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The Data Protection & Security Engineer will serve as the primary owner of First Student\'s data protection capability while also providing hands-on security engineering support across cloud, infrastructure, and application security domains. This is a practitioner role. The position partners with IT, I&O, and Legal teams to design and operate security controls that protect student, employee, and operational data across cloud and on-premises environments. The role defines what must be protected and how, coordinates with I&O and Data teams to ensure controls are implemented correctly, and builds validation and reporting of outcomes.

This role is a direct replacement for a departing senior team member who owned both data protection and security engineering. Candidates must be comfortable holding both domains simultaneously and ramping quickly into an active program.

Responsibilities:
Identify and assess:
Own enterprise data protection risk assessments, classification standards, and control effectiveness evaluations. Identify data exposure risk across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. Contribute to vulnerability assessments and architecture reviews within the Cybersecurity function.

Securely build & protect:
Design and define data protection control requirements and standards for DLP, encryption, key management, and data governance across cloud and on-premises environments. Work with I&O and Data teams to ensure controls are implemented to Cybersecurity specifications; validate implementation outcomes. Provide security engineering expertise across cloud infrastructure and endpoint security domains.

Monitor, hunt, detect:
Monitor for data misuse, exfiltration, and policy violations. Integrate DLP detection capabilities with SOC workflows. Support SIEM log source expansion and alert quality improvements in coordination with the Security Operations function.

Respond, recover, sustain:
Lead Cybersecurity response activities for data exposure incidents, including investigation direction, containment guidance to I&O, remediation oversight, and lessons learned.

Govern, manage, comply, & manage risk:
Develop and maintain data protection policies aligned with FERPA, CCPA, Canadian provincial privacy laws, and enterprise risk objectives. Own the data classification framework and drive operationalization across key data stores and workflows. Contribute to management reporting, risk acceptance documentation, and work tracking.

Lead and coordinate:

Provide technical oversight of cybersecurity analysts. Review work product and deliverables for quality, accuracy, and alignment with standards. Serve as a technical escalation point within the team for data protection and cybersecurity questions.

Desired qualifications:
Education and certifications:
Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
7+ years of cybersecurity experience with at least 4 years in data protection, cloud security, or cybersecurity engineering.
Industry certifications such as SANS/GIAC (for example, GDSA, GDAT, or equivalent), CISSP, CISM preferred.

Knowledge & experience:
Hands-on experience configuring and operating DLP platforms (M365 Purview strongly preferred; CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection preferred; equivalent experience acceptable).
Experience implementing data classification frameworks in enterprise environments with regulated data (FERPA, COPPA, CCPA, or Canadian privacy law familiarity preferred).
Strong understanding of AWS security services and cloud-native data protection controls (S3 bucket policies, KMS, Macie, CloudTrail).
Security engineering experience: familiarity with SIEM log sources, endpoint security platforms (CrowdStrike Falcon preferred), and vulnerability management tooling (Rapid7 preferred).
Proficiency with Python or PowerShell for automation, reporting, and control validation.
Familiarity with NIST CSF, CIS Controls, and how to translate regulatory requirements into technical controls.
Experience working across organizational boundaries, such as defining requirements for teams that own implementation and validating outcomes without direct execution authority.
Prior experience providing technical oversight or mentorship to others.

Personal attributes:
Operates independently and takes clear ownership of outcomes. Comfortable defining requirements and holding other teams accountable for implementation without direct control over execution.

Comfortable holding multiple technical domains simultaneously (data protection and security engineering) and prioritizing across them without daily direction.

Effective at working across organizational boundaries by communicating requirements clearly, escalating when standards are not met, and building productive working relationships.

Strong communication skills; able to translate technical data risk into terms meaningful to Legal, and management and executive stakeholders.

High integrity and ownership mindset. Proactive approach to risk reduction.

Additional Information

Occasional off-hour or weekend work may be required, including participation in on-call rotation for cybersecurity incidents.

Minimal business travel expected.

Remote or Hybrid (Cincinnati, OH HQ) opportunities available.

