As we continue to build out our resume database and job postings for reliability engineering and predictive maintnance jobs, one of the things that strikes us as interesting is the wide variety of job titles in the industry, or specifically, the lack of standardization across companies.

As an example, Northrup Grunman has postings for a Sr. Reliability Engineer 4, a Reliability Engineer T3/T4 and a Reliability Engineer 5.  Several other companies, such as Rohm and Haas, Flir Systems and General Mills have general Reliability Engineer titles.

On the Predictive Maintenance job title listings, we’ve seen a variety of titles, including a Predictive Maintenance Vibration Analyst, a Maintenance Reliability Technician, and a Vibration Test Engineer.

One of the most frustrating elements of a reliability engineer or predictive maintenance professionals job search is determining whether or not a job is a right fit.  With all of these various titles, it becomes very time consuming as you need to read through each and every posting to see if its a fit.  With NextUp Careers matching system, you will know how well a job opportunity fits you just by uploading your resume into our system.  No longer will confusion reign with company specific job titles!