Taxi Driver jobs in Staten Island, NY

We’re Big Bus Tours, the world’s largest operator of open-top sightseeing tours.

We inspire the spirit of adventure across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific with a vision to be the number one thing to do in every world-famous city. Our hop-on, hop-off sightseeing tours offer a flexible way to city discovery with a first-class customer experience. A Big Bus Tour turns tourists into explorers and leaves every passenger with a story to tell.

Having started our journey in 1991 with only three buses, today we have a global fleet of over 400, carrying more than 5 million passengers every year. And we’re not slowing down, we continue to grow within our existing cities and through expansion into new locations across the world.

Opened in 2014, Big Bus New York quickly became a frontrunner in the local tourism and transportation industry. With key acquisitions and partnerships with renowned brands across the city, today Big Bus New York is the largest of our US operations. The local team are ready to expand further, explore the exciting opportunity detailed below.

Job Description:

• Ensure that all staff within the garage fully understand and comply with Company and statutory regulations, with regards to hours of work, health & safety and working practices.
• To manage, support and motivate supervisory staff and allocate them accordingly to ensure vehicle quality and service coverage is maintained.
• To ensure vehicles and their records are maintained in accordance with all Company and DOT statutory requirements.
• Monitor material, utilization, holding and requirements of the department stores/materials stock.
• Plan and oversee the maintenance of all workshop and site plant, equipment and premises ensuring all OSHA legislation is adhered to.
• To act as the competent person in all Health and Safety matters within the engineering sites and to produce risk assessments, safe working practices, toolbox talks, PPE provisions along with any other Health and Safety related procedures.
• Manage engineering staff in the performance of their duties providing advice, guidance motivation, high performance levels, leadership and effective management as necessary.
• The ability and preparedness to actively work on vehicles with the staff or alone if required.
• To provide a high level of technical expertise and support to engineering staff, to ensure their skills and competence levels continually improve, and to identify training needs.
• Ensure that no malpractice occurs in the established procedures, by monitoring and auditing systems and practices.
• To fully understand and comply with all Company and statutory regulations relating to hours of work; staff rules, regulations and working practices.
• To attend manager meetings reporting to the General Manager and produce monthly reports on health and safety, fleet maintenance and safety schedules, vehicle allocation performance, bi-annual fleet test presentation to DOT, staffing levels and key projects.

Experience and qualifications:

• At least 3 years in a management role
• Computer literacy
• Experience in the management of cost budgets
• Experience as a heavy diesel mechanic
• Knowledge of OSHA and DOT requirements
• CDL class B
• Must have own tools
• High School diploma or equivalent
• Excellent communication skills
• Spanish fluency is a plus

Benefits:

• Full health insurance coverage
  • Dental
  • Health
  • Vision
• Paid Time off
• 401K
• Aflac
• Life Insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends

Work Location:

• 37-88 Review Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101