Compensation ranges from $130,000 - $155,000 depending on experience.

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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Lead and coordinate:

Additional Information

Occasional off-hour or weekend work may be required, including participation in on-call rotation for cybersecurity incidents.

Minimal business travel expected.

Remote or Hybrid (Cincinnati, OH HQ) opportunities available.

Compensation ranges from $130,000 - $155,000 depending on experience.

First for a reason:

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First Student is North America\'s leading provider of student transportation, helping millions of students get to and from school safely each day. Our technology teams build and support the operational, safety, customer, and employee-facing systems behind that work, including our HALO platform.

AI is an area of active investment, and this role is part of how we are building practical, reliable, and governed AI-enabled capabilities for the business.

About the Role

This is not a traditional software engineering role, and "Lead" does not mean managing people. You will lead agent-driven software delivery: deciding what to build, decomposing work for AI coding agents, supervising their output, validating quality, and owning what ships.

You will not primarily be measured by writing code line-by-line. You will be measured by your ability to direct AI coding agents effectively, create the scaffolding that keeps their work aligned, review their output with senior-level judgment, and ensure the resulting software is reliable, maintainable, and production-ready.

When the solution itself is an AI agent - such as a routing assistant, dispatcher copilot, or parent communications agent - you will help design, build, evaluate, and operate it in production.

You will work primarily on net-new tools and agents, with some work in existing systems. You will build in our standard stack: React, React Native, and AWS. Many tools may touch student data, so FERPA and enterprise governance are part of the work. You will be a peer in a small AI pod and will help shape the AI governance and delivery practices we are building now.

How You\'ll Work

You will operate AI coding agents - such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and successor tools - as a primary means of software production. Your value is not typing speed. It is the judgment to know what to build, how to constrain the agent\'s work, when the output is wrong, and how to prove the result is right.

A key part of the role is building the scaffolding around agent-driven development: project context, tests, architectural rules, file conventions, allowed dependencies, review checkpoints, and patterns that reduce drift over time.

A typical week may include:

Translating business problems into specifications, constraints, and implementation plans AI coding agents can execute.

Running agents in parallel, reviewing output, and integrating work into maintainable systems.

Designing tests, project context, architectural rules, and review checkpoints to keep agent output aligned.

Building evals, guardrails, and monitoring for AI-built and AI-embedded systems. Working with stakeholders, architecture, security, and AI governance to clarify requirements and manage risk.

Key Responsibilities

Lead agent-driven software delivery

Translate business problems into clear specifications, constraints, and implementation plans for AI coding agents.

Direct AI coding agents to design, build, test, and ship applications, workflows, and AI-enabled tools.

Decompose ambiguous requests into agent-executable work and validate that outputs meet business and technical requirements.

Run agents in parallel where useful; review, reconcile, and integrate their output.

Prototype rapidly to gather feedback and inform product direction.

Maintain quality, reliability, and architectural discipline

Design and maintain agent harnesses, including project context, architectural rules, file conventions, allowed dependencies, and review checkpoints.

Use test-driven practices to constrain agent output and catch drift early.

Ensure appropriate automated test coverage across unit, integration, end-to-end, and contract tests based on risk.

Review agent-produced code for correctness, security, maintainability, and architectural fit.

Enforce patterns that keep codebases maintainable as AI agents contribute to development.

Build and operate AI-enabled systems

Build solutions using design systems, tool use, APIs, function calling, RAG, DAG, MCP, context engineering, harness engineering and multi-agent workflows where appropriate.

Evaluate models and AI tools across providers based on cost, quality, latency, reliability, security, and fit for purpose.

Implement evals, monitoring, logging, and guardrails so AI systems are measurable and supportable.

Design for reliable and repeatable outputs where the business requires consistency.

Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Partner with architecture, security, and AI governance to align solutions with enterprise standards.

Required Qualifications

Strong understanding of Product Management, UI/UX concepts, Business Analysis, Analytics and SDLCs

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including senior-level code review and architectural judgment.

Demonstrated experience using AI coding agents or AI-assisted development tools to ship production software beyond basic autocomplete or experimentation.

