RAMS Engineer

Alstom; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Gibela invites qualified candidates for RAMS Engineer - TSSSA in Midrand to conduct RAMS analyses, prepare reports for internal and external stakeholders, and ensure reliability targets are met across train subsystems. The role reports to the Services Engineering Manager and requires collaboration with Quality, Warranty and Sourcing teams.

Experience in RAMS, reliability growth, and supplier assessments is essential; travel to sites may be required.

Qualifications

• RAMS experience in railway or complex engineering projects.
• Professional registration or eligibility with ECSA is required.
• Willingness to travel to suppliers and sites; may work outside normal hours.

Responsibilities

• Perform RAMS analyses and deliver reports for stakeholders.
• Coordinate reliability design reviews and RAMS documentation.
• Monitor supplier RAMS performance and calculate penalties when required.
• Prepare customer and executive RAMS reports and steerco materials.
• Collaborate across train subsystems to validate RAMS assignments.

Skills

RAMS analyses

Reliability engineering

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Sourcing coordination

Education

Degree or BTech in Electrical/Electro-Mechanical Engineering

Tools

FRB (Failure Review Board)

8D reports

Job description

RAMS Engineer - TSSSA

Appointments will be made in line with the company's employment equity plan. People with Disability are encouraged to apply. Gibela’s journey is intrinsically tied to a vision of socio-economic transformation, one that recognises the central role of passenger rail in propelling the South African economy forward. As we embark on this mission, we stand at the crossroads of opportunities and progress, where the revitalisation of commuter rail serves as a cornerstone for building a brighter future.

Vacancy

RAMS Engineer - TSSSA

Appointments will be made in line with the company's employment equity plan. People with Disability are encouraged to apply. Gibela’s journey is intrinsically tied to a vision of socio-economic transformation, one that recognises the central role of passenger rail in propelling the South African economy forward. As we embark on this mission, we stand at the crossroads of opportunities and progress, where the revitalisation of commuter rail serves as a cornerstone for building a brighter future.

Gibela stands as Africa’s largest train manufacturing and passenger trains maintenance company, holding steadfast to its commitment to spearheading the revival of the South African railway sector. With a transformative vision, Gibela endeavoured to catalise the shift towards commuter rail as the preferred mode of transport for urban communities.

We invite suitably qualified candidates to apply for Services RAMS Lead Engineer position under Services department. The position will report to Services Engineering Manager and is based in Midrand.

Job Purpose

To conduct Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAMS) analyses and prepare reports for internal and external stakeholders, focusing on train performance and failures to ensure consistent reliability and availability. Perform root cause analyses and assign responsibility to either internal or external stakeholders as appropriate. Apply relevant Engineering/RAMS processes and guidelines to evaluate potential suppliers, ensuring their capabilities and methodologies align with Quality, Cost, and Delivery (QCD) requirements and targets. Monitor and report on supplier performance, including Preliminary Product Approval (PPA) and Final quality reviews as requested by the Sourcing team, and calculate penalties when required. Analyse and deliver comprehensive data insights to internal teams such as Quality, Train Systems and Maintenance Engineering, Warranty, Train Design, and Train Control and to external stakeholders, including suppliers and customers.

RAMS Engineering

• Perform RAMS analyses in alignment with QCD work packages commitments to produce related RAMS deliverables that meet customer requirements.
• Coordinate and perform reliability design reviews to ensure reliability requirements are met.
• Participate in design reviews coordinated by project management office or internal stakeholders to validate compliance with reliability requirements.
• Communicate RAMS requirements to the Souring team for product specification purposes during sourcing processes including RAMS plans, documents and methodologies.
• Review and analyse documentation received from suppliers to recommend go/no go decisions.
• Extract and analyse monthly train failure data per supplier. Conduct and report on the reliability performance assessments (predictive or measure) of the product. Categorise and allocate failures and identify the required actions to achieve reliability targets.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders across various train sub systems to validate failure classification, RAMS and responsibility allocations.
• Schedule reliability discussions with suppliers and internal subject matter experts, report on failures, address RAMS non-compliance, confirm responsibility allocations and ensure suppliers acceptance.
• Prepare and distribute supplier RAMS reports to suppliers, Engineering, Quality, Warranty and Sourcing teams for follow up.
• Prepare and submit train reliability reports (Top 10 subsystems contributing failures) to Executives, Heads of departments and the Warranty team.
• Produce Steerco report highlighting the Top 3 subsystem failures, regional performance variances and key contributors to train failures.
• Produce central reports in accordance with prescribed templates.
• Prepare customer reports detailing train performance, customer specific failures, main issues, solutions and actions reflecting depot performance per site.
• Produce and submit the sourcing report on individual supplier performance.
• Perform RAMS-related Final Quality Assurance (FQA) processes during the warranty period (by supplier or subsystem), submit reports to Quality and Sourcing teams, and calculate penalties as requested.
• Address internal and external customer feedback to secure approval for RAMS deliverables within project’s scope and commitments.
• Conduct research and reliability impact studies on various sub systems to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Recommend enhancements to reliability processes, mitigation strategies and preventative measures and redesign to cost initiatives.

Quality and Risk Management

• Perform reliability growth predictions and recommend solutions to prevent future failures.
• Participate in reliability growth meetings, analyse failures registered on 8 D and the web portal and recommend solutions.
• Drive quality of base data used for reliability analysis (using FRB (failure review board) to challenge and drive improvement)
• Contribute to the maintenance plan improvements
• Contribute to risk assessments related to Engineering change
• Lead the improvement of the management of safety related defects.

Minimum Requirements

• Degree or BTech in Electrical, Electro-Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• 3 Years experience in Electrical or Electro-Mechanical Engineering preferably applied to Railway products.
• Registered or registerable as a Professional Engineer/Technologist with ECSA

Special Requirements

• Occasional travelling may be required to suppliers and other sites
• Incumbent may be required to work outside normal working hours

Closing Date

05 October 2026

Should you not hear from us in 30 days, consider your application as unsuccessful.