Facility Analyst
About The Position
The Facility Analyst drives effective maintenance strategies, optimizes vendor performance, and controls facility-related spending across retail locations. The role provides analytical insight and operational guidance to help ensure maintenance programs align with industry standards and Lowe’s benchmarks. It oversees vendor execution and work order management for reactive repairs and planned maintenance, along with related processes including invoicing, budget tracking, vendor selection, asset management, and lifecycle planning for approximately 1,761 retail locations. This fully remote position supports preventive maintenance and repair activities, capital improvements, asset replacement, equipment lifecycle and capital planning, and strategic pilots. The analyst uses facility, work order, asset, financial, and vendor data to develop maintenance plans and spending strategies, troubleshoot facility issues, evaluate vendor performance, and recommend data-driven actions and improvements.
Requirements
- Associate degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Five years of relevant experience.
- Two years of experience in Facilities Management, Asset Management, Retail Operations, or a related field.
- Experience managing or supporting multi-site retail or commercial facilities.
- Strong analytical and vendor management skills, including experience reviewing and interpreting operational, financial, maintenance, or asset data.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including lookup functions, pivot tables, data validation, reconciliation, and analysis of large data sets.
- Experience developing analytical models, forecasts, reports, or data-driven business recommendations.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Facilities Management, Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Ensure resources are in place to execute preventive maintenance and repair activities across retail locations; support capital improvement and asset replacement projects.
- Analyze and develop facility maintenance plans and spending strategies using facility assessment, work order, asset, financial, and vendor data to maximize return on invested capital.
- Evaluate facility issues, identify root causes, and determine the best course of action for resolution.
- Provide advanced troubleshooting and analytical support for vendors performing day-to-day repair and maintenance work.
- Conduct root cause analysis to identify trends and drive improvements aligned with enterprise benchmarks and best practices.
- Monitor vendor performance against contractual KPIs and lead corrective actions as needed.
- Coordinate with vendors, store operations, asset protection, and sourcing to ensure timely and effective completion of repair activities and support equipment and facility strategies.
- Support equipment lifecycle, capital planning, and strategic pilots through analysis of asset utilization, maintenance, cost, and performance data.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
