Job opening: Computer Assistant (Scheduler/Production Controller)

Salary: $49 025 - 63 733 per year

Published at: Nov 19 2024

Employment Type: Full-time

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Duties

WHAT IS THE TAXPAYER SERVICES DIVISION? A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas: Taxpayer Services Customer Assistance, Relationship and Education. Distribution - Correspondence Production Services - Operations Bloomington. The following are the duties of this position at the full working level: Plans, schedules, and controls the processing of tax data on major corporate and departmental computer systems. Analyzes and evaluates requirements for computer processing by identifying work flow and sequence equipment and capacity requirements, and job interrelationships. Reviews system reports and logs to identify scheduling conflicts, processing problems, or job failures and determines corrective action. Ensures correct restoration of data files and data bases at the proper restart point. Receives program additions, deletions and changes from programmers and various external sources. Evaluates systems change requests to determine modifications to existing set-ups, schedules, run streams, and dependencies with other systems and programs. May serve as OJT or formal classroom instructor. This position has career progression. If you are selected at a grade level lower than the full working level, you may be non-competitively promoted as your career progresses. For example, you may be hired as a GS-05, but if the position has career progression to GS-11, then you may move from a GS-05 to a GS-11 in as little as three years.

Requirements

Qualifications

Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume. You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-7 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience includes: Experience that is related to the work of this position and has provided you with the competencies required for successful job performance. Examples of qualifying experience may have been gained in: operating computer equipment; providing support to a Local Area Network (LAN); analyzing data quickly and reading computer printouts to extract necessary information; recognizing/correcting malfunctions and reporting findings to responsible personnel; receiving, testing and installing new products; installing software updates. AND You must meet the following special requirements: May be required to work holidays and weekends, depending on the workload. This is a physical job requiring you to be on your feet for extended periods, up to 8 hours a day, in an environmentally controlled space. You must be able to lift, push, pull & carry 50 lbs. For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

Education

For positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying for this position by substituting education or training for experience, submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent. An official transcript will be required if you are selected.

A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.