Production Control Lead (DATA PROCESSING ADMIN SPEC) (UMP)

Position Title:  Data Processing Administrative Specialist UMP

Agency :  Department of Innovation and Technology 
Posting Date: 04/23/2024

Closing Date: 05/31/2024
Salary:   $4,439 to $6,377 monthly  
Job Type:   Salaried 
County:   Sangamon  
Number of Vacancies:   1  
Plan/BU:   RC028   

 

This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.

 

All applicants who want to be considered for this position MUST apply electronically through the illinois.jobs2web.com website. State of Illinois employees should click the link near the top left to apply through the SuccessFactors employee career portal.

Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.

 

Posting Identification Number  37241

Position Overview

Are you looking for a rewarding career with an organization that values their staff? The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is seeking to hire qualified candidates with the opportunity to work in a dynamic, creative thinking, problem solving environment.  This position serves as the Production Control Lead performing and assisting in the establishment of critical production backups for environments on the mainframe according to agency standards; serves as a designated lead worker; assists lower-level staff with the migration of all programs, control files, and procedures (Job Control Language (JCL)) within the various production libraries for DoIT supported agencies; performs ongoing analysis, development, and maintenance of Disaster Recovery procedures for all production libraries and files which includes the systems that have been identified as critical applications referred to as Category One or life-threatening applications to ensure Disaster Recovery is accurate and all-encompassing for DoIT supported systems; and maintains and updates requests regarding Space Allocation Management System,

If you possess these knowledges, skills, abilities and experience, we invite you to apply for this position to join the DoIT Team!

 

As a State of Illinois employee, you receive a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Competitive Group Insurance benefits including health, life, dental and vision plans
• Flexible work schedules (when available and dependent upon position)
• 10 -25 days of paid vacation time annually (10 days for first year of state employment)
• 12 days of paid sick time annually which carryover year to year
• 3 paid personal business days per year
• 13-14 paid holidays per year dependent on election years
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pension plan through the State Employees Retirement System
• Deferred Compensation Program – voluntary supplemental retirement plan
• Optional pre-tax programs -Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP) & Dependent Care Assistant Plan (DCAP)
• Tuition Reimbursement Program and Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility

 

For more information regarding State of Illinois Benefits follow this link: https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/benefits/Pages/default.aspx

Essential Functions

20%  Under direction, serves as the Production Control Lead for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) performing coordinative functions for complex information processing operations:

• Assists subordinate staff in establishing critical production backups for environments on the mainframe according to agency standards.
• Performs library functions which includes the setup, scheduling, and submission of commands and mainframe production jobs to perform moves, purges, deletes, and restores of production files.
• Performs setup of jobs and schedules utilizing automated scheduling software such as, but not limited to, CA-Scheduler to ensure successful completions.
• Locates, analyzes, and resolves abends to achieve successful completions.
• Performs critical restores of production files, individual library members, or entire libraries and responds to calls for assistance on a local/regional/statewide basis.
• Reviews the work of lower-level staff verifying various backups for system catalogs, production libraries, and environments (Job Control Language (JCL), source, control and programs) are scheduled and completed successfully.
• Resolves problems associated with backups.
• Assists Supervisor with the maintenance of Disast