What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Routing Technician position at Fairfax County Public Schools?
Lorton-Central Transportation
Summary
Performs a wide variety of moderately specialized, complex operational, technical and administrative, and logistical tasks duties in support of transportation programs routing and planning activities; conducts assigned area-wide transportation technical reporting duties; maintains data in computer assisted routing software.
Qualifications
Required
- Any combination of education and experience equivalent to graduation from high school or possession of a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) certificate.
- Three (3) years of experience in general office administration, scheduling, routing, dispatching, or related field.
- Advanced degree(s) beyond the minimum degree requirement in a relevant field may be considered for some experience.
- Ability to work flexible hours, as required.
- Knowledge of transportation procedures, operations, scheduling, and routing strategies.
- Knowledge of FCPS school locations and street and road systems for the Fairfax County, DC, and Maryland area.
- Familiarity with local, state, and federal laws and regulations related to student transportation.
- Ability to plan and implement efficient routes.
- Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work.
- Ability to read and interpret maps.
- Ability to utilize computer and applicable transportation and office suite software.
- Ability to collect, synthesize and report data using appropriate computer technology.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
Preferred
- Experience as a bus driver or attendant.
- Knowledge of computerized transportation routing systems.
- Knowledge of school transportation.
Major Duties/Essential Functions
- Plans and develops school bus routes, bus stop sequence, and schedules that are safe, dependable, and efficient within the framework of a predetermined routing and scheduling calendar.
- Determines student eligibility for transportation and assigns students to bus routes and stops utilizing computerized transportation routing systems; adjusts boundaries as needed.
- Verifies and maintains data in the computer assisted routing software to include routes, equipment, and student information including changes, transfers, and transportation needs.
- Periodically audits the planned routes to ensure optimization.
- Provides ""what-if"" scenarios, multiple solutions, and recommends best option related to such scenarios as change of a program from one school or center to another, change in bell schedules, emergency routing, and boundary changes.
- Makes route recommendations to provide maximum and efficient utilization of buses, route length, traffic pattern variability, street closures, and ride times.
- Revises bus routes and/or adds buses to routes to accommodate new programs, bell schedules, and/or changes in student addresses, transfers, withdrawals, or new enrollments.
- Plans transportation routing for out-of-boundary students.
- Creates crisis routes to support Fairfax County, as needed.
- Assists with transportation planning for shuttle programs, School-Age Child Care (SACC), RecPac, field trips, and summer school programs.
- Gathers, tabulates, and categorizes data for reports concerning route timing, load counts, late runs.
- Generates statistical information for state-mandated reports, quarterly and annually.
- Attends and participates in various divisionwide transportation-related meetings.
- Delivers informational training to transportation staff in routing and planning processes
- Assists with the review and revision of procedural manuals.
- Performs clerical support and dispatcher duties as backup for office operations, as required by operational necessity.
- Performs related duties as required or assigned.
Work Environment/Physical Requirements
This job operates in a professional office environment and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Salary Range
$64,992 - $112,450
Salary Grade
[Salary Information]
Unified Scale-Schedule A/Grade 014-FEU-OP
Office
Office Of Transportation Services
Contract Length
260-Day Contract
Pay Frequency
Monthly
Percent Full-Time
Full Time
Closing Date
27-Oct-2026
Job Type
Transportation
Open
Until
Filled
No
Re-Adv.
Position
No
Transportation Routing Technician | Fairfax County Public Schools
Benefits:
Health Insurance, Sick Leave, Retirement PlanSalary : $64,992 - $112,450