Position : Officer Batch Scheduling(Information Technology) Megawatt Park Vacancy type: External/Internal

Task Grade : T12

Area of Speacialization : Provide an integrated service in terms of optimizing the scheduling and management of batches running in Eskom.

Department : Application Operations

Business Unit : Revenue and Customer Services

Location : South Africa (Gauteng)

Reference Number : 50780626NP

Closing Date : 2022/06/17 11:55 PM

Minimum Requirements
Qualification(s):

     National Diploma in Information Technology/Systems at NQF 6 with
     240 credits

• Related Minimum Experience:
 
 3 years’ experience in Information Technology
 Batch Scheduling experience

Skills and Competencies
• Behavioral

 Intellectual and ethical integrity
 Sound interpersonal relations
 Embraces diversity
 Teamwork
 Emotional maturity
 Professionalism
 Flexible and able to work within an undefined and continuously changing environment
 Business acumen
 Ability to work alone in shifts after hours as per scheduling shift roster
 Pro-activeness
 Dedication and commitment



• Leadership

 Ability to work and interact effectively with people
 Team player
 Results-orientated
 Stakeholder Management
 Motivating team
 Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long term goals
 Teamwork-working in a team towards a common goal as well as the ability to lead and empower a team
 Tactical thinking and decision making skills
 Knowledge sharing and coaching



• Knowledge

 Understanding of an IT environment
 Knowledge of fault logging system
 Knowledge of ISO 9001
 Knowledge of ITIL processes understanding of Eskom business and value chains
 Apply solutions to business problems
 Knowledge on systems development life cycle (SDLC)
 Applications and infrastructure
 Fault logging system
 Knowledge of batch scheduling and related interdependencies of impacted solutions/batches
 Computer technology and applications
 Knowledge of business processes in a billing environment
 Batch Scheduling experience


• Skill

 Strong communication (verbal, written, presentation)
 Good problem solving and analytical skills
 Application and operating system configuration skills
 Troubleshooting issues
 Relevant system function knowledge with regards to batches and scheduling (preferable)
 Knowledge of the MS Office package
 Attention to detail and the ability to spot errors and inconsistencies
 Carry-out Daily Support checklist activities and Perform System Health checks and reporting

Key Responsibilities
 Perform schedule management by; Planning and submitting daily, monthly, quarterly and annual schedules. Planning ad hoc requests. Controlling jobs and schedules in terms of job run times. Optimizing schedules by understanding interdependencies between jobs.
 Perform batch performance management and reporting by; investigating jobs which fail-find the fault/report or solve problem/restart and / or escalate to client to fix data and return. Reporting poor performing jobs and providing technical information to support.
 Perform scheduling tool administration by; Updating of calendars, running dates and times of cycles and managing system resources and parameters.
 Perform testing by; Executing the testing of new versions of billing system jobs. Testing changes to schedules. Co-ordinating of runs, conversion of application jobs/schedules on new servers. E.g. DR, testing and non-production environments testing.
 Perform thread pool management by; optimizing number of pools per batch/suite of batches. Monitoring to determine when pools should be bounced. Understanding which jobs are in progress and when to bounce pools.

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