RAMS Manager

TAKE YOUR CAREER IN A NEW DIRECTION

At Eurostar, we’re fuelling the future of rail travel – operating in five countries and sparking new opportunities for travellers. But our trains connect much more than just people and places. They’re helping us build a greener, more inclusive future for everyone. Join us and you’ll be part of a passionate team which always goes the extra mile.


An exciting opportunity awaits you as RAMS Manager in our Rolling Stock team. The RAMS Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating all aspects of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety activities across engineering workstreams for the Eurostar fleets. This is a strategic role that sits within the projects team, ensuring that systems and products meet regulatory, safety, operational and technical standards throughout their lifecycle, applying recognised RAMS and systems engineering methodologies to support decision-making and fleet performance.

This is a permanent role based at our Temple Mills depot in Leyton. Hybrid working is available, with the expectation you attend site a minimum of 3 days per week.

The close date for this role is 5pm on Tuesday, 14 April. Candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible; Eurostar reserves the right to contact candidates before close date and to close the role earlier if suitable candidates are identified.

Internal reference only: This is a grade E role, travel services 3-4.

Requirements

We’re looking for someone to:

• Lead reliability improvement initiatives with the functional engineering teams, Utilising FRACAS, RCA andreliability predictions, prioritising workstreams based on data provided by the performance data.
• Improve fleet availability by optimising maintenance cycles, spare‑parts readiness, logistics, obsolescence management and whole‑life reviews.
• Enhance maintainability by influencing design decisions, reducing MTTR, optimising maintenance regimes/VMS, and driving condition‑based and predictive maintenance techniques.
• Drive continuous improvement through LCC modelling, workflow optimisation, Lean opportunities, and innovation to reduce downtime and total life cost.
• Ensure safety by identifying hazards, leading safety assessments, producing safety cases, and supporting engineering on‑call and incident processes.
• Prepare and review RAMS documentation, safety cases and technical assurance reports, ensuring full traceability through systems engineering processes.
• Contribute to audits, design reviews, hazard logs, risk registers, FRACAS databases and safety‑related documentation.
• Ensuring a smooth transition and industrialisation from project to BAU with our production teams.
• Support business case development for senior leadership submissions.

You'll need...

• Degree in an engineering‑related discipline, with professional registration at Incorporated Engineer level or above (or working towards Chartered).
• 5–8 years’ experience in RAMS activities, rail vehicles, and maintenance workstreams.
• Advanced knowledge of RAMS engineering standards and application of recognised methodologies across the asset lifecycle.
• Strong capability in reliability analytics tools including FRACAS, FMECA, FTA, and RCA techniques.
• Proven experience in rolling stock maintenance, including maintenance plan evolution, exam balancing, RCM, hybrid/CBM strategies, LCC and reliability‑driven techniques.
• Strong soft skills including communication, analytical thinking, and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to lead RAMS activities across engineering workstreams, ensuring compliance with regulatory, safety, operational, and technical standards.

Benefits

We’re constantly working to create a bright future for our company and our colleagues. That’s why we offer a wide range of brilliant benefits, including:

• Travel benefits that can be used for both work and play including 75% off underground network from Day 1
• Competitive defined benefit pension scheme
• Free Eurostar tickets
• Discounted Eurostar tickets for friends and family
• Ongoing training and development
• Lots of other exclusive deals, discounts and perks

A whole new platform for your career - If you think you’ve got what it takes to help us make Eurostar bigger and better than ever before then we’d love to hear from you.

At Eurostar we believe in giving everyone an equal chance. We actively encourage applications from talented individuals regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief, marital status, whether you’re pregnant or on maternity leave.

Your individuality is your strength, and we want a diverse team that reflects the world we live in.