When applying, please include competition number 2024-137-PPR-04 in the email subject line.
Duties and responsibilities:
The Transit Driver transports passengers in a wheelchair-lift equipped bus or a 15-passenger van in a safe and efficient manner.
Duties include:
- Inspecting the vehicle each morning to ensure safety and mechanical soundness and reporting irregularities to the proper supervisor and the follow-up driver
- Works with the dispatcher throughout the day regarding cancellations and new trip bookings which result in reorganizing the daily schedule for transporting passengers
- Collecting fares or tickets from each passenger and selling books of tickets as required
- Loading and unloading passengers in wheelchairs using electric or hydraulic lift
- Escorting and securing passengers in the bus by attaching seat belts or Q-straint system
- Preparing daily trip sheet report and reconciling cash, tickets, and ticket books sold
- Preparing bus for the next day by refueling, maintaining and cleaning as per pandemic protocols, parking bus in secured area, and locking gates daily
- Work as part of a team
Qualifications:
- Minimum Class IV Driver’s Licence with clear Driver’s Abstract for the past five years
- Familiarity with transporting passengers and with Yorkton streets
- Ability to physically maneuver passengers in wheelchairs up and down ramps and stairs
- Excellent customer service, time management, and documentation skills
- General mechanical aptitude/knowledge
- Able to communicate effectively
- Basic computer/email skills
Final Candidates are required to provide satisfactory criminal record checks including a vulnerable sector search.
Submit resume, cover letter and references to:
Mail: Mary Baron, Executive Assistant
SaskAbilities, Yorkton Branch
PO Box 5011 YORKTON, SK S3N 3Z4
Phone: 1-833-444-4126 toll free Fax: 306-782-7844
Email
careers@saskabilities.ca
Please include the position you are applying for and the competition number in the email subject line.
