BUS OPERATOR (NON CDL) G116 SHUTTLE OPERATOR
Columbus, GA, USA
Major Duties and Responsibilities
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This position is responsible for operating a METRA transit golf cart.
- Prepares the golf cart for safe operation: conducts pre-trip inspection and checks off daily safety prevention checklist for both interior and exterior of the golf cart.
- Boards and inspects passengers.
- Drives golf cart and maintains daily knowledge of routes.
- Operates essential equipment, to include a Non-CDL vehicle.
- Assists passengers with disabilities; secures wheelchairs and passengers; assists passengers in distress; notifies dispatcher/supervisor of golf cart location and symptoms of passengers in distress.
- Perform duties required by the Office of Homeland Security, assisting customers in safe evacuation from the golf cart; observing, determining, and reporting activities, packages and substances that are suspicious or out-of-place; ability to use a common sense approach when faced with various emergency situations to ensure public/passenger safety and proper golf cart operation.
- Provides information and directional assistance.
- Issues parking citations: explains violations to citizens as needed; delivers court summons for parking violators to appear in court for resolution; handles contracts for customers leasing parking spaces in the River Center garage.
- Maintains knowledge of all city ordinances pertaining to non-moving vehicle violations.
- Performs daily inspections of parking garages to determine property damage, needed repairs, and vehicle damage; reports needed repairs for city vehicles; monitors surveillance cameras for city owned garages and parking lots.
- Operates a radio; reports accidents and emergency situations when en route; assists 911 by reporting inoperative traffic lights.
- Participates in random and mandatory drug and alcohol testing.
- Attends annual driver refresher training; attends courses in defensive driving as needed.
- Notifies dispatcher/supervisor and obtains necessary repairs and maintenance work at each turn-around point; secures golf cart in case of accident or engine malfunction; directs traffic around golf cart as needed.
- Performs the duties of the supervisor in his or her absence and needed.
- Must have open flexibility with his or her schedule.
- Performs other related job duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
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- Knowledge of the principles and practices involved in operating assigned automotive equipment.
- Knowledge of first aid techniques and procedures.
- Knowledge of city streets.
- Knowledge of traffic rules, regulations, and statutes.
- Knowledge of probem solving and conflict resolution techniques.
- Skill in the operation of computers, handheld devices, and various software programs.
- Skill in the safe operation of assigned automotive and other equipment.
- Skill in the operation of standard office equipment.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
- Ability to assist customers using patience and understanding.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Minimum Educational and Training Requirements
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Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years. Must possess a valid Driver's License. Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid commercial driver's license (CDL) issued by the State of Georgia for the type of vehicle or equipment operated.
Physical Requirements
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The work is typically performed while sitting for prolonged periods of time in a driver's seat and/or at a keyboard. The employee must have the ability to: lift up to twenty-five (25) pounds; push an occupied standard wheelchair with weight capacity per ADA standards (600 pounds); walk around and inspect vehicle. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
- Crawling – moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.
- Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
- Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
- Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
- Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
- Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
- Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
- Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
- Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
- Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
- Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
- Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
- Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
- Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
- Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
- Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
- Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
- Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
- Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
- Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
- Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
- Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
- Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
- Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.