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TRANSPORTATION SERVICES (027) Manager, Transportation Operations
PURPOSE
Develops, organizes, implements, manages, and monitors overall performance of associated transportation services assuring exceptional customer service. Provides leadership and supervision to staff ensuring timely and current performance feedback and evaluations. Builds and maintains the necessary skill sets through focused professional development in order to deliver exceptional services internally and externally to schools, districts, and other governmental entities in the support of student achievement.
Ensuring that 16,000 students make it to school each day is no small task. It takes coordination between various teams to have 300 highly qualified drivers assigned 250 routes each day, and for those drivers to perform flawlessly delivering each student to their school or home without accident or incident.
We need someone to help orchestrate this perfection, could it be you?
Our Transportation Operations Manager:

• Coordinates activities with our various teams to train, route, and dispatch drivers and their school buses
• Participates in long-term planning for the department
• Synchronizes day-to-day operations
• Develops transportation leadership
• Promotes safe and efficient transportation
• Assists in budget development and fiscal responsibility
• Provides an opportunity for all students to graduate and prepare for a successful life

About Salem-Keizer Public Schools:

• 2nd largest school district in Oregon
• 65 Schools (42 Elementary, 11 Middle, 8 High, 4 Charter)
• 40,155 students served in Pre-K through 12 grade, 40% receiving transportation services
• 17% receive special education services
• 96 different languages spoken in our schools, 18% of total students are English Language Learners
• 80.91% graduation rate
• Community investment in transportation, including the new facility, the remodeled facility and 200 new buses
• Excellent healthcare benefits
• Public Employee Retirement System

Please note, this position requires that you possess, or have the ability to obtain, a commercial driver license. As such, this is a safety sensitive job requiring participation in a federally mandated drug and alcohol testing program.

We will be conducting a first review of applications received by June 30, 2022. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their application materials by that date, as we may close the position at any time.
Start date: August 15, 2022
Type: Administrative – Non-Licensed
FTE: 1.0
Status: Permanent
Salary Range: $84,100 - $106,413 (Salary range is based on the 2021-22 range and may be subject to change)
Application Procedure: Apply online
We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may be one who comes from a less traditional background. We would encourage you to apply, even if you don't believe you meet every one of our qualifications described. If you are unsure whether you meet the qualifications of this position, or how this would be determined, please feel free to contact Human Resources to discuss your application. Preference will be given to those applicants with work or lived experience with culturally, linguistically and racially diverse communities.
Salem-Keizer School District is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer