Data Processing Equipment Operator
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Key sections:
Overview & Benefits: includes description about Oakland County, mission, competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, opportunity to do meaningful work. Also link to benefits page.
General Summary: includes salary range $55,319 - $74,117, full-time on-site.
Then "Do you enjoy solving technical problems..." is intro.
What You’ll Do: list of duties.
Why You’ll Love It Here: bullet points.
Minimum Qualifications: includes required minimum qualifications (list) and additional desirable qualifications.
Supervision Exercised: description.
Essential Job Functions: list.
Additional Duties & Responsibilities: list.
Essential Physical & Mental Requirements: list.
Working Conditions: sentence.
Important Note: about job description purpose (maybe not needed? It's substantive but maybe considered boilerplate? It's about job description purpose; but it's not boilerplate like EEO. It's part of description. We'll keep.
Additional Minimum Qualifications: Union* BU101... (maybe include as part of qualifications).
We need to decide sections: About the role (overview), Responsibilities (What You’ll Do + Additional Duties & Responsibilities + Essential Job Functions?), Requirements (Minimum Qualifications), Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements?), Skills (maybe from desirable qualifications), Benefits (Overview & Benefits includes benefits mention), Pay (salary range), Schedule (full-time on-site, shift work). Also maybe Working Conditions.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
We need to avoid duplication.
Let's extract substantive content:
Overview & Benefits paragraph:
"Oakland County is more than just a workplace. It is a place where you can make a real difference. As one of Michigan’s leading public service organizations, we are committed to strengthening communities, delivering essential services, and improving the quality of life for nearly 1.3 million residents. When you join our team, you become part of a mission-driven workforce guided by integrity, innovation, and a passion for public service. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that matters. Apply today and help shape the future of Oakland County, where we are All Ways Moving Forward. For more information about Oakland County benefits and employee perks, please visit: https://www.oakgov.com/government/human-resources/benefits/new-hire"
We should remove application instruction "Apply today and help shape..." maybe considered application instruction? It says "Apply today and help shape the future..." That's a call to apply. According to instructions: remove application instructions. So we should remove that sentence. Also the link to benefits maybe keep as part of benefits? It's a URL; we can keep as prose.
Thus Overview & Benefits prose: keep the rest.
General Summary: "$55,319 - $74,117 This position is full-time on-site". That's pay and schedule.
Then "Do you enjoy solving technical problems and keeping essential systems running? Join Oakland County as a Data Processing Equipment Operator and help support the technology County teams rely on every day." That's introductory prose maybe part of About the role.
What You’ll Do bullet list:
- Operate computers and related equipment to process moderately complex programs and assist with highly complex programs
- Monitor system consoles, identify issues, and make adjustments or take corrective action
- Help users with technical questions and guide less experienced operators
- Use County and department software to complete assignments
- Work assigned day, afternoon, or midnight shifts, which may include weekends and holidays
- Perform work that may require exerting approximately 50 pounds of force
Why You’ll Love It Here bullet list:
- Help keep County systems running
- Build your technical skills while working with a variety of programs and equipment
- Collaborate with users and fellow operators to solve problems
Minimum Qualifications: Required Minimum Qualifications (list):
- Be a high school graduate or have a certificate of successful completion of the General Educational Development Test; AND
- Have had three (3) years full-time experience operating large scale mainframe or server computers with multiprocessing, teleprocessing and all associated peripherals.
- Pass the complete examination, including the employment medical, established for the class of Data Processing Equipment Operator II.
- Successfully complete the six month probationary period.
Additional Desirable Qualifications (list):
- Considerable knowledge of the operation of IBM computers and peripheral equipment.
- Considerable knowledge of the methods and techniques employed in recording, interpreting, and tabulating data through the use of a computer.
- Considerable ability to work with a high degree of accuracy in receiving and processing complex data.
- Considerable ability to work under rigorous production schedules.
- Considerable ability to effectively adapt work schedules to meet changing priorities and/or emergencies.
- Considerable knowledge of and ability to utilize current word processing, spreadsheet, database, e-mail and Internet software.
- Reasonable ability to exercise mature judgment and initiative in analyzing problems and recommending solutions.
- Reasonable ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other data processing employees and with representatives of user departments and municipalities.
- Reasonable ability to direct the work activities of other personnel.
- Reasonable knowledge of modern office and record keeping practices and procedures.
- Reasonable ability to follow complex oral and written instructions.
- Reasonable knowledge of local governmental programs and operations.
Supervision Exercised: "When designated as a shift leader, instructs, assigns and reviews work of other Data Processing Equipment Operators."
Essential Job Functions list:
- Operates the computer and peripheral equipment and monitors the operator's console, responding to instructions and messages displayed there by the manipulation of control switches as required to maintain efficient operation.
- Performs job set‑up necessary to run moderately difficult and complex programs using documentation and procedures provided by the departmental programming and production control staff as well as published standards.
- Prepares the peripheral input/output devices to ensure efficient job‑to‑job transitions.
- Performs job tear‑down duties at the completion of the program's operation, removes documents from printer and forwards to the Quality Assurance Unit for final preparation and distribution.
Additional Duties & Responsibilities list:
- Places service calls, installs replacement devices, converses with customers over the phone and otherwise takes action to resolve customer problems with the teleprocessing network.
- Responds to requests for assistance from customers or departmental personnel in areas of missing or delayed reports and other applications failures.
- Utilizes current county-wide and/or department specific software to complete assignments.
Essential Physical & Mental Requirements list:
- Ability to communicate to accurately convey information.
- Ability to move, lift or carry computer peripherals that may be larger or awkwardly sized.
- Ability to gather, interpret and analyze data of various sources.
Working Conditions: "Work is performed in a typical office or centralized computer facility environment."
Important Note: "IMPORTANT NOTE: The primary purpose of this job description is to set a fair and equitable salary range for this job classification. Generally, only those key duties necessary for proper job evaluation and/or labor market analysis have been included. Other duties and responsibilities will be assigned by the supervisor."
Additional Minimum Qualifications: "Union* BU101 - United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 889: Information Technology Non-Supv (UAW)" maybe include as part of qualifications.
We need to decide sections.
Potential sections:
- About the role (overview + intro)
- Responsibilities (What You’ll Do + Additional Duties & Responsibilities + Essential Job Functions? Could combine but maybe separate: Responsibilities (What You’ll Do) and Additional Duties (maybe part of Responsibilities). To avoid many thin sections, we can combine all duty-like lists under Responsibilities.
- Requirements (Minimum Qualifications + Additional Desirable Qualifications + Supervision Exercised + Union info) maybe as Requirements.
- Skills (maybe from desirable qualifications) but we could incorporate into Requirements.
- Benefits (Overview & Benefits paragraph minus application instruction and link maybe).
- Pay (salary range)
- Schedule (full-time on-site + shift details)
- Working Conditions (maybe as its own section or part of Responsibilities? Could be separate but it's substantive.)
We must not create sections with filler. All have content.
We need to use
for each section heading.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
Thus for each section, if we have a list, we use
- . For prose,
.
We need to preserve all substantive info; we can't lose any.
Let's craft sections:
Section: About the role
Content: Overview & Benefits paragraph (excluding application instruction) + introductory sentence "Do you enjoy solving technical problems and keeping essential systems running? Join Oakland County as a Data Processing Equipment Operator and help support the technology County teams rely on every day."
We also have link to benefits page; we can keep as part of prose.
Thus About the role prose: combine.
We'll output:
About the role
Oakland County is more than just a workplace. It is a place where you can make a real difference. As one of Michigan’s leading public service organizations, we are committed to strengthening communities, delivering essential services, and improving the quality of life for nearly 1.3 million residents. When you join our team, you become part of a mission-driven workforce guided by integrity, innovation, and a passion for public service. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that matters. For more information about Oakland County benefits and employee perks, please visit: https://www.oakgov.com/government/human-resources/benefits/new-hire Do you enjoy solving technical problems and keeping essential systems running? Join Oakland County as a Data Processing Equipment Operator and help support the technology County teams rely on every day.
Note: we removed "Apply today and help shape the future of Oakland County, where we are All Ways Moving Forward." That's application instruction.
Now Responsibilities section: combine What You’ll Do, Essential Job Functions, Additional Duties & Responsibilities.
We need to list all items as - . Ensure we don't duplicate.
List items:
From What You’ll Do:
- Operate computers and related equipment to process moderately complex programs and assist with highly complex programs
- Monitor system consoles, identify issues, and make adjustments or take corrective action
- Help users with technical questions and guide less experienced operators
- Use County and department software to complete assignments
- Work assigned day, afternoon, or midnight shifts, which may include weekends and holidays
- Perform work that may require exerting approximately 50 pounds of force
From Essential Job Functions:
- Operates the computer and peripheral equipment and monitors the operator's console, responding to instructions and messages displayed there by the manipulation of control switches as required to maintain efficient operation.
- Performs job set‑up necessary to run moderately difficult and complex programs using documentation and procedures provided by the departmental programming and production control staff as well as published standards.
- Prepares the peripheral input/output devices to ensure efficient job‑to‑job transitions.
- Performs job tear‑down duties at the completion of the program's operation, removes documents from printer and forwards to the Quality Assurance Unit for final preparation and distribution.
From Additional Duties & Responsibilities:
- Places service calls, installs replacement devices, converses with customers over the phone and otherwise takes action to resolve customer problems with the teleprocessing network.
- Responds to requests for assistance from customers or departmental personnel in areas of missing or delayed reports and other applications failures.
- Utilizes current county-wide and/or department specific software to complete assignments.
Note some overlap: "Use County and department software to complete assignments" similar to "Utilizes
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key sections: Overview & Benefits: includes description about Oakland County, mission, competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, opportunity to do meaningful work. Also link to benefits page. General Summary: includes salary range $55,319 - $74,117, full-time on-site. Then "Do you enjoy solving technical problems..." is intro. What You’ll Do: list of duties. Why You’ll Love It Here: bullet points. Minimum Qualifications: includes required minimum qualifications (list) and additional desirable qualifications. Supervision Exercised: description. Essential Job Functions: list. Additional Duties & Responsibilities: list. Essential Physical & Mental Requirements: list. Working Conditions: sentence. Important Note: about job description purpose (maybe not needed? It's substantive but maybe considered boilerplate? It's about job description purpose; but it's not boilerplate like EEO. It's part of description. We'll keep. Additional Minimum Qualifications: Union* BU101... (maybe include as part of qualifications). We need to decide sections: About the role (overview), Responsibilities (What You’ll Do + Additional Duties & Responsibilities + Essential Job Functions?), Requirements (Minimum Qualifications), Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements?), Skills (maybe from desirable qualifications), Benefits (Overview & Benefits includes benefits mention), Pay (salary range), Schedule (full-time on-site, shift work). Also maybe Working Conditions. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. We need to avoid duplication. Let's extract substantive content: Overview & Benefits paragraph: "Oakland County is more than just a workplace. It is a place where you can make a real difference. As one of Michigan’s leading public service organizations, we are committed to strengthening communities, delivering essential services, and improving the quality of life for nearly 1.3 million residents. When you join our team, you become part of a mission-driven workforce guided by integrity, innovation, and a passion for public service. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that matters. Apply today and help shape the future of Oakland County, where we are All Ways Moving Forward. For more information about Oakland County benefits and employee perks, please visit: https://www.oakgov.com/government/human-resources/benefits/new-hire" We should remove application instruction "Apply today and help shape..." maybe considered application instruction? It says "Apply today and help shape the future..." That's a call to apply. According to instructions: remove application instructions. So we should remove that sentence. Also the link to benefits maybe keep as part of benefits? It's a URL; we can keep as prose. Thus Overview & Benefits prose: keep the rest. General Summary: "$55,319 - $74,117 This position is full-time on-site". That's pay and schedule. Then "Do you enjoy solving technical problems and keeping essential systems running? Join Oakland County as a Data Processing Equipment Operator and help support the technology County teams rely on every day." That's introductory prose maybe part of About the role. What You’ll Do bullet list: - Operate computers and related equipment to process moderately complex programs and assist with highly complex programs - Monitor system consoles, identify issues, and make adjustments or take corrective action - Help users with technical questions and guide less experienced operators - Use County and department software to complete assignments - Work assigned day, afternoon, or midnight shifts, which may include weekends and holidays - Perform work that may require exerting approximately 50 pounds of force Why You’ll Love It Here bullet list: - Help keep County systems running - Build your technical skills while working with a variety of programs and equipment - Collaborate with users and fellow operators to solve problems Minimum Qualifications: Required Minimum Qualifications (list): - Be a high school graduate or have a certificate of successful completion of the General Educational Development Test; AND - Have had three (3) years full-time experience operating large scale mainframe or server computers with multiprocessing, teleprocessing and all associated peripherals. - Pass the complete examination, including the employment medical, established for the class of Data Processing Equipment Operator II. - Successfully complete the six month probationary period. Additional Desirable Qualifications (list): - Considerable knowledge of the operation of IBM computers and peripheral equipment. - Considerable knowledge of the methods and techniques employed in recording, interpreting, and tabulating data through the use of a computer. - Considerable ability to work with a high degree of accuracy in receiving and processing complex data. - Considerable ability to work under rigorous production schedules. - Considerable ability to effectively adapt work schedules to meet changing priorities and/or emergencies. - Considerable knowledge of and ability to utilize current word processing, spreadsheet, database, e-mail and Internet software. - Reasonable ability to exercise mature judgment and initiative in analyzing problems and recommending solutions. - Reasonable ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other data processing employees and with representatives of user departments and municipalities. - Reasonable ability to direct the work activities of other personnel. - Reasonable knowledge of modern office and record keeping practices and procedures. - Reasonable ability to follow complex oral and written instructions. - Reasonable knowledge of local governmental programs and operations. Supervision Exercised: "When designated as a shift leader, instructs, assigns and reviews work of other Data Processing Equipment Operators." Essential Job Functions list: - Operates the computer and peripheral equipment and monitors the operator's console, responding to instructions and messages displayed there by the manipulation of control switches as required to maintain efficient operation. - Performs job set‑up necessary to run moderately difficult and complex programs using documentation and procedures provided by the departmental programming and production control staff as well as published standards. - Prepares the peripheral input/output devices to ensure efficient job‑to‑job transitions. - Performs job tear‑down duties at the completion of the program's operation, removes documents from printer and forwards to the Quality Assurance Unit for final preparation and distribution. Additional Duties & Responsibilities list: - Places service calls, installs replacement devices, converses with customers over the phone and otherwise takes action to resolve customer problems with the teleprocessing network. - Responds to requests for assistance from customers or departmental personnel in areas of missing or delayed reports and other applications failures. - Utilizes current county-wide and/or department specific software to complete assignments. Essential Physical & Mental Requirements list: - Ability to communicate to accurately convey information. - Ability to move, lift or carry computer peripherals that may be larger or awkwardly sized. - Ability to gather, interpret and analyze data of various sources. Working Conditions: "Work is performed in a typical office or centralized computer facility environment." Important Note: "IMPORTANT NOTE: The primary purpose of this job description is to set a fair and equitable salary range for this job classification. Generally, only those key duties necessary for proper job evaluation and/or labor market analysis have been included. Other duties and responsibilities will be assigned by the supervisor." Additional Minimum Qualifications: "Union* BU101 - United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 889: Information Technology Non-Supv (UAW)" maybe include as part of qualifications. We need to decide sections. Potential sections: - About the role (overview + intro) - Responsibilities (What You’ll Do + Additional Duties & Responsibilities + Essential Job Functions? Could combine but maybe separate: Responsibilities (What You’ll Do) and Additional Duties (maybe part of Responsibilities). To avoid many thin sections, we can combine all duty-like lists under Responsibilities. - Requirements (Minimum Qualifications + Additional Desirable Qualifications + Supervision Exercised + Union info) maybe as Requirements. - Skills (maybe from desirable qualifications) but we could incorporate into Requirements. - Benefits (Overview & Benefits paragraph minus application instruction and link maybe). - Pay (salary range) - Schedule (full-time on-site + shift details) - Working Conditions (maybe as its own section or part of Responsibilities? Could be separate but it's substantive.) We must not create sections with filler. All have content. We need to use
for each section heading.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
Thus for each section, if we have a list, we use
- . For prose,
.
We need to preserve all substantive info; we can't lose any.
Let's craft sections:
Section: About the role
Content: Overview & Benefits paragraph (excluding application instruction) + introductory sentence "Do you enjoy solving technical problems and keeping essential systems running? Join Oakland County as a Data Processing Equipment Operator and help support the technology County teams rely on every day."
We also have link to benefits page; we can keep as part of prose.
Thus About the role prose: combine.
We'll output:
About the role
Oakland County is more than just a workplace. It is a place where you can make a real difference. As one of Michigan’s leading public service organizations, we are committed to strengthening communities, delivering essential services, and improving the quality of life for nearly 1.3 million residents. When you join our team, you become part of a mission-driven workforce guided by integrity, innovation, and a passion for public service. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that matters. For more information about Oakland County benefits and employee perks, please visit: https://www.oakgov.com/government/human-resources/benefits/new-hire Do you enjoy solving technical problems and keeping essential systems running? Join Oakland County as a Data Processing Equipment Operator and help support the technology County teams rely on every day.
