Title:  RAM Engineer

About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do. We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day. That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way. Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

We are looking for a Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) Engineer to join our Rail & Transport Business Unit . Reporting to the RAM Manager, the core objective of this role is to ensure that RAM requirements, risks and issues are effectively identified, and that risk-based RAM activities are undertaken to address these issues to the satisfaction of John Holland, client and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities of the role include:
-Subject matter expertise, advice and guidance in RAM as an integral part of the John Holland engineering offering across all areas of the organisation
-Ensure effective application of RAM principles that meet client requirements, John Holland corporate management system requirements, regulatory needs and is aligned with EN50126
-Ensure appropriate planning is undertaken that aligns RAM activities and outputs with the key milestones and submissions of tenders and projects, including the development and / or review of the RAM Plan
-Be able to conduct and facilitate all RAM related-activities under the RAM Plan, including Functional Failure Analysis, FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, Reliability Block Diagrams, Lifecycle Cost Analysis techniques, driving maintainability in design, and the development of -RAM and Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) Reports.
-Provide subject matter expertise support to system safety engineering and assurance activities where required, including support to risk assessment workshops and assistance in the development of SFAIRP arguments
-Work with designers on tenders and projects to provide input into the design solutions and support with the delivery of design packages with input into the RAM aspects of the design
-Input into RAM aspects of new maintenance and operational procedures and plans, including maintenance requirements analysis techniques such as Reliability Centred Maintenance
-Lead maintenance review and analysis of operational and maintenance data for continuous improvement for John Holland’s Operations & Maintenance activities
-Participation in training needs analysis, user acceptance testing, RAM support during commissioning, requirements verification and validation, post-implementation review and identification of RAM lessons learned.

To be successful in this key role, you must have:
-Tertiary qualification in an engineering-related discipline
-Minimum 4 years’ relevant experience and proven track record in the application of RAM engineering with at least 1 years in the rail sector
-Working knowledge of RAM-related standards including EN50126.
-Experience working with RAM tools such as Reliability Workbench, Availability Workbench or similar
-Eligible for CPEng and NER

As part of the John Holland team, you help us deliver on our promise to transform lives. Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as different perspectives and ideas will deliver our long-term success. Specifically, within the REI team you will have a central home with the engineering team and ability to influence the approach to be taken across the John Holland portfolio. Career progression can be through the technical aspects of engineering corporate governance or through delivery roles on large and exciting projects.