RAMS Specialist, Infrastructure Engineer

RAMS Specialist, Kiewit Infrastructure Engineer

Requisition : 180818

Job Level: Mid Level

Home District/Group: Kiewit Infrastructure Engineers

Market: Transportation

Employment Type: Full Time

Are you passionate about ensuring the highest standards of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS)? We are looking for a dedicated specialist to join our innovative Systems Assurance Team. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our Systems Assurance Director, Systems Integration Leads, and the broader Integrative Engineering and Technology Solutions (IETS) Team. Together, you'll drive the successful delivery of a growing portfolio of cutting‑edge infrastructure projects.

This position offers a unique chance to enhance your personal skills, particularly in expanding your RAMS and security expertise within an Infrastructure Engineering team. You’ll have the opportunity to interface and present with industry professionals, gaining valuable exposure. As part of a multi‑disciplinary team, you’ll be directly mentored by field experts, immersing you in a wide range of technical aspects including Operations & Maintenance, Power Systems, Highway and Traffic Control Systems, Transportation Technologies, and Civil Infrastructure/Building Systems.

2025 ENR National Contractor Rankings #1 for Transportation and #3 Top 100 design build firms

Kiewit Infrastructure Engineering seamlessly transitions solutions from design to construction through the collaborative efforts of Design Engineering, Design Management, Proposals, Estimating, and Integrated Project Controls. Our construction‑focused engineering approach involves a multidisciplinary team working together to maximize value for clients by improving schedules, controlling costs, and minimizing risk on infrastructure projects. This integrated strategy emphasizes collaboration and constructability throughout the project lifecycle, enabling us to identify and implement quality solutions with a strong safety focus.

This position is based out of our Lone Tree, Colorado location, with flexibility for travel to and from the U.S. and Canada.

The successful candidate will apply RAMS processes, and appropriate methods and techniques within projects according to client requirements; applicable Rules, Regulations, and Standards; support the compliance of RAMS processes; gathering and/or establishing RAMS requirements for designs and supporting interface management activities; perform design verifications / studies to confirm RAMS requirements conformance.

• Reviewing and understanding contractual performance RAMS and security requirements.
• Performing reliability prediction modelling of infrastructure and interfacing systems and apportioning RAMS requirements to lower subsystem levels accordingly through the application of various techniques, such as Reliability Block Diagram and Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis.
• Performing independent «peer review» reliability calculations and maintenance calculations to verify product design.
• Defining maintenance LRU strategy to ensure design reliability and optimize maintenance costs.
• Reviewing suppliers' RAMS documentation and addressing non‑compliances with the support of the project team.
• Developing RAMS demonstration plans, and FRACAS plans and procedures in cooperation with Project Management and the field teams.
• Ensure that Systems Assurance/RAMS processes are being followed throughout the project lifecycle by all involved stakeholders.
• Perform various analyses as described in the EN50126 V‑Cycle model, Canadian Method of Risk Evaluation and Assessment or as aligned to MIL‑STD‑882.
• Developing, reviewing or otherwise supporting Threat and Vulnerability Assessment process. Assisting to derive project security requirements that mitigate vulnerabilities through the design development process and contributing to the authorship of Security Related deliverables according to program needs.
• Developing, reviewing or otherwise supporting the maturation of a project Integrated Hazard Log. Assisting to derive project safety requirements that mitigate hazards…