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motor coach driver

Coach Canadaabout 1 month ago
Kingston, Ontario
Mid Level
full_time

Top Benefits

Health benefits
Dental plan
Disability benefits

About the role

Overview Languages

English

Education

  • No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience 1 year to less than 2 years

On the road

Work locations may vary. Frequent or constant travel is required from the employee.

Responsibilities Tasks

  • Operate buses, school busses or streetcars to transport passengers
  • Provide passengers with information on fares, schedules and stops
  • Report delays, mechanical problems and accidents
  • Direct passengers during emergency evacuation procedures
  • Deal with public
  • Complete logbooks and reports
  • Deal with difficult passengers and resolve conflicts
  • Ensure children's safety when boarding and leaving buses and crossing street while bus is stopped
  • Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

  • Air Brakes Endorsement
  • Class 4/4F/F/4A-B-C Licence (ambulances, emergency vehicles and buses with fewer than 24 passengers)
  • School Bus Endorsement
  • Air Brake (Z) Endorsement

Experience and specialization

Type of experience

  • Tour and charter bus driver

Transportation/travel experience

  • Local
  • National
  • Provincial/territorial

Additional information

Security and safety

  • Child Abuse Registry check
  • Criminal record check
  • Driving record check (abstract)
  • Drug test
  • Medical exam

Transportation/travel information

  • Driver's abstract
  • Travel expenses paid by employer
  • Valid driver's licence

Weight handling

  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player

Benefits Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement

Employment groups

This employer promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including those self-identifying as a member of these groups:

Support for persons with disabilities

  • Provides physical accessibility accommodations (for example: ramps, elevators, etc.)
  • Provides visual accessibility accommodations (for example: braille, screen readers, etc.)
  • Provides auditory accessibility accommodations (for example: transcription software, teletypewriters, etc.)
  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports persons with disabilities
  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for persons with disabilities
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
  • Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities

Support for youths

  • Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

Support for Veterans

  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Veterans
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans
  • Recruits Veterans and other candidates with military experience through targeted hiring initiatives (for example: job fairs, outreach programs etc.)
  • Assists with immediate transition needs of Veterans (for example: relocation, housing, etc.)
  • Offers workshops, counselling services or other resources to help Veterans navigate their transition into the civilian workforce (for example: adapting to different organizational structures)
  • Supports Veterans in translating their military skills and experience into the language of the civilian job market
  • Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.)

Support for Indigenous people

  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
  • Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations
  • Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
  • Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers

About Coach Canada

Truck Transportation
5001-10,000

Specializing in quality passenger transportation since 1956, Coach Canada operates one of the largest, most modern fleet of highway coaches in Ontario. Coach Canada's fleet is diverse, offering 56 passenger coaches as well as 33-passenger mini-coaches. Also available are coaches that are wheelchair accessible. Vehicles are available with air-conditioning, washrooms, video systems, CD players, DVD players and available Wi-Fi. All of our coaches are equipped with state of the art satellite-based management systems, ensuring on-time performance and efficient routing. Our drivers are highly skilled, trained professionals and are fully uniformed.

To serve you better, we have multiple divisional offices: Peterborough, Kingston, Montreal, Toronto and Niagara Falls.

Offering Charter Services, Airport Shuttles as well as Inter-City Routes with our sister company, Megabus. Our Megabus brand operates daily service between Niagara Falls, Toronto, Kingston and Montreal, with connections throughout the United States via Megabus USA. We also offer Sightseeing tours through our Gray Line Montreal Sightseeing division. For Charter Services, visit http://www.coachcanada.com; for Individual Travel, visit http://ca.megabus.com; for Montreal Sightseeing, visit http://www.graylinemontreal.com.

Coach Canada together with Coach USA, Inc. represents the North American operations of Stagecoach Group plc. This is a public company listed on the London stock market. More information is available online at www.stagecoachplc.com. The North American Group employs 4,600 people and operates 2,800 busses. Stagecoach, founded in Perth, Scotland in 1980 by the Company’s founder, Brian Souter and his sister, is a leading international transport specialist with bus and rail operations in the UK, New Zealand and North America.

For more information, visit our website at www.coachcanada.com, or call us at 1-800-461-7661.