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Career Description

As you can imagine, the Air Force must maintain tens of thousands of pieces of equipment ranging from bombers to pickup trucks. As a Maintenance Management Analysis specialist, your job will be to make sure we're as efficient with time and money as possible. By analyzing man-hours, costs and other data, you'll determine efficiency and report up the chain of command if things start to slip or if you see where improvements can be made. Every penny counts, and you'll help make sure we get the most from every one of them.

Career Tasks

• Monitor maintenance performance data systems for compliance with established procedures
• Collect and maintain maintenance performance data for use in analysis reports, studies and problem identification
• Assemble information by extracting and tabulating maintenance data in logical presentation sequence, using computerized and manual methods
• Control and operate the Maintenance Management Information and Control System (MMICS), a computerized data system that enables you to keep maintenance managers informed as to what maintenance is required, the current status of the assigned equipment (aircraft, missiles, support equipment, etc.) and what areas of the automated file require attention
• Use statistical techniques; measure significance of correlations and trend analyses; and compare the maintenance performance to plans, schedules, and workload estimates
• Identify and assist in analysis and study of materiel deficiencies, man-hours cost and trends and deviations from standards
• Prepare oral and written presentations to keep managers informed of unit progress

Relevant Interests & Skills

• Computer Science
• Business Operations
• Maintenance and Repair
• English and Journalism

Training

After eight-and-a-half weeks of Basic Military Training, every Airman goes to technical training to learn their career. Here's the basic information about Maintenance Management Analysis technical training:

School location: Sheppard AFB [TX]

Length of course: 56 days

College degree earned: Maintenance Production Management

College credits earned: 12