Production Control & Job Scheduling Specialist

NYC IT Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12 Paid Holidays per Year

Paid Sick Leave - 10 days per year

Paid Annual Leave / Vacation

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) - HCF

NYCE IRA - Traditional and Roth IRA

Deferred Compensation Plans - 457 and

401(k)

Pension / NYCERS Retirement System

Prescription Drug Coverage

Vision Coverage

Dental Coverage

Health insurance

Job summary

NYC IT Inc. is seeking an experienced Job Administration / Production Control Technician to support a government technology environment in New York City.

The role focuses on production control, job scheduling, batch processing, and mainframe environments, including UNIX and PeopleSoft. The ideal candidate will monitor job flows, troubleshoot failures, manage dependencies, and execute test cycles in a fast-paced, secure NYC setting.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of scheduling/production control experience.
• 5+ years diagnosing and documenting critical job failures and scheduling issues.
• 5+ years hands-on experience with schedulers, batch processes, and cycle flows.
• Experience with CA Workload Automation DE, z/OS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, UNIX, PeopleSoft, or related technologies is highly preferred.
• Strong communication, analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production job flows using CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) or a similar platform.
• Monitor jobs across z/OS, UNIX, and PeopleSoft environments.
• Troubleshoot job failures and identify root causes of production issues.
• Escalate critical failures to appropriate technical teams.
• Establish and maintain job-flow dependencies.
• Execute and troubleshoot test flows.
• Document production issues, job failures, and scheduling problems.
• Support batch processes and cycle flows.
• Perform occasional software migrations to production and test environments.

Skills

CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries)

z/OS

JCL

TSO/ISPF

UNIX

PeopleSoft

Scheduling/production control

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

CA Workload Automation DE

z/OS

JCL

TSO/ISPF

UNIX

PeopleSoft

Job description

NYC IT Inc. is seeking an experienced Job Administration / Production Control Technician to support a government technology environment in New York City.

The role focuses on production control, job scheduling, batch processing, and mainframe environments, including UNIX and PeopleSoft. The ideal candidate will monitor job flows, troubleshoot failures, manage dependencies, and execute test cycles in a fast-paced, secure NYC setting.