Note: we removed "Apply today and help shape the future of Oakland County, where we are All Ways Moving Forward." That's application instruction.
Now Responsibilities section: combine What You’ll Do, Essential Job Functions, Additional Duties & Responsibilities.
We need to list all items as - . Ensure we don't duplicate.
List items:
From What You’ll Do:
- Operate computers and related equipment to process moderately complex programs and assist with highly complex programs
- Monitor system consoles, identify issues, and make adjustments or take corrective action
- Help users with technical questions and guide less experienced operators
- Use County and department software to complete assignments
- Work assigned day, afternoon, or midnight shifts, which may include weekends and holidays
- Perform work that may require exerting approximately 50 pounds of force
From Essential Job Functions:
- Operates the computer and peripheral equipment and monitors the operator's console, responding to instructions and messages displayed there by the manipulation of control switches as required to maintain efficient operation.
- Performs job set‑up necessary to run moderately difficult and complex programs using documentation and procedures provided by the departmental programming and production control staff as well as published standards.
- Prepares the peripheral input/output devices to ensure efficient job‑to‑job transitions.
- Performs job tear‑down duties at the completion of the program's operation, removes documents from printer and forwards to the Quality Assurance Unit for final preparation and distribution.
From Additional Duties & Responsibilities:
- Places service calls, installs replacement devices, converses with customers over the phone and otherwise takes action to resolve customer problems with the teleprocessing network.
- Responds to requests for assistance from customers or departmental personnel in areas of missing or delayed reports and other applications failures.
- Utilizes current county-wide and/or department specific software to complete assignments.
Note some overlap: "Use County and department software to complete assignments" similar to "Utilizes
for prose. Thus for each section, if we have a list, we use
- . For prose,
. We need to preserve all substantive info; we can't lose any. Let's craft sections: Section: About the role Content: Overview & Benefits paragraph (excluding application instruction) + introductory sentence "Do you enjoy solving technical problems and keeping essential systems running? Join Oakland County as a Data Processing Equipment Operator and help support the technology County teams rely on every day." We also have link to benefits page; we can keep as part of prose. Thus About the role prose: combine. We'll output:
About the role
Oakland County is more than just a workplace. It is a place where you can make a real difference. As one of Michigan’s leading public service organizations, we are committed to strengthening communities, delivering essential services, and improving the quality of life for nearly 1.3 million residents. When you join our team, you become part of a mission-driven workforce guided by integrity, innovation, and a passion for public service. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that matters. For more information about Oakland County benefits and employee perks, please visit: https://www.oakgov.com/government/human-resources/benefits/new-hire Do you enjoy solving technical problems and keeping essential systems running? Join Oakland County as a Data Processing Equipment Operator and help support the technology County teams rely on every day.
Note: we removed "Apply today and help shape the future of Oakland County, where we are All Ways Moving Forward." That's application instruction. Now Responsibilities section: combine What You’ll Do, Essential Job Functions, Additional Duties & Responsibilities. We need to list all items as- . Ensure we don't duplicate. List items: From What You’ll Do: - Operate computers and related equipment to process moderately complex programs and assist with highly complex programs - Monitor system consoles, identify issues, and make adjustments or take corrective action - Help users with technical questions and guide less experienced operators - Use County and department software to complete assignments - Work assigned day, afternoon, or midnight shifts, which may include weekends and holidays - Perform work that may require exerting approximately 50 pounds of force From Essential Job Functions: - Operates the computer and peripheral equipment and monitors the operator's console, responding to instructions and messages displayed there by the manipulation of control switches as required to maintain efficient operation. - Performs job set‑up necessary to run moderately difficult and complex programs using documentation and procedures provided by the departmental programming and production control staff as well as published standards. - Prepares the peripheral input/output devices to ensure efficient job‑to‑job transitions. - Performs job tear‑down duties at the completion of the program's operation, removes documents from printer and forwards to the Quality Assurance Unit for final preparation and distribution. From Additional Duties & Responsibilities: - Places service calls, installs replacement devices, converses with customers over the phone and otherwise takes action to resolve customer problems with the teleprocessing network. - Responds to requests for assistance from customers or departmental personnel in areas of missing or delayed reports and other applications failures. - Utilizes current county-wide and/or department specific software to complete assignments. Note some overlap: "Use County and department software to complete assignments" similar to "Utilizes