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Role overview

Qualifications

  • Experience in transportation operations and onboarding transportation partners
  • Strong customer management and relationship-building skills (onboarding, retention, development)
  • Proven ability to prepare proposals and negotiate with customers
  • Familiarity with vehicle maintenance, regulatory compliance, and safety practices; ability to collaborate on reports and SOPs

Responsibilities

  • Assist in onboarding transportation partners and managing daily trips, addressing parents' and districts' needs
  • Daily customer management including day-to-day operations, new client start-ups, client retention, and development
  • Capture new business opportunities, work with internal staff to complete proposals, and negotiate with customers
  • Oversee vehicle maintenance and manage a large driver and transportation partner pool; ensure compliance with policies and procedures

About the company

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First Student

Ground Passenger Transportation

As the leading pupil transportation solutions provider for school districts in North America, First Student provides the best start and finish to every school day. Our teams complete five and a half million student journeys each day, moving more students than all U.S. airlines combined. We operate more than 44,500 vehicles in 41 U.S. states and 8 Canadian provinces/territories. What makes First Student the right choice for your school district's needs?Our partnerships: We believe great transportation is always the result of close, trusted partnerships with the school districts we serve. Understanding that needs change sometimes throughout the school year, our goal is to remain responsive to your district's needs. We work closely with school districts to ensure the transportation solutions we provide represent a collective, forward-thinking response to the needs of your district and community.Our engagement: We believe education offers a child – and their family – the foundation needed to lead a productive and successful life. We support education by making sure children have a safe and reliable way to get to and from school each day. Students start and end their school days with us, and we recognize the opportunity we have to impact each student’s day in a positive manner.Our people: Our people are our advantage. With a team of highly-trained drivers and the industry’s strongest safety record, we’re able to leverage the best practices, technologies and processes needed to deliver quality, consistent service.Visit http://www.firststudentinc.com for more information about how First Student is Caring for students, today, tomorrow, together.®

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryGround Passenger Transportation
Company size10001

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Job description

Major Responsibilities
  • Assist in working with and onboarding transportation partners, managing the daily trips and assisting parents and districts to take care of their needs ​
  • Daily customer management to include but not limited to day-to-day operations, new client start-ups, client retention, and development​
  • Assist in capturing new business opportunities with current customers and new clients. Work with internal staff on completing proposals and negotiating with customers​
  • Acquire and manage staff equipment and any items required to perform trips (i.e: driver/staff badges, business cards, etc.)​
  • Monitor any new legislations affecting alternative student transportation. Assist team with implementing new legislations.
  • Daily customer management to include but not limited to day-to-day operations, new client start-ups, client retention, and development.​
  • Will be required to assist in finding, onboarding, and developing ongoing relationships with local and national transportation providers. ​
  • During school year startup, it will be required to communicate and negotiate proposed routes with local service providers. ​
  • Assist in capturing new business opportunities with current customers and new clients. Work with internal staff on completing proposals and negotiating with customers. ​
  • Responsible for overseeing and ensuring that accounts are running efficiently, and customer service levels are managed to client expectations. ​
  • Oversee vehicle maintenance and compliance along with managing a large driver and transportation partner pool. ​
  • Work in collaboration with internal departments to execute reports and programs to improve service quality, reduce costs, and increase service productivity.​
  • Maintain a safe and efficient environment for our passengers, contractors, and non-riding public by managing regulatory and client policies and procedures.​
  • Follow all First Student policies and procedures while providing the best customers service to our clients. ​
  • Use effective industry skills and abilities to support and grow daily transportation operations.​
  • Must be able to learn and utilize technical skills to create reports, SOP’s, and assist in formulating standard practices within FirstAlt. ​
  • Duties and responsibilities are not limited to above descriptions and can be modified or changed at the discretion of Management. ​


Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

Salary - $55,000 - $65,000

Disclaimer
Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.


First for a reason:

At First Student, we are a family of 60,000+ employees who take pride in safely transporting more than 5 million students and passengers to and from their destinations each day! Our family of brands include Transco, Total Transportation, Maggies Paratransit, and GVC II. Our employees are at the forefront of safety and innovation; they create and implement the most advanced training and technology the transportation industry has to offer.


In the state of Washington, all technician and driving positions, including but not limited to van drivers and any other position requiring employees to drive a company-owned vehicle, are considered safety-sensitive and are therefore subject to drug and alcohol testing, including cannabis.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. First is also committed to providing a drug-free workplace. First will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, and any other fair chance law. Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Record Screening Standards Ordinance Poster is at this link or upon request https://www.phila.gov/media/20210423160847/Fair-Chance-Hiring-law-poster.pdf.

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