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Location: Brooklyn, NY
Job Type: Full-Time
Pay: From $82,000 per year
Company: First Student

First Student is hiring a NYS 19-A Examiner / Driver Compliance Specialist to support driver qualification, safety compliance, training, testing, and regulatory documentation for our transportation operations.

This role is responsible for ensuring drivers remain fully compliant with New York State DMV Article 19-A, SED, and NYC DOE requirements. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, organized, comfortable working with drivers and managers, and experienced in a regulated transportation or school bus environment.

As the Driver Compliance Specialist, you will help maintain safe, compliant, and efficient transportation operations by managing driver compliance requirements at the location level.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as a certified NYS 19-A Examiner
• Conduct required pre-employment, annual, and biennial driver qualification reviews
• Administer required driver testing, evaluations, and compliance checks
• Train and evaluate drivers on safe driving procedures and regulatory requirements
• Maintain compliance with NYS DMV, SED, and NYC DOE requirements
• Manage driver qualification files and ensure documentation is accurate, complete, and current
• Monitor driver compliance status and follow up on missing or expired documentation
• Support audits, inspections, regulatory reviews, and corrective action processes
• Maintain contract compliance and ensure adherence to legal and operational requirements
• Prepare compliance reports, schedules, management reports, and official correspondence
• Enter, update, and retrieve data from fleet and compliance management systems
• Communicate with drivers, monitors, managers, customers, vendors, and internal departments
• Support additional safety, compliance, and operational needs as required

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Valid NYS 19-A Examiner License
• Minimum of 2 years of administrative, office, compliance, transportation, or operations experience
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office
• Ability to maintain accurate records and confidential information
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail and follow-up skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• SBDI certification strongly preferred
• Experience in school transportation, driver compliance, safety training, or regulated transportation operations
• Experience working with NYS DMV, SED, or NYC DOE compliance requirements
• Experience using fleet, compliance, HR, or driver management systems

This position requires the ability to work in an office and transportation facility environment. The role may require walking throughout the facility, accessing filing systems, using standard office equipment, and communicating in person, by phone, and electronically.

At First Student, safety and compliance are at the center of everything we do. In this role, you will directly support driver readiness, regulatory compliance, and safe student transportation across our operation.

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.