Reliability Planning Analyst
$63k - $65k+ 401(k) match + Employee stock purchase plan
Junior
Bachelor's
Long Island City, Queens, NY, USA
In PersonOn-site in Long Island City; may require local travel to other locations and occasional air travel.
Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Maintenance and Reliability Engineering
No H1B Sponsorship
About the job
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in a technical field, or a demonstrated equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Two years of facility planning experience.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or able to work without sponsorship.
- Proficiency in a computerized maintenance management system such as Maximo, SAP, or an equivalent program is preferred.
- Preventive or predictive maintenance planning experience is preferred.
- Ability to coordinate parts and assign appropriate skilled labor to ensure successful completion is preferred.
- Ability to write processes and procedures related to facility maintenance work is preferred.
- Practical experience with continuous improvement techniques such as Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Six Sigma, 5S, or Toyota Production Systems is preferred.
- A demonstrated understanding of an effective safety culture is preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project is preferred.
- Strong organization and time-management skills are preferred.
- A valid state driver's license may be required.
- Ability to obtain a security access badge at the client location is required.
- The role may require various shifts, weekends, and alternative work schedules.
- Offered candidates must pass a pre-employment background check and substance abuse test.
- Ability to wear steel-toe safety shoes, safety glasses, gloves, hard hats, and other personal protective equipment as needed.
- Ability to perform repetitive wrist movements, walk extensively throughout facilities, read and understand documents or computer-screen information, use office equipment and a computer keyboard, attend meetings throughout the site, communicate by telephone and in group settings, and move light-to-medium-weight materials.
- Demonstrated fluency in computer use, including the full Microsoft product line.
- Ability to maintain acceptable performance and contribution while coping with job and workplace stressors.
- Ability to interact professionally and courteously with clients, including during stressful periods.
Responsibilities
- Uphold safety, health, and environmental procedures; communicate directly; and support environmental, health, and safety policies to ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, company, and site-specific rules and regulations.
- Act as the principal liaison between the maintenance department and operations planning.
- Maximize resources by identifying parts, materials, special tools, external services, rentals, and documentation, and by establishing, maintaining, and improving maintenance planning and scheduling workflows and processes.
- Receive and review planned work orders from requesting departments, screening each to verify it is properly completed and contains all required information.
- Examine planned work orders to determine scope and best practices for completing the work.
- Identify work requiring engineering and design and review it with the appropriate parties.
- Escalate issues to the Reliability Manager when work requires special tools, personnel, or approvals.
- Develop the full scope of work, including estimated cost and time for repair, preventive, predictive, and improvement maintenance activities involving plant equipment, buildings, and grounds.
- Prepare job plans for scheduling, detailing parts, materials, special tools, external services, documentation, planned costs, and task sequencing.
- Perform root-cause analysis for continuous improvement.
- Initiate and implement best practices for planning and scheduling preventive and predictive maintenance work.
- Analyze unplanned work orders and events for incorporation into corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure maintenance personnel understand work instructions through a procedures-based maintenance strategy and best practices for maintenance tasks.
- Ensure maintenance personnel update and close work orders upon completion.
- Prepare reports, collect and analyze data, and recommend improvements to plant operations and maintenance- and operations-related problems.
- Maximize equipment reliability and availability through planned maintenance, returning equipment to design capacity and developing procedures that support defect-free maintenance work.
- Develop maintenance work schedules for affected areas, including preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and service work orders.
- Develop and follow work-task prioritization.
- Conduct post-job reviews to verify the work performed and post-repair operation are satisfactory.
- Identify and adjust the scope of preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and service work orders based on activity results.
- Maintain the computerized maintenance management system; manage and track work orders, backlog, and spare parts; create plant-equipment histories; and reallocate resources as needed.
- Coordinate with the Site Maintenance Manager and Operations to schedule the workforce and resources for workforce and cost optimization.
- Develop a system of planned job packages for recurring tasks.
- Identify, secure, and pre-position required parts and materials; provide stores with bills of material and kits of parts for work orders.
- Create a critical-spares list and procure or identify procurement sources to reduce lead times.
- Continuously improve job estimates and planning and scheduling processes using feedback from the maintenance team.
- Maintain accurate planning and scheduling performance metrics and provide information for continuous improvement.
- Apply an understanding of skilled crafts, including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; mechanics; electrical work; pneumatics; hydraulics; plumbing; pipe fitting; and cranes.
- Track metrics such as schedule compliance, preventive maintenance compliance, mean time between failure, planned versus reactive maintenance, and backlog.
- Travel locally to other locations for support as required; the role may also involve travel to company, customer, or vendor locations, including occasional air travel.
Desired Qualifications
- Proficiency in a computerized maintenance management system such as Maximo, SAP, or an equivalent program.
- Preventive or predictive maintenance planning experience.
- Ability to coordinate parts and assign appropriate skilled labor to ensure successful completion.
- Ability to write processes and procedures related to facility maintenance work.
- Practical experience with continuous improvement techniques such as Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Six Sigma, 5S, or Toyota Production Systems.
- A demonstrated understanding of an effective safety culture.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
- Strong organization and time-management skills.
About the company
Amentum provides technical and engineering services to government agencies to support high-stakes missions such as space launch, nuclear cleanup, and military operations. Its offerings combine workforce, engineering, and mission-support capabilities across the full lifecycle—from planning and design to operations and sustainment—delivered as contracted services. The company differentiates itself through scale and breadth: formed from a spin-off and expanded by acquiring DynCorp and PAE, and later merging with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber & Intelligence units, making it one of the largest government services contractors with about 53,000 employees and a public listing (AMTM). Its main goal is to help the U.S. and its allies achieve mission success for critical national programs by providing comprehensive, reliable government-focused technical services.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Post IPO Equity
Headquarters
Chantilly, Virginia
Founded
2020
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What believers are saying
- On September 29, 2026, Amentum won a $572.3 million NORAD sustainment contract.
- On October 1, 2026, Sellafield named OneAxIoM preferred supplier for a $2.78 billion framework.
- On September 1, 2026, SSEN Transmission selected Amentum for cyber upgrades across Britain's grid.
What critics are saying
- Maryland WARN notices cut 382 Hanover jobs by November 2026 after intelligence-contract transitions.
- A January 23, 2026 False Claims Act case against Amentum adds reimbursement and reputational risk.
- Protests, schedule slips, or safety incidents can crush backlog conversion and trigger catastrophic contract loss.
What makes Amentum unique
- Amentum controls mission-critical nuclear, cyber, and defense infrastructure across the US and UK.
- Its 2024 Jacobs merger created a 50,000-employee scale advantage in cleared programs.
- Incumbency at Sellafield, Sizewell C, and Cheyenne Mountain deepens switching costs.
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Benefits
- Hybrid Work Options