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Job Summary
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Job Description
Learner transportation
- Drives a school transportation vehicle within a prescribe route(s) in accordance with time schedules.
- Picking up and discharging students at designated stops.
- Transports students and teacher on field trips to various locations; planning necessary route(s) and stops as needed.
- Maintains order a proper discipline of student passengers according to district policy.
General Worker Duties
- General Maintenance and facility support
- Receive requests for maintenance of facilities.
- Check facilities daily to check that everything is working and maintained.
- Complete any facilities or maintenance required such as plumbing.
- Make facilities manager aware of any repairs required.
- Complete all general maintenance across the facility.
- Check maintenance consumables and advise facilities manager of requirements.
- Store and maintain tools for maintenance.
- Provide general support on security and access control across the facilities.
- Provides general support on traffic management.
- Garden Maintenance.
- Review daily work roster for required duties.
- Maintenance grass and flower beds.
- Cleaning and maintaining the garden across the facility.
- Advise the facilities manager of requirements in the garden.
- Check gardening consumables and advise facilities manager of requirements.
- Store and maintain tools for gardening.
Health and Safety
- Conduct safety and operational inspection of assigned vehicle daily.
- Reports needed mechanical repairs when necessary.
- Services buses with gas, diesel fuel, and oil; checks and when necessary, fills tires and batteries.
- Performs periodical safety drills as required by law, completing necessary reports upon request.
- Maintains cleanliness of vehicle to ensure safe operating condition.
- Attends various meetings regarding safety, first aid and training updates as required.
Record keeping
- Completes periodic mileage and other reports including passenger counts.
Key Skills / Requirements
- Valid Driver’s Licence (EC1 or C1 – Heavy motor vehicle up to 16000kg) and PDP.
- Fluent in English.
- Must be able to perform general worker duties
- Experience in driving a school bus or similar type of position would be a recommendation.
- Responsible for performing various tasks as required of a driver.
- Punctuality.
- Must be helpful, energetic, responsible and reliable.
- May be required to work overtime from to time.
- Able to communicate with learners, parents and staff.
- Enthusiastic and trustworthy.
- Able to work in a team.
- Minimum requirement of a Grade 12 (Matric).
- A clear criminal record.