RAMS Engineer

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.

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.

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.

• 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…