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