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About the Role

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Senior RAMS Manager to oversee Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Technical Safety (RAMS) for UK Projects, Products, and Services. This role requires effective leadership to meet legal, customer, and contractual obligations, providing RAMS support across multiple projects and the Safety Function.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall management and leadership of RAMS.
• Manage safety-related interfaces between business, customer, stakeholders, and statutory bodies.
• Deliver RAMS on projects as necessary.
• Manage the development and maintenance of safety and system assurance plans, processes, RAMS analyses, and safety cases.
• Ensure company statutory and internal requirements are met and standards are followed.
• Provide management and leadership for Safety, RAM, and System Assurance deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
• Interface with the client to capture and define system and safety requirements, and manage verification, validation, and safety demonstrations.
• Coordinate and support RAMS input to bids, including safety management organization, roles, responsibilities, engineering, assurance, and costs.
• Develop remits and manage contracts with independent bodies.
• Prepare and supervise on-site testing and commissioning of assets, equipment, and systems in a railway environment.
• Support and participate in Safety reviews and audits.
• Provide support to the Safety Authority for Incident reporting and response, including mitigation, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned.
• Support the RAMS Head of Function for strategic, communication, and training initiatives.
• Support employee development within the team.
• Set functional and development objectives for individuals in collaboration with the Head of Function.
• Manage and facilitate formal performance measures.
• Support the recruitment process by reviewing CVs and participating in interviews.
• Manage demand from bids and projects to ensure appropriate skills and capability within the team.
• Verify that processes are in place and followed to ensure staff have the right competencies.

Requirements

• Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) and Technical Safety techniques, methods, and tools.
• Specialist knowledge and experience of railway RAMS standards (e.g., EN50126, EN50716, EN50129, European Railway Regulation for Safety and Interoperability).
• Ability to undertake independent investigations.
• Experience in managing teams.
• Technical Safety and RAM engineering background.
• Knowledge and experience of railway systems and assets, particularly Mainline UK railway signalling, control, and information systems.
• Demonstrable track record in delivering safety solutions through safety approvals and into operation.
• Experience in RAMS delivery activities within the rail or construction industry.
• Experience in System Assurance.
• Experience in developing Safety Cases for complex and safety-critical systems and gathering required evidence/facts.
• Strong leadership capability.
• Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate at all levels.
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholders, build and sustain strong working relationships.
• An analytical and customer-focused approach.
• Ability to prioritize and manage workload.

Skills

• Reliability
• Availability
• Maintainability
• Technical Safety
• RAMS
• System Assurance
• Safety Case development
• Stakeholder Management
• Leadership
• Team Management
• Project Management
• Risk Management
• Railway Standards
• Incident Investigation
• Bid Support

Location

• London, London, United Kingdom

Work Type

• Full time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• Market leading training, development and experiences.
• Mentorship and coaching opportunities.
• Opportunities for internal promotion.
• Flexibility in working patterns (part-time hours, job sharing, home working, flexible start/finish times).

About the Company

• A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy.
• Operations in every corner of the world, working at the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology.
• Multi-cultural strength of a global organisation.
• Sustainable and innovative ways of working to bring people together.
• Hitachi brings together the world’s greatest minds to help breathe life into new possibilities – and drive innovation for a better future.
• Pioneering spirit, imaginative ideas, and fearlessness in tackling the world’s biggest challenges.
• Passion for finding new solutions and working with brilliant colleagues.
• Dedication to a huge range of exciting projects, contributing to the Hitachi vision globally.
• Engineering new sustainability solutions, creating infrastructure for smart cities.
• Dynamic, collaborative, and creative environments where ideas are welcome and new discoveries are waiting.
• Support for employees in career aspirations and promotion of freedom to explore new horizons.

Equal Opportunity

• We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view.
• It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.