Reliability Data Specialist
Allied Reliability · Lake Norden, SD · 1 wk ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
Primary Responsibilities
- Validate existing Maximo asset hierarchy against physical field conditions
- Confirm assets are identified to the appropriate maintainable and replaceable component level
- Identify missing, duplicate, incorrectly assigned, or improperly structured assets
- Validate parent/child equipment relationships
- Support hierarchy standardization efforts
- Collect and validate critical equipment attribute data including motor HP, voltage, amperage, RPM, frame size, manufacturer, model number, serial number, pump capacity/input/output data, gearbox ratios, bearing information, lubrication data, critical spare information, and additional maintainability-related data
- Utilize Allied Reliability walkdown tools in the field to capture and organize equipment photographs and nameplate data
- Perform manual verification when automated identification is insufficient
- Maintain organized and traceable field records
- Transfer collected data into SmartCBM staging environment
- Aid in formatting and standardizing asset data
- Support validation prior to loading into Maximo test and production environments
- Maintain data integrity and naming consistency
- Identify gaps impacting EMP development and maintenance execution
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 3-5 years of industrial maintenance, reliability, CMMS, or asset management experience
- Experience within manufacturing, food & beverage, industrial processing, or heavy industry environments preferred
- Working knowledge of rotating equipment and industrial assets including motors, pumps, conveyors, gearboxes, valves, process equipment, instrumentation, and CMMS
- Experience working within a CMMS/EAM platform required, IBM Maximo experience strongly preferred
- Understanding of asset hierarchy structures, equipment parent/child relationships, functional locations, asset records, equipment classifications, spare parts relationships, and data & documentation
- Strong attention to detail, ability to maintain structured and consistent data, comfort with spreadsheets, digital tools, and mobile applications, and ability to identify inconsistencies and missing information
- Field execution capability, comfortable working in active manufacturing environments, ability to perform extensive shop floor walkdowns, read nameplates, drawings, and basic technical documentation, and ability to work independently after onboarding
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting Reliability Improvement initiatives
- Exposure to Equipment Maintenance Plans (EMP), PM optimization, or RCM methodologies
- Experience with SmartCBM, APM, or digital asset management tools
- Familiarity with ISO 14224 asset taxonomy concepts
- Experience validating or building hierarchy to maintainable component level
- Experience with dairy, food processing, or continuous process manufacturing environments
- Technically curious, capable of balancing field execution with data accuracy, and able to recognize the difference between operational equipment grouping and maintainable component structure