Systems Engineer - RAMS

Owen Daniels; Buckingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Owen Daniels in Buckinghamshire is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to lead RAMS engineering activities within a growing manufacturing environment. You will own RAMS elements, perform FMECA and FMEA, and apply reliability and safety analyses across projects.

This hands-on role requires strong analytical skills, proactiveness, and the ability to deliver clear technical documentation, safety cases, and reports while collaborating with design teams, suppliers, and certification bodies.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering RAMS activities across the project lifecycle.
• Proven ability to produce FMECA, Design FMEA and Process FMEA.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering, safety analysis and assessment methods.
• Identify potential failure modes and assess their criticality.
• Experience producing technical reports and safety documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver RAMS activities across projects.
• Produce FMECA, Design FMEA and Process FMEA.
• Apply reliability modelling and safety analyses (RBD/FTA/ETA).
• Investigate failures and implement corrective actions with design teams.
• Prepare RAMS reports, safety cases and verification logs.

Skills

RAMS engineering

FMECA

FMEA

Reliability engineering

Hazard analysis

Safety analysis

Root cause analysis

Technical reporting

Job description

Are you an experienced Systems Engineer? My client who are a growing engineering, manufacturing company are looking for a hands-on systems engineer to come onboard and help them level up. They are looking for someone with strong analytical capability,

who is proactive and to take ownership of the RAMS element.

Systems Engineer

Permanent

Competitive salary

Monday – Thursday 8am – 4:45pm

Friday 8am – 12pm

Buckinghamshire

Job Description

• Experienced in developing and delivering RAMS engineering activities, ensuring compliance with project specifications, customer requirements and relevant industry standards throughout the project lifecycle.
• Skilled in producing and maintaining FMECA, Design FMEA, Process FMEA and other reliability documentation, alongside carrying out hazard assessments, safety analysis and risk evaluations.
• Strong knowledge of reliability engineering, including reliability predictions, allocation and modelling, as well as Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA).
• Experienced in supporting safety assurance, verification and validation activities, investigating system failures, identifying root causes and working with design teams to implement corrective and preventative actions.
• Confident in preparing RAMS reports, safety cases and technical documentation, including Safety Analysis Reports, Safety Verification Logs and Critical Item Lists, while working closely with customers, suppliers and certification bodies.

Systems Engineer

Essential Experience/Skills/Qualifications

• Hands-on experience carrying out FMECA assessments, ideally covering complete systems and subsystems.
• Good understanding of reliability engineering, safety analysis and associated assessment methods.
• Ability to identify potential failure modes, assess their severity and criticality, and understand their impact on overall system performance.
• Experienced in producing clear and accurate technical reports, engineering assessments and supporting documentation.
• Able to work independently, analyse technical issues and communicate findings effective to design and engineering teams.