RAMS Lead - Rail Systems Assurance

RAMS Lead
- Rail Systems Assurance Job Snapshot Role: RAMS Lead
- Rail Systems Assurance

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Railroad Manufacture Function:
Engineering

Experience:

Minimum 15 years Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview RAMS Lead
- Rail Systems Assurance in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Railroad Manufacture opportunity focused on reliability, availability, maintainability, safety, requirements management, quantified analysis, hazard assessment, and lifecycle assurance across complex rail infrastructure and rolling stock systems. Parsons is hiring an experienced RAMS professional to challenge contractor submissions, lead system safety activities, develop reliability and availability models, manage hazards, and provide technical assurance across design, verification, testing, operations, and maintenance.

Job Details Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Railroad Manufacture Function:
Engineering Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality:
Any Job Type: Full-time.

Role Context The RAMS Lead will provide technical leadership across the complete rail system lifecycle, ensuring reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety objectives are defined, analysed, verified, and demonstrated through appropriate engineering evidence. The position will work across infrastructure, rolling stock, systems engineering, manufacturing, testing, commissioning, operations, and maintenance. It will also act as a primary interface with contractors and engineering disciplines to ensure that RAMS requirements, quantified performance targets, hazard controls, and safety obligations remain traceable throughout project delivery.

• Lead RAMS assurance activities across complex rail infrastructure and rolling stock systems.
• Review, challenge, and monitor contractor RAMS strategies, analyses, submissions, and deliverables.
• Establish clear reporting on RAMS progress, outstanding issues, risks, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate RAMS workload across the project team and support effective allocation of technical responsibilities.
• Develop reliability requirements and quantified failure rate targets for systems and subsystems.
• Calculate equipment and component failure rates using approved technical data and relevant sources.
• Develop Reliability Block Diagrams to model system performance and identify critical reliability dependencies.
• Work with Engineering teams to agree realistic reliability targets for subsystems and vendor-supplied equipment.
• Develop system and subsystem availability models based on reliability architecture and operational requirements.
• Perform quantified availability assessments and evaluate whether proposed designs achieve required performance targets.
• Incorporate reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety requirements into vendor specifications and technical requirements.
• Review supplier and contractor evidence demonstrating achievement of RAMS performance objectives.
• Develop Maintainability Analyses and undertake supporting maintainability assessments.
• Assess maintenance concepts, repair times, equipment accessibility, redundancy, and operational recovery requirements.
• Support Through Life Cost modelling and assess the relationship between reliability, maintenance, asset performance, and lifecycle expenditure.
• Act as the principal technical contact for system safety matters within the assigned scope.
• Lead discussions on safety activities with Engineering teams, contractors, project management, and the client.
• Interpret contractual safety requirements and communicate applicable obligations to affected technical disciplines.
• Ensure required safety analyses are planned, completed, reviewed, and delivered in accordance with project schedules.
• Conduct and review Failure Mode and Effects Analyses.
• Perform and assess Fault Tree Analyses for safety-critical systems and failure scenarios.
• Lead hazard identification and risk assessment workshops.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor hazard registers and safety requirement databases.
• Track identified hazards through mitigation, verification, and formal closure.
• Coordinate system safety activities across multiple engineering disciplines and contractors.
• Verify traceability between hazards, safety requirements, design controls, testing evidence, and acceptance criteria.
• Support development and management of system requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Use requirements management tools to maintain requirements allocation, traceability, verification status, and compliance evidence.
• Support system modelling and architecture activities using appropriate engineering tools.
• Review design concepts and contribute to concept generation, evaluation, and selection.
• Perform technical assessments of system and subsystem designs from a RAMS and safety perspective.
• Support verification planning and assess whether test strategies provide adequate evidence of…