Retirees

• Bring your preschool grandchildren on the bus with you
• Work 4 to 8 hours per day
• Have all summer free
• Full-time benefits for part-time work

Moms, Dads, and Grandparents

• Save on child care costs...bring your preschool children or grandchildren on the bus with you
• Excellent benefits - health insurance, life insurance, paid sick and personal leave, retirement plan, six paid non-work days
• Be off when the kids are off

Already have a job?

• We have substitute positions

Other Pluses

• The current hourly rate for FCPS bus drivers starts at $16.57, plus benefits
• Drivers are eligible for annual step increases plus cost-of-living increases. Top of scale is more than $22.00 an hour, plus benefits
• Consideration can be given for previous school bus driving experience
• Great benefits, including medical and dental insurance, life insurance, social security, and many others
• Paid training program
• Effective NOW - Guaranteed a minimum of 35 hours/week

Do You Like Change?

We pay floater drivers a higher rate of pay for their experience and ability to drive a variety of buses and routes and manage different groups of student passengers. Floaters are drivers with full benefits that fill-in for drivers who are on leave.

Looking for Career Opportunities?

Many of our drivers advance to higher driving positions or become supervisors. Many others move or return to other FCPS positions in administration, instruction, etc. Bus driving can be a good career, a good job for a season in your life, or a doorway to other opportunities with FCPS.

For more information, give the HR Client Service Center a call at 571-423-3000 between 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday or e-mail the coordinator, Phyllis Layne.

Driver Requirements

Each driver must:

• Pass required initial and follow-up physicals, drug screening, driving record standards, and criminal background investigations.
• Obtain a Commercial Driver License and successfully complete FCPS school bus driver certification training program involving more than 140 hours of classroom, behind-the-wheel, and on-the-job training under the close supervision of certified driver trainers.
• Participate in regular in-service training programs to maintain a high level of both skill and knowledge.

Want to apply?

Simply go online to: http://careers.fcps.edu/tg_ela.htm.