Ability to decompose business problems into clear technical specifications, implementation plans, tests, and review checkpoints.

Strong test-driven development and automated testing practices, including using tests to validate AI-generated or agent-produced code.

Practical experience building or operating LLM-based systems in production, including evaluation, monitoring, and handling non-deterministic behavior.

Experience working in enterprise environments with security, governance, data-handling, and production support constraints.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Direct experience building in React, React Native, and AWS.

Experience with Product Management, UI/UX, Business Analysis, Analytics and SDLCs

Experience with AWS services relevant to AI workloads, such as Bedrock, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, or Step Functions.

Experience with agent frameworks, RAG, vector databases, embeddings, context engineering, tool use, or function-calling patterns.

Experience with LLM observability, evaluation, structured outputs, prompt optimization, guardrails, or deterministic-output patterns.

Experience with advanced testing practices such as contract testing, property-based testing, or mutation testing.

Experience with Snowflake, Power BI, geospatial, routing, logistics, transportation, or operations-focused software.

Experience applying AI within governed enterprise environments, including FERPA-relevant or similarly regulated data.

Relevant AWS, AI, cloud, or data certifications.

What Success Looks Like

At 6 months: You have shipped 2-3 production tools or agents through agent-driven development. You have established agent harness patterns, test-first practices, and review standards that the AI pod can reuse. Stakeholders trust your judgment on where AI can help, where it cannot, and what is required to use it responsibly.

At 12 months: You have a portfolio of AI-built and AI-embedded systems running reliably in production. The practices you helped shape are improving delivery speed, quality, and consistency across the team and are beginning to influence broader AI delivery practices across IT.

Working Style

This role requires initiative, judgment, and clear communication. You should be comfortable clarifying ambiguous objectives, making progress with limited direction, escalating risks early, building trust with stakeholders, and documenting the decisions behind your work.

Strong agent-driven engineering requires more discipline, not less. You will be expected to set clear constraints, verify output rigorously, and maintain ownership of the quality of what ships.

First for a reason:

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AI is an area of active investment, and this role is part of how we are building practical, reliable, and governed AI-enabled capabilities for the business.

About the Role

When the solution itself is an AI agent - such as a routing assistant, dispatcher copilot, or parent communications agent - you will help design, build, evaluate, and operate it in production.

How You\'ll Work

A typical week may include:

Translating business problems into specifications, constraints, and implementation plans AI coding agents can execute.

Running agents in parallel, reviewing output, and integrating work into maintainable systems.

Designing tests, project context, architectural rules, and review checkpoints to keep agent output aligned.

Building evals, guardrails, and monitoring for AI-built and AI-embedded systems. Working with stakeholders, architecture, security, and AI governance to clarify requirements and manage risk.

Key Responsibilities

Lead agent-driven software delivery

Translate business problems into clear specifications, constraints, and implementation plans for AI coding agents.

Direct AI coding agents to design, build, test, and ship applications, workflows, and AI-enabled tools.

Decompose ambiguous requests into agent-executable work and validate that outputs meet business and technical requirements.

Run agents in parallel where useful; review, reconcile, and integrate their output.

Prototype rapidly to gather feedback and inform product direction.

Maintain quality, reliability, and architectural discipline

Design and maintain agent harnesses, including project context, architectural rules, file conventions, allowed dependencies, and review checkpoints.

Use test-driven practices to constrain agent output and catch drift early.

Ensure appropriate automated test coverage across unit, integration, end-to-end, and contract tests based on risk.

Review agent-produced code for correctness, security, maintainability, and architectural fit.

Enforce patterns that keep codebases maintainable as AI agents contribute to development.

Build and operate AI-enabled systems

Build solutions using design systems, tool use, APIs, function calling, RAG, DAG, MCP, context engineering, harness engineering and multi-agent workflows where appropriate.

Evaluate models and AI tools across providers based on cost, quality, latency, reliability, security, and fit for purpose.

Implement evals, monitoring, logging, and guardrails so AI systems are measurable and supportable.

