RAMS Engineer - Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety

Job description

Airbus Defence and Space Ltd.

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2017, it generated revenues of € 67 billion and employed a workforce of around 130,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as Europe’s number one space enterprise and the world’s second largest space business. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.

Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place. Taking pride in our work, we draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. Our diversity and teamwork culture propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

Description of the job

Do you love looking at the bigger picture? Are you looking for a role where you can work on projects to be proud of (analysing Mars and exploring the Earths surface)? Where training is not only provided but encouraged - not just 'on the job', but also certifications and qualifications? Where you can achieve your personal and professional goals whilst supporting your team mates?

Then we’d like to chat to you!

Due to organic growth and a wealth of new projects we are looking for a RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) Engineer. You will be joining a growing and evolving UK team (6-8), who are part of a larger transnational team of 50. The UK team is looking forward to moving into their new, purpose built, offices and building.

This role will best suit someone with in-depth Electronics experience from industries such as rail, oil & gas, aerospace, engineering, components, RF (Radio frequency), automotive, nuclear, medical and other similar electronics industries.

As a RAMS Engineer you will be reviewing the equipment that’s going up into space, reviewing external equipment, ensuring quality standards are met and ensuring reliability of equipment.

This role comes with occasional travel, UK / European, dependent on projects and departmental needs.

Tasks & accountabilities

RAMS ensures proper support to concept solutions during development and in-service phases.

The objective of RAMS is to support the design definition and assess that the products delivered by Airbus Defence and Space are dependable and safe as required by the legal and regulatory requirements, customers' specifications and in-house policies.

The primary objective of your goal is to analyse candidate designs of all space products developed in Stevenage such as major ESA and/or NASA science spacecraft launched to explore mars or analyse the earth surface or its atmosphere. You will also be involved in a wide range of product development such as propulsion subsystems, navigation, digital processors etc.

Main / key responsibilities of the role:
• Assessing/understandings of customer requirements.
• Performing all required Project RAM analyses (e.g. FMEA (Failure modes and effacts analysis / Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Statistical Reliability/Availability Analysis etc.)
• Performing all required Project Safety activities such as safety analysis, production of safety submission documents
• Performing trade-offs and redundancy optimization studies.
• Working in close collaboration with design engineers (e.g. HW, SW and Operations), technical architects, external customers and suppliers to achieve mission objectives.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Required skills

• In-depth Statistics and Reliability Mathematics experience and background
• RAMS engineering processes methods and tools: FMEA, Fault tree, reliability analysis
• System and equipment engineering related technical disciplines (Electronics, Electrical, Thermal, Mechanical, Operations and Software), with a specific focus on electronics and system engineering.
• Excel with VBA macro development.
• Knowledge of relevant standards (dependability and safety standards).

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We value the strength that diverse perspectives bring to our business, so if you require any reasonable adjustments to fully participate in the recruitment process please discuss this with the recruiter who contacts you

The successful candidate will need to be eligible to gain UK SC Security Clearance to undertake the role.