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Transit Driver
Harlan County Health System
2024-11-05 21:36:56
Alma, Nebraska, United States
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Transport & Logistics
Job description
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Entry level position, providing safe transportation to community members in different types of vehicles including wheelchair accessorized buses and vans. This position requires polite, professional and patient behavior when dealing with riders. Dependability, performing minor maintenance and upkeep of vehicles as well as using electronic mobile devices to enter data is part of ensuring compliant, safe and consistent rides to requested destinations.
Essential Functions: (The following are not intended to serve as a comprehensive list of all duties performed, only a representative summary.)
- Keep in communication with the Transit Manager and Dispatch throughout the shift, advising and updating any changes about drives, rides and schedules as soon as safely possible.
- Track and enter information into mobile devices all applicable information such as vehicle inspections, ride completions including such things as notifying dispatch of additional stops, additional passengers and/or changes to the originally planned ride.
- Track and enter payments and monies from riders using both electronic devices and handwritten documentation and turn it in to the appropriate person at the end of the shift.
- Safely drive passengers to their destinations, assisting passenger's curb to curb.
- Represent the transit service in a professional manner including behaving and communicating with passengers in a polite and respectful manner.
- Inspect vehicle daily using checklist prior to driving the vehicles and at end of the day.
- Monitor and maintain vehicle during shift such as keeping an appropriate gas level throughout the shift.
- Clean and maintain the inside of the vehicle you are driving such as vacuuming floors, seats and throwing out garbage.
- Maintain assigned records, receipts, and reports as necessary.
- Comply with all regulatory policies, statutes and laws.
- Perform all other duties as required and assigned.
Non-Essential Functions:
- Perform other duties as assigned or requested.
Work Environment:
This position's main duties are conducted out of the Alma Courthouse or HCHS. Work is generally performed in an environment subject to weather, fumes, chemicals and contact with the public. Considerable interaction with people requires frequent hearing and speech along with frequent walking and standing. Use of visual capacity including depth perception, color vision, and peripheral vision consistent with driving shuttle. Also, driving requires frequent use of fingers, hands and arms with frequent sitting, bending, kneeling, twisting, and lifting of 25-50 lbs.
Qualifications:
- Must hold a valid Nebraska driver's license and clean driving record. Available and willing to drive an entire shift as needed.
- Must be able to pass random drug test before hire, as well as during employment.
- Knowledge of federal, state and local laws with respect to driving and public transportation.
- Knowledge of roads and maps in the city and county.
- Ability to communicate effectively and interact professionally.
- Ability to remain calm and respectful during interactions with difficult people.
- Ability to maintain records and information.
- Skills to safely operate vehicles.
- Skills to maintain clean and sanitary conditions.
- Skills to obtain and maintain required certifications
Security/Access:
- Will have access to facility 24 hours a day
- Will have access to confidential information abiding by the organization's privacy policies and regulations concerning this information
- All Harlan County Health System users will be given access to the organizations network to the level required to perform their specific duties. Some users will require access to job specific systems, the authorization of these systems will be granted but the department director or the IT coordinator.
Patient Age Groups Served:
- 12 years old and above
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