Maintenance & Reliability Engineering Careers in Japan: What 249 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 249
- 79
- 47%
- 37%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
52
3-4 years of experience
32
5-9 years of experience
30
10+ years of experience
3
8%
12% day-to-day or above
Hazardous materials handler (危険物取扱者) 8%
Excel
38%
Equipment Maintenance
38%
PLC
35%
Production Engineering
25%
EHS / Safety
20%
Robotics
17%
Semiconductor
12%
CAD
10%
249 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
0%
7% day-to-day or above
52 postings
3–4 years
0%
6% day-to-day or above
Hazardous materials handler (危険物取扱者) 19%
Equipment Maintenance 78% (+65)
32 postings
5+ years
42%
50% day-to-day or above
EHS / Safety 36% (+36)
Project Management 27% (+24)
Excel 42% (+23)
Robotics 21% (+18)
Stakeholder Management 12% (+12)
33 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥5,700,000 · 92 postings state pay
¥4,400,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥7,000,000
Working Conditions
- 122 days
50 postings
249 postings
What Comes Next
People management
5
Employers naming each step, of 7 that name one
Who Is Hiring
54
14
14
14
11
9
8
7
All Maintenance & Reliability Engineering openings
249 postings from 79 employers, as of 2026-09-22
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Maintenance & Reliability Engineering career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Maintenance & Reliability Engineering job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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