Maintenance Data & Reliability Analyst

Maintenance Data & Reliability Analyst

The Maintenance Data & Reliability Analyst supports a strategic initiative to improve maintenance performance and equipment reliability within a manufacturing environment. This role transforms maintenance operations from a reactive approach to a proactive, data-driven strategy by leveraging maintenance and operational data. The analyst develops key performance indicators, enhances reporting capabilities, and supports preventive and predictive maintenance programs. This position is ideal for a data-focused professional with strong analytical skills and a passion for maintenance, reliability, and continuous improvement.

• Extract, organize, and analyze maintenance data from CMMS, ERP, and other operational systems to support data-driven decision making.
• Identify trends, recurring equipment failures, downtime drivers, and improvement opportunities using quantitative data.
• Develop and maintain maintenance dashboards, scorecards, and performance reports that clearly communicate maintenance performance and asset reliability.
• Create, track, and refine key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure maintenance effectiveness and equipment reliability.
• Validate and cleanse maintenance data to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of all reports and dashboards.
• Present analytical findings, insights, and recommendations to maintenance and operations leadership in a clear and actionable format.
• Assess current maintenance practices and identify opportunities to improve asset reliability and maintenance effectiveness.
• Support the enhancement and optimization of preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Analyze equipment downtime, maintenance costs, and work order history to improve maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Track and report key reliability metrics, including Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), equipment downtime, preventive maintenance compliance, and maintenance costs.
• Assist in developing standardized maintenance procedures, documentation standards, and reporting processes.
• Partner with maintenance leadership to evaluate current workflows, maintenance planning processes, and reporting systems, and recommend improvements.
• Help establish maintenance best practices and performance metrics that support long-term reliability and operational excellence.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings through improved maintenance planning, spare parts and inventory management, and resource utilization.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on increasing equipment uptime, reducing unplanned downtime, and improving operational efficiency.
• Provide data-driven recommendations that support long-term maintenance excellence, reliability improvements, and operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with maintenance, operations, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on maintenance priorities and initiatives.
• Apply root cause analysis techniques to understand failure modes and support corrective and preventive actions.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, XLOOKUP or VLOOKUP, data validation, and dashboard and chart development.
• Strong data analysis and reporting experience with the ability to interpret complex datasets.
• Ability to identify trends, opportunities, and root causes using quantitative data.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a strong commitment to data accuracy and consistency.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills applied to maintenance and reliability challenges.
• Ability to communicate technical and analytical information clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated capability in data analytics, including building and maintaining reports and dashboards.
• Experience with reliability and maintenance metrics such as MTBF, MTTR, downtime, and maintenance costs.
• Experience performing root cause analysis in a maintenance or operational context.
• Experience with in a manufacturing, automotive, industrial, or maintenance environment.
• Knowledge of maintenance and reliability concepts, including preventive maintenance (PM), predictive maintenance, work order…