State of Maryland

IT PRODUCTION CONTROL SPECIALIST II (#006769)

- Hourly / - BiWeekly /
- Monthly / $39,421.00-$64,814.00 Yearly


GRADE

10

CLASS ATTRIBUTES

SKILLED SERVICE      BARGAINING UNIT: X     OVERTIME ELIGIBLE      NCP

NATURE OF WORK

An Information Technology (IT) Production Control Specialist II is the full performance level of work in scheduling, controlling input and output or maintaining a tape library to process data on multipurpose, multi-tasking computer systems.  Employees in this classification do not supervise other positions.

Employees in this classification receive general supervision from an IT DP Production Control Supervisor or other data processing administrator.  Employees in this classification may be required to work evenings, weekends and holidays.  The work may be performed in a computer room and may involve exposure to moderate levels of noise and to a climate controlled environment necessary to keep the computer from overheating.  The work requires careful observance of safety procedures related to fire extinguishing systems for computers.  The work may require operating high speed equipment such as bursters, decollators or binders and may require moving boxes of paper weighing up to forty pounds.

Positions in this classification are evaluated by using the classification job evaluation methodology.  The use of this method involves comparing the assigned duties and responsibilities of a position to the job criteria found in the Nature of Work and Examples of Work sections of the classification specification.

The IT Production Control Specialist Trainee, IT Production Control Specialist I, and IT Production Control Specialist II are differentiated on the basis of degree of supervisory control exercised by the supervisor over these employees.  The IT Production Control Specialist Trainee learns to perform duties under close supervision.  The IT Production Control Specialist I performs duties under close supervision at times and general supervision at other times depending on the complexity of the specific duty being performed.  The IT Production Control Specialist II performs the full range of duties and responsibilities under general supervision.  The IT Production Control Specialist II is differentiated from the IT Production Control Specialist, Lead in that the IT Production Control Specialist, Lead assigns, reviews and approves the work and trains lower-level IT Production Control Specialists.

EXAMPLES OF WORK

Receives and registers incoming job requests and related production media as submitted by users;

Locates procedures and job control language documentation to set up and verify production job requests for submission to computer operators;

Sets up jobs for processing by computer operators by placing applications in the correct sequence and by inserting data control codes according to established job control procedures;

Releases jobs for processing by computer operators;

Reviews shift turnover sheets, printouts and trouble logs to discover job status and identify jobs that have not processed correctly;

Reruns, returns to users or refers to programmers jobs that have not processed correctly;

Verifies production output totals as detailed in job requests and job control procedure documentation and distributes output to users;

Operates equipment such as bursters, decollators or binders to break down production output;

Reviews new production jobs submitted by users for compliance with standard job control language and procedures;

Documents, files and maintains accepted job control procedures;

May use symbolic language to override established job control language for temporary changes to production jobs;

May use a remote computer terminal to set up and activate jobs to be processed by computer operators;

May schedule production jobs using job control procedures, programmer documentation and user job requests;

May initialize and label tapes with identification numbers and codes, client name and purpose of tape;

May maintain a tape library by retrieving and storing tapes for production jobs;

May send tape expiration notices to clients and purge expired tapes or update expiration listings as directed;

May operate a printer at a remote location;

Performs other related duties.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

Specific educational and experience requirements are set by the agency based on the essential job functions assigned to the position.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Class Descriptions are broad descriptions covering groups of positions used by various State departments and agencies.  Position descriptions maintained by the using department or agency specifically address the essential job functions of each position.

Class Descriptions provide information about the Nature of Work, Examples of Work, General Requirements and Acknowledgements.  The Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities; Minimum Education and Experience Requirements; Special Requirements; and recruitment and testing procedures are set by the using agency.

This is a Skilled Service classification in the State Personnel Management System.  All positions in this classification are Skilled Service positions.  Some positions in Skilled Service classifications may be designated Special Appointment in accordance with the State Personnel and Pensions Article, Section 6-405, Annotated Code of Maryland.

This classification is not assigned to a bargaining unit, as indicated by the designation of S (Supervisor), M (Manager), T (Agency Head), U (Board or Commission Member), W (Student), X (Used by Agency or Excluded by Executive Order), or Z (Confidential).  As provided by State Personnel and Pensions Article, Section 3-102, special appointment, temporary, contractual, supervisory, managerial and confidential employees are excluded collective bargaining.  Additionally, certain executive branch agencies are exempt from collective bargaining and all positions in those agencies are excluded from collective bargaining.

Employees in this classification are eligible to receive overtime compensation.  An employee who works more than the normal workweek is entitled to be compensated for that overtime, as provided by the State Personnel and Pensions Article, Section 8-305.

This classification is one level in a Non-Competitive Promotion (NCP) series.  NCP promotions are promotions by which employees may advance in grade and class level from trainee to full performance level in a classification series.  In order to be non-competitively promoted to the next level in a NCP series, an employee must: 1) perform the main purpose of the class, as defined by the Nature of Work section of the class specification; 2) receive the type of supervision defined in the class specification and 3) meet the minimum qualifications of the classification.

Date Established

Jan 1 2001 12:00AM

Date Revised

September 17, 2021

Approved By

Director, Division of Classification and Salary

CLASS: 006769; EST: 1/1/2001; REV: 9/17/2021;

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