SIGN ON BONUS $2,500 CDL Operators

Job Description

Job Description

JAUNT is hiring for fulltime CDL Bus Operators. CDL w/ P endorsement required.

Jaunt's operators are responsible for operating transit service vehicles to include transit vans, up to 28 passenger buses used in public transportation in Charlottesville City and Albermarle County including Nelson Co., Greene Co., Fluvanna Co., Buckingham Co., and Louisa Co. Jaunt's operators assume responsibility for the safety of our customers and equipment and performs routine vehicle inspections to ensure proper operations. Communicate appropriate information to customers, supervisors, and peers. Jaunt's operators are responsible for overseeing the safety of passengers, resolving problems, providing outstanding customer service. Arrives on time and works independently with minimal supervision. This position requires a CDL with a P endorsement.

Responsibilities

• Operates a transit vehicle to pick up, transport, and discharge passengers while adhering to route schedule.
• Maintains a pleasant and courteous demeanor.
• Performs a pre-trip inspection and post-trip on transit vehicles for mechanical problems.
• Maintains radio contact with dispatchers to report vehicles breakdowns, accidents, interruption in service.
• Adhere to all safety rules, and regulations.
• Maintains a professional appearance/observe operator dress code (safety vest, Jaunt shirt)
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• High School Diploma or GED
• A valid Virginia CDL with P endorsement and positive point balance.
• Ability to operate vehicle under safest possible conditions.
• Ability to successfully complete operator 4-week training course.
• Ability to use good judgement and common sense in making quick, safe decision with minimal supervision and adapt to constantly changing operating conditions.
• Ability to listen, understand, and carry out the information, ideas, and direction presented verbally or electronically by dispatcher or Road Supervisors.

SIGN ON BONUS pay out schedule

• $500.000 once training is completed

• 500.00 6 months after hire.

• $1,500 after 1 year of successful employment

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Employment is contingent upon successfully completing and passing a pre-employment drug screen. Employment is contingent on a clean driving record that allows employee to be covered by Jaunt's insurance. Continued employment is contingent upon adherence to Jaunt's Substance Abuse Policy, as well as on maintaining a clean driving record.

Jaunt employees regularly interact with passengers with disabilities. To ensure it effectively adheres to the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, all employees will be regularly trained on service delivery expectations to ensure the safe and timely transportation services for passengers with disabilities.

Further, Jaunt shall adhere with the American with Disabilities Act. The successful candidate must be able to perform the position's essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. The physical demands given in this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made that allow individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. To be considered eligible for consideration of accommodation, employees must request accommodation and present a doctor's statement to management stating their physical limitations.

Jaunt is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. In addition to the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Federal Transit Laws, 49 U.S.C. 5332(b), states "no person in the United States shall on the grounds of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or age be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any project, program or activity funded in whole or in part through financial assistance under this Act