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Driver, taxi

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 40 hours per week
  • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

Work setting

  • Willing to relocate

Tasks

  • Clean and make minor repairs to vehicle
  • Pick up passengers and drive them to destinations
  • Assist passengers with luggage and in boarding vehicles
  • Take vehicle for servicing
  • Assist clients/guests with special needs
  • Provide pick up and delivery services on request
  • Attend to complaints or difficult passengers
  • Operate dispatch systems
  • Operate two-way radios

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Driver's License

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check
  • Driver's validity licence check
  • Medical exam

Transportation/travel information

  • Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • 20/20 vision
  • Attention to detail
  • Hand-eye co-ordination

Own tools/equipment

  • Cellular phone

Personal suitability

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

Employment terms options

  • Flexible hours

Health benefits

  • Health care plan

Other benefits

  • Other benefits

Support for persons with disabilities

  • Provides visual accessibility accommodations (for example: braille, screen readers, etc.)

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)

Support for youths

  • Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth

Support for Veterans

  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Veterans

Support for Indigenous people

  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports mature workers

Supports for visible minorities

  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports members of visible minorities