Design for reliable and repeatable outputs where the business requires consistency.

Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Partner with architecture, security, and AI governance to align solutions with enterprise standards.

Required Qualifications

Strong understanding of Product Management, UI/UX concepts, Business Analysis, Analytics and SDLCs

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including senior-level code review and architectural judgment.

Demonstrated experience using AI coding agents or AI-assisted development tools to ship production software beyond basic autocomplete or experimentation.

Ability to decompose business problems into clear technical specifications, implementation plans, tests, and review checkpoints.

Strong test-driven development and automated testing practices, including using tests to validate AI-generated or agent-produced code.

Practical experience building or operating LLM-based systems in production, including evaluation, monitoring, and handling non-deterministic behavior.

Experience working in enterprise environments with security, governance, data-handling, and production support constraints.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Direct experience building in React, React Native, and AWS.

Experience with Product Management, UI/UX, Business Analysis, Analytics and SDLCs

Experience with AWS services relevant to AI workloads, such as Bedrock, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, or Step Functions.

Experience with agent frameworks, RAG, vector databases, embeddings, context engineering, tool use, or function-calling patterns.

Experience with LLM observability, evaluation, structured outputs, prompt optimization, guardrails, or deterministic-output patterns.

Experience with advanced testing practices such as contract testing, property-based testing, or mutation testing.

Experience with Snowflake, Power BI, geospatial, routing, logistics, transportation, or operations-focused software.

Experience applying AI within governed enterprise environments, including FERPA-relevant or similarly regulated data.

Relevant AWS, AI, cloud, or data certifications.

What Success Looks Like

Working Style

Strong agent-driven engineering requires more discipline, not less. You will be expected to set clear constraints, verify output rigorously, and maintain ownership of the quality of what ships.

First for a reason:

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First Student is a leading provider of student transportation solutions, dedicated to ensuring safe and efficient transportation for students. Our commitment to innovation has led us to pioneer electric school buses and to build and continuously refine a substantial portfolio of custom digital products on AWS - spanning the customer-facing experiences families and school districts rely on and the internal platforms that run our operations. As we modernize the industry - increasingly through cloud-native architecture and the responsible adoption of autonomous, agent-based systems - we are seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to build and keep coherent the technical foundation of that transformation.

Job Summary

The Principal Enterprise Architect is the senior individual-contributor authority on enterprise architecture at First Student. This is a hands-on, building role rather than a people-leadership or review role: influence is earned through technical depth, working artifacts, and the ability to turn complex, cross-functional designs into coherent architecture teams can actually build on. The role carries an enterprise-wide remit and concentrates on the problems of greatest consequence to the business.

At the center of that remit is First Student\'s portfolio of custom digital products - purpose-built software serving both customers and internal operations, built and continuously refined on AWS. Two emerging areas receive particular emphasis: cloud architecture on AWS, and the architecture enabling First Student\'s move toward agent-based, autonomous software development. These are one connected strategy, and this role is central to building and keeping it coherent.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Authority: Serve as the enterprise-wide architectural authority across the First Student technology estate. Operate as a contributor within a collaborative design process involving senior leaders, engineering managers, and the cloud architect, and act as the individual who synthesizes competing inputs into a coherent target architecture and builds the connective scaffolding that makes it real. Concentrate effort on the problems of greatest enterprise consequence.

Custom Digital Product Architecture: Own the architecture for First Student\'s portfolio of custom-built digital products - the parent app, school-district and customer-facing applications, and the platforms behind payroll, driver, operations, routing, and scheduling. Lead the biggest architectural problems, design challenges, and integrations across these products, and build the shared scaffolds and reference implementations that let product teams ship against a coherent whole rather than reinvent it.

Shared Digital Services & Integration Architecture: Design and stand up First Student\'s "Shared Digital Services" and enterprise integration layer - delivering the connective fabric as reusable, self-service capabilities teams adopt rather than request, so that custom products share data and backend functions cleanly and consistently across the landscape.

