Reliability Planning Analyst (RPA)

Amentum company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) matching

Educational reimbursement

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a Reliability Planning Analyst to support our team in a manufacturing, warehouse/distribution, and office environment. The role focuses on planning and coordinating labor, parts and materials, tools, permits, and documentation to maximize productivity and ensure safe, efficient work control plans.

Responsibilities include reviewing and prioritizing work orders, developing detailed job plans, performing root cause analyses, and driving continuous improvement in maintenance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or demonstrated equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Two years of Facility Planning experience.
• Must be U.S. Citizen or able to work without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Acts as the principal liaison between the maintenance department and operation planning.
• Maximizes resources by identifying parts, materials, special tools, external services, rentals and documentation.
• Receives and reviews all planned work orders from the requesting departments.
• Reviews planned work orders to verify proper completion with all required information.
• Examines planned work orders and determines scope and best practices to accomplish work.
• Identifies work requiring engineering and design and reviews with proper entities.
• Escalates issues to the Reliability Manager for special tools or approvals.
• Develops full scope and extent of work including cost and time for maintenance activities.
• Prepares job plans for scheduling with parts, materials, and sequencing.
• Performs root cause analysis for continuous improvement.
• Initiates and implements best practices in planning/scheduling preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Analyzes unplanned work orders for corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensures maintenance personnel understand work instructions and close out work orders.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

Root cause analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree (technical)

Tools

Maximo

SAP

Job description

Amentum is seeking a Reliability Planning Analyst to support our team of multi-skilled technicians in a manufacturing, warehouse/distribution, and office environment.

The Reliability Planning Analyst, is responsible for the effective execution of all maintenance work controls processes. The primary role is to improve work force productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination (scheduling) of labor, parts and material, tools and equipment, required permits, specialized documentation and equipment access. This position is empowered to manage work priority, develop job plans, define parts and materials, define crafts and skills, and engage the proper resources to develop a safe, effective and efficient work control plan.

Responsibilities:

• Upholds safety, health, and environmental procedures; communicates directly; and supports the EHS policies to ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA and Company and Site-Specific rules and regulations always.

• Acts as the principal liaison between the maintenance department and operation planning.

• Maximizes resources by identifying parts, materials, special tools, external services, rentals and documentation by establishing, maintaining and improving the maintenance planning and scheduling flow and process tasks.

• Receives and reviews all planned work orders from the requesting departments. Reviews and screens each work order to verify proper completion with all required information.

• Examines planned work orders and determines scope and best practices to accomplish work.

• Identifies work requiring engineering and design and reviews with proper entities.

• Escalates issues to the Reliability Manager for work that requires special tools, personnel or special approvals.

• Develops full scope and extent of work required, including cost and time required to conduct the relevant repair, preventive, predictive, and improvement maintenance activities of the plant equipment, buildings and grounds.

• Prepares job plans for scheduling, detailing parts, materials, special tools and external services and documentation with planned costs. Job plans to include the sequencing of associated tasks.

• Performs root cause analysis for continuous improvement.

• Initiates and implements best practices with emphasis on planning/scheduling the preventive and predictive maintenance work.

• Analyzes unplanned work orders and occurrences for incorporation into corrective and preventive actions.

• Ensures that all maintenance personnel understand the work instructions using a procedures-based maintenance strategy and best practices for all maintenance tasks.

• Ensures maintenance personnel update and close each work order when completed.

• Prepares reports, collects and analyzes data, and makes recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance and operations related problems.

• Maximizes equipment reliability and availability through effective use of planned maintenance to quickly return equipment to design capacity and develops effective and applicable procedures to ensure defect free quality maintenance work.

• Develops maintenance work schedule for affected areas including PM, PDM and Service Work Orders (SWOs).

• Develops and adheres to prioritization of work tasks.

• Performs post job reviews to ensure actual work performed and post repair operation is satisfactory.

• Identifies and changes scope of PM or PDM (based on activity results) and SWO.

• Maintains the CMMS while managing and tracking work orders, backlog, and spare parts and creates a machine history of plant equipment and reallocates resources as required.

• Coordinates with Site Maintenance Manager and Operations to schedule workforce and resources for workforce and cost optimization.

• Develops a system of planned job packages for recurring tasks.

• Identifies, secures, and preplaces all parts and materials required to complete the work by providing stores with a Bill of Material for the work orders and kit of parts for maximum efficiency.

• Creates a critical spares list and procures or identifies sources for procurement to reduce lead times.

• Continuously improves, changes the job estimate, planning and scheduling process by utilizing feedback from maintenance team (PM optimization).

• Maintains accurate metrics on the performance of planning and scheduling functions and provides information for continuous improvement.

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of skilled crafts such as HVAC, Mechanics, Electrical, Pneumatics, Hydraulics, Plumbing, Pipe Fitting, Cranes, etc.

• Tracks performance metrics such as schedule compliance, PM compliance, mean time between failure, planning maintenance vs. reactive maintenance, backlog, etc.

• May be required to travel locally to other locations for support.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or demonstrated equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Two years of Facility Planning experience.

• Must be U.S. Citizen or able to work without sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in a CMMS such as Maximo, SAP, or an equivalent program.

• Preventive and/or Predictive maintenance planning experience.

• Ability to coordinate parts and assign the 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, Toyota Production Systems.

• Demonstrated understanding of an effective safety culture.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.

• Demonstrated skills in organization and time management.

Additional Information:

• This position may require a valid state driver’s license.

• This position will require the ability to obtain a security access badge at our client’s location.

• This position may require various shifts, weekends, and alternative work schedules.

• Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment background check and substance abuse test.

Physical Requirements:

• Some tasks will require repetitive wrist movement.

• Some tasks will require the ability to walk extensively throughout facilities during a workday.

• Requires ability to read and understand information contained in a variety of documents or displayed on a computer screen.

• Requires ability to use a variety of office equipment and to operate a computer keyboard to access databases, to send/receive messages and to prepare documents.

• Requires ability to attend meetings throughout the site and potentially travel to other Amentum, customer and/or vendor locations in the area, as well as some air travel to more distant locations.

• Requires the ability to communicate with others on the telephone and in one-on-one or group discussions, meetings and presentations.

• Demonstrated fluency in computer use including the full Microsoft product line.

• Requires some moving of light to medium weight materials into desks, filing cabinets and other storage locations.

• Requires the ability to interact with all clients in a professional and friendly manner despite periods of stress.

Special Requirements:

• Wear steel toe safety shoes, safety glasses, gloves, hard hats and other Personal Protective Equipment as needed.

• Cope with demands (stressors) that are associated with the job and/or the work environment so that acceptable levels of performance and overall contribution are maintained.

Compensation Details:

55-65K

The compensation range or hourly rate listed for this position is provided as a good-faith estimate of what the company intends to offer for this role at the time this posting was issued. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as job responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.

Benefits Overview:

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to support you and your priorities. Offerings include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• Paid time off and holidays

• Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)

• Educational reimbursement

• Parental leave

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Tax-saving options

• Disability and life insurance

• Pet insurance

Note: Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements. Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), or other employment contracts may include different provisions/benefits.

Original Posting:

10/02/2026 - Until Filled

Amentum anticipates this job requisition will remain open for at least three days, with a closing date no earlier than three days after the original posting. This timeline may change based on business needs.

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