Rail RAMS Engineer | Reliability & Safety Architect

Woojin IS America, Inc; Carson (CA); Vor Ort; USD 110.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Woojin IS America, Inc. seeks an experienced RAMS Engineer to support railway vehicle refurbishment, modernization, and retrofit programs, applying RAMS principles to ensure refurbished rail vehicles meet customer, safety, reliability and performance requirements.

The role collaborates with engineering, quality, manufacturing, project management, testing and maintenance teams to identify and mitigate system risks, analyze failures, support verification and validation activities, and maintain

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of RAMS, reliability, systems engineering, safety engineering, or related field.
• Experience applying RAMS methodologies to railway, rolling stock, transportation, industrial, aerospace, automotive, or other safety-critical systems.
• Demonstrated experience with FMEA/FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, Hazard Analysis, Risk Assessment, and Root Cause Analysis.
• Understanding of MTBF, MTTR, failure rates, availability, and reliability growth.
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, schematics, test reports, and technical documentation.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Aufgaben

• Develop and maintain RAMS plans, analyses, reports, and documentation for rail vehicle refurbishment and modernization projects.
• Review customer and contractual RAMS requirements and translate them into engineering and project requirements.
• Perform RAMS analyses for rail vehicle systems, subsystems, and components.
• Conduct and maintain FMEA/FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Hazard Analysis, Risk Assessments, and other RAMS-related analyses.
• Identify critical failure modes, safety hazards, single-point failures, and system-level risks.
• Develop mitigation and corrective actions and monitor their implementation through the project lifecycle.
• Support the development and maintenance of hazard logs, risk registers, failure reporting, and corrective action documentation.
• Analyze field failures, test failures, warranty issues, maintenance records, and operational data to identify reliability trends.
• Perform and support root cause analysis and develop recommendations for corrective and preventive actions.
• Establish and monitor RAMS performance indicators, including reliability, availability, failure rates, downtime, and maintainability metrics.
• Support reliability prediction, MTBF/MTTR analysis, maintainability assessments, and life-cycle reliability evaluations.
• Work with Design Engineering to evaluate proposed modifications and their impact on system reliability, safety, maintainability, and performance.
• Review engineering changes, replacement components, upgraded systems, and retrofit designs for RAMS implications.
• Support verification and validation (V&V), qualification testing, functional testing, environmental testing, and vehicle-level testing.
• Review test plans and test results to ensure RAMS requirements are adequately verified.
• Support investigation and resolution of failures identified during vehicle refurbishment, testing, commissioning, and field operation.
• Work with Quality and Manufacturing teams to identify process-related risks affecting vehicle reliability and safety.
• Collaborate with suppliers and subcontractors regarding component reliability, failure modes, safety requirements, and corrective actions.
• Support customer meetings, technical reviews, design reviews, and RAMS-related presentations.
• Prepare clear and accurate engineering reports and documentation for customers, internal management, and project teams.
• Ensure RAMS activities and documentation are completed in accordance with applicable railway standards, customer requirements, project specifications, and company procedures.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to improve the reliability, safety, maintainability, and availability of refurbished rail vehicles.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Kenntnisse

RAMS principles

Reliability engineering

Systems engineering

Mechanical engineering

Electrical engineering

Transportation engineering

FMEA/FMECA

Fault Tree Analysis

Hazard analysis

Root cause analysis

MTBF/MTTR

Data analysis

Technical writing

Microsoft Office

Ausbildung

Reliability Engineering

Systems Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Transportation Engineering

Tools

FMEA/FMECA

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Hazard Analysis

Risk Assessment

Root Cause Analysis

Weibull analysis

Reliability prediction

Life-cycle analysis

Statistical reliability methods

Jobbeschreibung

Woojin IS America, Inc. seeks an experienced RAMS Engineer to support railway vehicle refurbishment, modernization, and retrofit programs, applying RAMS principles to ensure refurbished rail vehicles meet customer, safety, reliability and performance requirements.

The role collaborates with engineering, quality, manufacturing, project management, testing and maintenance teams to identify and mitigate system risks, analyze failures, support verification and validation activities, and maintain