Lead RAMS Engineer - WOBS

About the role

Hitachi Rail GTS Egypt is looking for a Lead RAMS Engineer for its WOBS (Wayside & onboard operation solutions) business unit in Cairo, working on mainline railway projects. The role is full-time and hybrid, within quality management, and covers reliability, availability and safety assessment, RAM demonstration and reporting, and FRACAS management.

Key responsibilities

• Support the review of project designs, specifications and technical changes to ensure compliance with RAMS requirements.
• Prepare and maintain RAM and safety documentation, including RBDs, FMEA/FMECA, RAM Reports and Demonstration Reports.
• Monitor RAM performance by collecting data and analysing failures, downtime, maintenance records, MTBF, MTTR and availability indicators.
• Review installation, testing and commissioning, configuration changes, test procedures, results, migration, trial operation and site acceptance documents from a RAMS perspective.
• Take part in site surveys, inspections, audits and investigations to identify RAMS-related issues, hazards and installation deviations.
• Prepare physical implementation reports (PISAR) and safety audit reports (SAUR) for each dependency.
• Prepare periodic RAMS status reports, escalate significant safety concerns and recurring failures to the RAMS Manager, and prepare field checklists for the deployment team.
• Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement of RAMS processes.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science, systems engineering or an equivalent technical discipline.
• Minimum 4-5 years of experience in railway signalling, train control systems, RAMS engineering or other safety-critical fields, with hands-on RAM activity.
• Experience in railway RAMS, including reliability, availability and safety assessments, RAM demonstration and reporting, FRACAS management, root-cause investigation and hazard/risk mitigation.
• Familiarity with the system safety lifecycle and with managing safety documentation such as Hazard Logs, Safety Cases and requirements traceability across Engineering, Commissioning and Maintenance teams.
• Good written and spoken English, able to prepare technical reports and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint for RAM calculations, data analysis and reporting.
• Preferred: B.Sc./M.Sc. in Electrical or Electronics Engineering, experience with relay-based, computer-based and/or solid-state interlocking EIS signaling, and familiarity with CENELEC, IEC, IEEE and MIL safety standards.