Cloud Architecture (AWS): Own and build the cloud paved road on AWS - reference implementations, landing zones, and golden paths teams ship on, not standards documents they are audited against. Build a dynamic cloud environment defined by automated, rule-based, and progressively-provisioned access, designed so that autonomous agents operate independently and safely within it. Product implementation and cloud spend are owned by delivery teams; the paved road they build on is owned and built here.

Agentic & Autonomous Software Development: Design, prototype, and harden the guardrail layer for First Student\'s emerging agent-based software development lifecycle - agent runtime patterns, control-plane scaffolds, and the eval, supervision, and observability substrate that keeps autonomous systems in bounds. Make the safe path the fast path, so teams have no incentive to route around it. Do this as a key contributor inside the group design process, not as a downstream approver.

Security & Compliance by Design: Partner closely with the Senior Director of Cybersecurity and their team - who own risk assessment - to encode security, privacy, and regulatory requirements into the paved road as policy-as-code and safe defaults, so obligations attached to student and driver data, including FERPA and applicable privacy laws, are inherited by construction rather than enforced by review - particularly as autonomous agents and dynamic access provisioning expand the surface that must remain compliant.

Architecture Governance & Standards: Encode architecture principles and patterns into reusable scaffolds, golden paths, and automated checks that make the right way the easy way. Reserve formal review and sign-off for genuinely irreversible (Type 1) decisions; let reversible work run on guardrails, not gates. Drive adoption by making the standard path the lowest-friction path.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with senior leadership, VPs, engineering managers, and the cloud architect to translate business goals into architecture, surface dependencies early, and flag where team and system boundaries need to move together. Communicate the architectural direction clearly to both technical and executive audiences.

Emerging Technology Assessment: Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and trends relevant to student transportation and to First Student\'s cloud and agentic direction - including EV technology, IoT, cloud-native patterns, and frontier AI. Pilot, prototype, and recommend where and how new capabilities should be adopted, while remaining deliberately agile as the underlying tooling evolves.

Operating-Model & Team-Topology Architecture: Design team boundaries and interaction modes so the organization\'s structure produces the loosely-coupled, fast-iterating architecture the strategy requires (inverse Conway). Treat team design as an architecture surface, not an afterthought.

Qualifications

Bachelor\'s degree.

8+ years of enterprise architecture experience, with demonstrated depth and breadth across multiple IT domains.

Proven experience architecting and integrating significant, large-scale custom software products - both customer-facing and internal - including the challenge of making a portfolio of distinct products operate as a coherent whole.

Demonstrable, hands-on experience designing or architecting with AI and agent-based systems. Because the field is new, this is not measured in years - but it must be real, current, and applied. This role is for someone already doing the work, not for a strong generalist who has yet to touch AI.

Deep AWS cloud architecture experience, including reference architectures, landing zones, well-architected design, and automated or dynamic provisioning.

A proven ability to turn complex, multi-stakeholder designs into coherent architecture, and to build the scaffolding that makes it adoptable.

Learning agility - a clear track record of rapidly mastering, and re-architecting around, fast-moving technologies and tooling.

Strong business acumen, with the ability to translate architecture into business terms and to focus effort where it matters most.

Excellent communication and influence skills, with the ability to lead through expertise rather than positional authority.

Familiarity with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF) as practical tools, and modern delivery and quality practices (Agile/Scrum, ITIL). TOGAF certification a plus.

AWS certification (e.g., Solutions Architect - Professional) a plus.

Experience with EV technology, IoT, digital platforms, and on-bus technology solutions is highly desirable.

Compensation ranges from $130,000 - $180,000 depending on experience.

First for a reason:

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Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

Qualifications

Bachelor\'s degree.

8+ years of enterprise architecture experience, with demonstrated depth and breadth across multiple IT domains.

Proven experience architecting and integrating significant, large-scale custom software products - both customer-facing and internal - including the challenge of making a portfolio of distinct products operate as a coherent whole.

Demonstrable, hands-on experience designing or architecting with AI and agent-based systems. Because the field is new, this is not measured in years - but it must be real, current, and applied. This role is for someone already doing the work, not for a strong generalist who has yet to touch AI.

