Systems Engineer - RAMS

Owen Daniels; England; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Job summary

Owen Daniels is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer in Buckinghamshire to lead RAMS activities across projects. You will develop RAMS plans, perform FMECA/FMEA, and carry out hazard analyses while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

The role requires proactive ownership and strong analytical skills. The successful candidate will produce RAMS reports, safety cases, and technical documentation, working with customers, suppliers, and certification bodies to drive safety and reliability

Qualifications

• Hands-on RAMS engineering across systems and subsystems.
• FMECA, FMEA, and reliability documentation experience.
• Hazard assessments and risk evaluations per standards.
• Ability to prepare and present RAMS reports and safety cases.
• Clear communication with design and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Experience in developing and delivering RAMS activities across the project lifecycle.
• Produce and maintain RAMS documentation (FMECA, FMEA, Process FMEA).
• Carry out hazard analyses, safety analysis, and risk evaluations.
• Support safety assurance, verification and validation activities.
• Prepare safety reports and documentation with customers and certification bodies.

Skills

RAMS engineering

FMECA/FMEA

Reliability engineering

Hazard analysis

FTA/ETA

Technical reporting

Independent work

Tools

RAMS tools

FMEA software

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.

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 effectively to design and engineering teams.