Railway RAM Lead

• Develop and implement the project RAMS strategy, plans, and methodologies in line with EN 50126/8/9 and IEC 61508 standards.
• Define RAM requirements in coordination with the client, design teams, and contractors.
• Manage RAM activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring alignment with Safety and Quality management systems.

• Define and monitor reliability and availability targets for subsystems (signaling, telecoms, rolling stock, power, track, civil works, depots).
• Perform Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD).
• Conduct reliability predictions, failure rate analysis, and availability simulations to verify compliance with targets.

• Conduct maintainability analysis and maintenance task evaluations to ensure safe, cost-effective operations.
• Review system designs for ease of inspection, repair, and replacement.
• Define preventive and corrective maintenance requirements, tools, and spare parts strategies.

• Work with the Safety Lead Engineer to ensure integration of RAMS into system design and assurance.
• Support hazard identification (HAZID) and hazard analysis activities.
• Contribute to Safety Cases and ensure ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) risk levels are achieved.

• Define RAM demonstration and validation requirements during testing and commissioning.
• Ensure system performance (RAM targets) is verified through test data, reliability growth programs, and field trials.
• Support integration of subsystems into the complete railway system, ensuring compliance with RAM objectives.

• Develop and maintain RAMS deliverables, including:

• Prepare RAMS performance reports and present findings to project leadership, clients, and regulatory bodies.

• Lead the RAM engineering team and coordinate RAM activities with design, construction, and operations teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of system reliability and continuous improvement.

• At least 8 years' experience in RAMS engineering within rail, transportation, or other safety-critical industries.
• Strong knowledge of railway systems engineering, integration, and assurance processes.
• Demonstrated expertise in EN 50126/8/9, IEC 61508, ISO 31000, and other RAMS standards.
• Proven track record of delivering RAMS programs on major rail infrastructure or rolling stock projects.
• Experience working in design & build contracts with multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Strong technical expertise in RAM analysis and tools.
• Skilled in reliability modelling, simulation, and statistical analysis.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.
• Strong leadership and ability to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams.
• Effective communicator, with confidence in reporting to clients, contractors, and regulators.
• Ability to balance engineering detail with project-level risk and assurance priorities.

• ADDRESS THE WAY - Have a big picture of different situations and reinterpret it in a perspective way
• BUILD NETWORK - Forge trust relationships, across departments, and outside the organization
• CLIENT INTIMACY - Embrace internal and external client needs, expectations, and requirements to ensure maximum satisfaction
• EARN TRUST - Take everyone's opinion into account and remain open to diversity
• MAKE EFFECTIVE DECISIONS - Structure activities according to priorities, actions, resources and constraint
• MANAGE EMOTIONS - Recognise one's and other's emotions and express and regulate one's reactions
• PIONEER CHANGE - Actively embrace change and benefit from the new circumstances
• PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Promote commitment by keeping promises as a Role Model
• THINK FORWARD - Capitalise on experiences and translate them into action plans for the future

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