Administration/Production Control Technician
New York, NY · 3-5 years experience · Posted Oct 6, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3-5 years experience
- Location
- New York, NY
About the role
- The Administration/Production Control Technician reports to the night Shift Supervisor and is responsible for monitoring job flows controlled by the CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) scheduling system.
- Jobs are executed on a z/OS mainframe, UNIX, or PeopleSoft server.
- The technician responds quickly to job failures by determining the general cause and contacting the appropriate on-call staff member.
Responsibilities
- Monitor job flows controlled by the CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) scheduling system
- Respond quickly to job failures by determining the general cause of the problem
- Contact the appropriate on-call staff member for remediation
- Occasionally migrate software to the production and/or test environments
- Document problems
- Set up job flow dependencies
- Execute and troubleshoot test flows
Requirements
- A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering or a related field and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to information technology service management, process management, operations
- A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to information technology service management, process management, operations
- Education and/or experience which is equivalent to '1' or '2' above
Preferred qualifications
- Extensive experience working in Production Control with mainframe or mid-range computer Familiarity with establishing job dependencies
- Experience troubleshooting JCL errors, using GDGs, and utilities such as File-AID and IDCAMS Knowledge of CA Workload Automation DE or similar enterprise scheduling package
- Knowledge of z/OS JCL and TSO/ISPF
- Experience with mainframe compile, link, and bind procedures
- Familiarity with file transfer protocols such as FTPS and/or Connect: Direct
- Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills. Strong understanding of standard SDLC methodologies
- Knowledge of IMS, D82 Knowledge of UNIX
- Knowledge of PUTTY, WinSCP
Skills
- CA Workload Automation DE
- z/OS
- UNIX
- PeopleSoft
- File-AID
- IDCAMS
- JCL
- TSO/ISPF
- FTPS
- IMS
- PUTTY
- WinSCP
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