About the Role
Hitachi Rail is seeking an experienced RAMS professional to join as a Principal RAMS & System Assurance Manager. This leadership position will drive RAMS Assurance activities across UK rail projects, ensuring solutions are safe, reliable, and compliant throughout the project lifecycle, while leading a team of RAMS and Assurance engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and maintenance of Safety Cases, RAMS Management Plans, RAMS analyses and Assurance approvals to support successful project delivery.
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, customer requirements and industry standards.
- Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring to RAMS and Assurance professionals.
- Contribute to the strategic development of RAMS across Hitachi Rail in the UK.
- Support recruitment, succession planning and capability development within the function.
- Support bid activities by defining RAMS strategies, resource requirements and delivery plans.
- Build strong relationships with customers, industry partners and regulatory stakeholders.
- Represent Hitachi Rail at customer meetings and industry forums where required.
Requirements
- Significant experience in Technical Safety and Systems Assurance within the rail sector or another safety-critical industry.
- Proven experience managing technical teams and leading multidisciplinary stakeholders.
- Experience with UK mainline signalling, control, communications or information systems.
- Experience leading railway Interoperable projects, especially CCS.
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement capability.
- Commercial awareness and customer focus.
- Analytical approach to problem solving and decision making.
- Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all levels of an organisation.
- Self-motivated, adaptable and able to manage competing priorities.
Skills
- RAMS Assurance
- Safety Cases
- RAMS Management Plans
- RAMS analyses
- Assurance approvals
- Technical Safety
- Systems Assurance
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Leadership
- People Management
- Communication
- Commercial Awareness
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Collaboration
Location
- London, London, United Kingdom
Work Type
- Full time
- No
Experience Level
- Principal
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
- Annual performance related bonus
Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Pension scheme with contributions up to 9%
- Private medical insurance
- Personal Accident insurance
- Group Income Protection
- Group Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible plan with additional perks
About the Company
- A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into.
Equal Opportunity
- At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. 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.
