Safety & Reliability Engineer — Defence A&D RAMS

AMS Ltd; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

AMS Ltd seeks a Safety & Reliability Engineer on a 12-month contract based in Bristol, focusing on defence aerospace and naval propulsion systems. You will assess, predict and improve safety, reliability and maintainability across complex gas turbine applications.

You will perform FMECA, FHA, FTA and QRA analyses, investigate in-service failures and apply statistical methods to quantify risk. A strong background in RAMS and experience with failure investigations is essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a Safety & Reliability Engineer position or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Experience on developing new FMECA's and updating exiting packages.
• Strong understanding of FMECA, FMEA, Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and risk assessment methodologies.
• Good mathematical and statistical analysis skills.
• Experience investigating failures and determining their impact on system performance and operational capability.
• An engineering approach to problem-solving with the ability to evaluate incomplete or ambiguous information.
• Understanding of gas turbine principles and associated systems would be highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Perform Safety, Reliability, Maintainability and Predictability assessments across defence and naval programmes.
• Conduct and create Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), including both new assessments and updates to historical documentation.
• Carry out Hazard Analysis, Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRA) and other safety engineering activities.
• Investigate in-service failures and determine root causes, failure mechanisms and operational impacts.
• Analyse component-by-component failure behaviour to understand system-level consequences.
• Apply statistical techniques and mathematical modelling to quantify uncertainty, failure rates and risk exposure.
• Support reliability growth activities and reliability predictions for new and existing products.

Skills

Safety Engineering

Reliability Engineering

RAMS

FMECA

FHA

FTA

QRA

Risk Assessment

Statistical Analysis

Failure Investigation

Job description

AMS Ltd seeks a Safety & Reliability Engineer on a 12-month contract based in Bristol, focusing on defence aerospace and naval propulsion systems. You will assess, predict and improve safety, reliability and maintainability across complex gas turbine applications.

You will perform FMECA, FHA, FTA and QRA analyses, investigate in-service failures and apply statistical methods to quantify risk. A strong background in RAMS and experience with failure investigations is essential.