Rams (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability

A vacancy for a **RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) Engineer **has arisen within Airbus Defence & Space in Getafe (Madrid).

You will join the RAMS department, which mission is to ensure that Airbus products are developed, designed, produced and supported according to the state-of-art and to the relevant dependability and safety standards.

RAMS Engineering is a key activity supporting all projects. The RAMS Engineer is integrated in the projects teams and is involved in all design definition to warranty the compliance to RAMS requirements.

The RAMS aspects may cover System designs at the highest level down to equipment designs at the lowest level.

This position will require a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognized authorities.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

As part of the RAMS Engineering Department, you will be expected to carry out RAMS activities in support to the Project System teams.

The Reliability and Safety aspects are the principal, but not the sole activities, and you will have particular involvement in the following:

- Preliminary Risks Analysis which implies a deep understanding of the System of System functions, design and operations,
- Interface with equipment suppliers: define RAMS specifications at equipment level and follow the relevant design development to check the compliance to the defined requirements.
- Supporting the updating of in-house Plans and procedures related to RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety).
- Performing trade-offs and RAMS optimisation studies.

More specifically, you will be required to perform tasks such as:

- Functional analysis
- Risk analysis
- Reliability, availability and maintainability analyses
- FMECA, HSIA, Fault Tree analyses
- Safety assessment/hazard analysis
- The production of Reliability and Safety Critical Item list
- Support the monitoring and control of equipment or subsystems subcontractors for RAMS aspects

You will be also expected to:

- Participate in ongoing implementation of trans-national harmonisation of RAMS software tools, methods & processes.
- Participate in R&D activities.
- Participate in proposal bids.
- Manage their own time and budgets in accordance with project and department requirements.

The Reliability Engineering Group is involved in the complete lifecycle of RAMS activities associated with the product and its constituent parts.

These range from requirements capture, support to system engineering, design optimisation, and the production of the necessary analyses to meet Customer requirements.

This role will involve frequent travel for business in Europe to Airbus or Suppliers’ premises for short period, and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

**SKILLS**
- Educated to Engineering degree level (or equivalent).
- RAMS engineering processes methods and tools.
- Engineering related technical disciplines (Electronics, Electrical, Thermal, Mechanical, Operations, Software), with a specific focus on electronics and system engineering.
- Excel, Excel macro (VBA).
- Working knowledge of reliability software tools such as Relex would be an asset.
- Standards: MIL-HDBK-217F+N2, FIDES, ECSS dependability and safety standards.
- Good communication & presentation skills (interface with many internal customers/stakeholders, external customers, suppliers, ).
- Effective at working in a multi-disciplinary team (Project Engineering Teams).
- Able to work in coordination with other RAMS team members in transnational.
- Results oriented, strives for team & individual goals, autonomous, proactive approach, openness and flexibility, good team spirit.
- Negotiation level of English and Spanish.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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.

**Company**:
Airbus Defence and Space SAU

**Contract Type**:
Permanent Contract / CDI / Unbefristet / Contrato indefinido

**Experience Level**:
Professional / Expérimenté(e) / Professionell / Profesional

**Job Family**:
Qualification & Operability

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.