# Sr Dispatcher

Senior Dispatcher - Ottawa Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Friday Are you organized, decisive, and comfortable keeping multiple moving parts on track? As a Senior Dispatcher, you will play a key role in keeping -Ottawa's daily transportation operation running safely and on time. You will coordinate routes, support drivers, resolve service issues, and help lead the dispatch function during busy morning and afternoon operations. Why join First Student as a Senior Dispatcher? Competitive Pay: $55,000 Full-time, Monday-Friday schedule Consistent, year-round work Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits Paid holidays and vacation time Career advancement opportunities Employee Assistance Program Employee discounts through PerkSpot What You’ll Do Lead daily routing, scheduling, and dispatch operations. Assign drivers and monitors to routes and oversee route bidding when applicable. Keep service moving by responding to open routes, absences, delays, breakdowns, and last-minute changes. Provide drivers with accurate route and passenger information. Review route changes and maintain required documentation. Monitor route hours and make adjustments to improve productivity and reduce overtime. M

- **Id**: 3839679
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/first-student-sr-dispatcher-5>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Ottawa, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T22:11:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T02:38:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2850
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Public Transport, Road Transport

## Company

- **Id**: 1861742
- **Name**: First Student
- **Domain**: firststudentinc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/firststudentinc-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 185
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.676
- **Repost share**: 0.005
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 33
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 55000
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 39302

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T22:11:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 70
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.695
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, urgency, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 39302
- **Is top pay**: no

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