits timesheet as required.
- Ensures that all vehicle doors are unlocked before starting the day
- Ensure all vehicle doors are locked when away from it.
- Checks for proper clearance before pulling under low roofs, carports, or drive-in windows.
- Stops at all railroad crossings.
- Assures vehicle cleanliness and maintenance.
- Does not leave the vehicle(s) with the engine running.
- Reports all injuries to the Safety and Security Officer.
- Remains familiar with and follows safety rules, procedures, and policies.
- Participates in quarterly safety meetings.
- Operates agency equipment in the way it was intended.
- Responsible for managing on-board safety and security incidents from impact until supervisors and/or first responders arrive.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Must be able to always drive with both hands on the steering wheel.
- Must be able to check all fluid levels.
- Must assist all clients on and off vehicles.
- On all lift/ramp equipped vehicles, assist wheelchairs onto the vehicle; roll wheelchair to the locking device in vehicle and squat down to secure the wheelchair; open and close all doors. The factory weight limit for lifts on wheelchair buses is 800 lbs.
- Carry the 5 limit bags of groceries from vehicles to the home (weight 10 – 15 lbs).
- Perform vehicle inspection, looking underneath the vehicle for leaks.
- Listen and communicate with the cell phone provided by company.
- Ease a client carefully onto the ground, hard surface, or floor to perform CPR.
- Must be able to drive the vehicle without the help of pillow’s/wood blocks, etc. to reach the vehicle controls, such as the accelerator.
- Must be able to sit for a period of 2 hours. (Sitting time depends on the distance of trip.)
- Must be able to pass all pre-employment screenings.
- DOT physical/drug screen required.
- $15.00 per hour.
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
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