School Bus Transport Manager

School Transport Manager . In this role you’ll play a pivotal role in managing safe and efficient school transport services that affect thousands of students and families across the Midwest Region.

This role holds the responsibility for ensuring daily compliance with service level agreements, managing the training and development of key staff, and optimizing operational processes to provide a seamless transport experience for school communities.

As a key member of the School Transport Management Team, the role reports directly to the Senior Manager - Regional School Transport, and oversees the safe operation and efficient administration of the School Transport Offices in the region.

The ideal candidate will combine strong leadership with strategic planning abilities to maximize resources, utilization and deliver value for money, while fostering effective communication with schools, contractors and stakeholders.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure the delivery of safe, timely services for school transport customers on a daily basis in line with SLAs
• Manage and support the training and development needs of Clerical, Supervisory and School bus Driving staff in local school transport offices
• Manage and support on all aspects of the school supervisor’s role, including work allocation and decision making.
• Provide assistance and administer the procurement of School Transport services in line with procurement policies and procedures, to include negotiation and signing of contracts.
• Provide operational details to ensure responses to reports as required by Schools management/PQ/DOE within defined timelines
• Ensure that all school transport applications are processed in a timely manner and sanction is received for expenditure in relation to additional cost associated with SEN and Mainstream applications
• Independent Vehicle Inspections – Ensure the agreed Logistics UK national target on vehicle inspections is achieved on an annual basis
• Efficient network planning /optimised use of resources.
• Ensure optimum utilisation of resources in designing and reviewing routes to achieve value for money for the DoE
• Respond to queries from all external partners and stakeholders including contractors, the general public, public representatives & schools in a timely manner
• Ensure compliance of contractor vehicle, driver, vetting documentation in line legislative requirements and KPI targets

KEY SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

• Experience of staff management, support and mentoring
• School Transport experience
• Microsoft Packages i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook
• Knowledge of Transport Procurement process and guidelines
• Route/ network planning skills
• Administrative skills
• Understand budgetary requirements