Deep AWS cloud architecture experience, including reference architectures, landing zones, well-architected design, and automated or dynamic provisioning.

A proven ability to turn complex, multi-stakeholder designs into coherent architecture, and to build the scaffolding that makes it adoptable.

Learning agility - a clear track record of rapidly mastering, and re-architecting around, fast-moving technologies and tooling.

Strong business acumen, with the ability to translate architecture into business terms and to focus effort where it matters most.

Excellent communication and influence skills, with the ability to lead through expertise rather than positional authority.

Familiarity with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF) as practical tools, and modern delivery and quality practices (Agile/Scrum, ITIL). TOGAF certification a plus.

AWS certification (e.g., Solutions Architect - Professional) a plus.

Experience with EV technology, IoT, digital platforms, and on-bus technology solutions is highly desirable.

Compensation ranges from $130,000 - $180,000 depending on experience.

First for a reason:

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First Student is now hiring a Diesel Technician for our shop serving Cincinnati Public Schools!

Hours/Schedule: Monday-Friday, Full-time day shift 5:00am-1:30pm OR 9:30am-6:00pm

If you take pride in keeping your community moving, this is your opportunity to make a real difference. Our team keeps students safe and on time every day-because behind every bus is a skilled mechanic who ensures reliability, safety, and peace of mind for families across our community.

While First Student is North America\'s leading school transportation provider-serving more than 1,250 districts and 5.4 million student journeys daily-our focus here in Cincinnati is local. You\'ll join a close-knit team that values collaboration, safety, and community connection.

Why Join First as a Diesel Mechanic?

Pay Details: Dependent on experience and qualifications.
Hourly Rate: $33.00 - $35.00 per hour (NOT flat rate).
Bonus rate increase available for each ASE School Bus Series test passed and maintained (up to $2/hour more).
Monday-Friday day shift schedule with consistent, year-round work.
Company-paid ASE testing and training materials.
Company-paid CDL Class B training and licensing.
Excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with company match.
Career Advancement Opportunities: Advance into operational, maintenance, management, and leadership roles in over 540 locations across the U.S. & Canada!
Paid holidays and vacation time.
Annual allowances for boots and prescription safety glasses.
Discounts on cell phone plans, vehicles, and more through the PerkSpot program.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Counseling and support services for personal and work-related issues.

About the Diesel Technician Position

As a Diesel Technician with First Student, you will help maintain and repair school buses to ensure safety and reliability.

Diesel Technician key responsibilities include:

Ensure vehicles are maintained and safe for our passengers.
Diagnose and perform all phases of vehicle maintenance including the repair of brakes and brake inspections, engine tune-ups, suspensions, drive trains, transmission clutches and other repairs.
Perform preventive maintenance (PMs), safety inspections, and annual maintenance inspections.
Complete work orders accurately.
Assist with mobile emergency repair services when needed.

Diesel Technician Qualifications

At least 5+ years of diesel or automotive maintenance and repair experience, or equivalent technical school education and experience.
Vehicle diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
Valid driver\'s license required.
CDL Class B or ability to obtain within 60 days of employment - Company paid training provided.
Possession of a mechanic\'s tool set to complete all assigned duties.
Willingness to participate in the ASE certification program (training, testing, and bonuses provided).
Strong computer skills.
Note: This position is subject to DOT drug testing as a safety-sensitive employee. DOT Regulation 49 CFR Part 40 does not authorize the use of Schedule I drugs, including marijuana, for any reason.

Take the wheel and drive your career forward with First Student! Make an impact in your community while enjoying day shift schedules, great pay, and unmatched support.

First for a reason:

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First Student is now hiring a Diesel Technician for our shop serving Cincinnati Public Schools!

Hours/Schedule: Monday-Friday, Full-time day shift 5:00am-1:30pm OR 9:30am-6:00pm

Why Join First as a Diesel Mechanic?

Pay Details: Dependent on experience and qualifications.
Hourly Rate: $33.00 - $35.00 per hour (NOT flat rate).
Bonus rate increase available for each ASE School Bus Series test passed and maintained (up to $2/hour more).
Monday-Friday day shift schedule with consistent, year-round work.
Company-paid ASE testing and training materials.
Company-paid CDL Class B training and licensing.
Excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with company match.
Career Advancement Opportunities: Advance into operational, maintenance, management, and leadership roles in over 540 locations across the U.S. & Canada!
Paid holidays and vacation time.
Annual allowances for boots and prescription safety glasses.
Discounts on cell phone plans, vehicles, and more through the PerkSpot program.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Counseling and support services for personal and work-related issues.

About the Diesel Technician Position

As a Diesel Technician with First Student, you will help maintain and repair school buses to ensure safety and reliability.

Diesel Technician key responsibilities include:

Ensure vehicles are maintained and safe for our passengers.
Diagnose and perform all phases of vehicle maintenance including the repair of brakes and brake inspections, engine tune-ups, suspensions, drive trains, transmission clutches and other repairs.
Perform preventive maintenance (PMs), safety inspections, and annual maintenance inspections.
Complete work orders accurately.
Assist with mobile emergency repair services when needed.

Diesel Technician Qualifications

At least 5+ years of diesel or automotive maintenance and repair experience, or equivalent technical school education and experience.
Vehicle diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
Valid driver\'s license required.
CDL Class B or ability to obtain within 60 days of employment - Company paid training provided.
Possession of a mechanic\'s tool set to complete all assigned duties.
Willingness to participate in the ASE certification program (training, testing, and bonuses provided).
Strong computer skills.
Note: This position is subject to DOT drug testing as a safety-sensitive employee. DOT Regulation 49 CFR Part 40 does not authorize the use of Schedule I drugs, including marijuana, for any reason.

Take the wheel and drive your career forward with First Student! Make an impact in your community while enjoying day shift schedules, great pay, and unmatched support.

First for a reason:

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Programs & Services
- Home to School
  Full-service student transportation
- Special Needs Transportation
  Service, training & support
- Alternative Transportation
  Non-yellow bus services
- Non-Contract Services
  À la carte services
- Charter Bus & Van Rental
  After school, field trips & events
Technology
- Halo™
  Our proprietary technology platform
- First View®
  Vehicle tracking – districts & parents
Electrification
- Electric Buses
  Sustainable fleet solutions
- First Charge™
  Above-ground charging infrastructure
Safety & Training
- Safety Culture
  Practices, processes & technology
- Driver Training
  Comprehensive programs for drivers
- First Serves®
  Student support training program
- Safety Dog
  Our safety ambassador mascot
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- Leadership
  Meet our team
- Newsroom
  Media kit, news & stats
- Press Releases
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- Investor Relations
  Financials, sustainability & ESG
Contact
- Partner with Us
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- Contact Form
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- Submit an RFP
  Request a competitive proposal
- Feedback
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- Mergers & Acquisitions
  Our step-by-step process
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Programs & Services
- Home-to-School
  Full-service student transportation
- Special Needs Transportation
  Service, training & support
- Alternative Transportation
  Non-yellow bus services
- Non-Contract Services
  À la carte services
- Charter Bus & Van Rental
  After school, field trips & events
Technology
- HALO™
  Our proprietary technology platform
- First View®
  Vehicle tracking – districts & parents
Electrification
- Electric Buses
  Sustainable fleet solutions
- First Charge™
  Above-ground charging infrastructure
Safety & Training
- Safety Culture
  Practices, processes & technology
- Driver Training
  Comprehensive programs for drivers
- First Serves®
  Student support training program
- Safety Dog
  Our safety ambassador mascot
About
- About First Student
  The leader in student transportation
- Leadership
  Meet our team
- Newsroom
  Media kit, news & stats
- Press Releases
  Recent happenings & developments
- Investor Relations
  Financials & investor relations events
Contact
- Partner with Us
  Improve your student experience
- Contact Us
  Connect with us
- Submit an RFP
  Request a competitive proposal
- Provide Feedback
  Community feedback portal
- Mergers & Acquisitions
  Our step-by-step process

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