Intern - RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety)

About the role

Hitachi Rail is looking for an enthusiastic, self‑motivated Intern – RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) for Summer, 2027. The internship opportunity will provide exposure to Safety Engineering. The position is based in Pittsburgh, PA. At Hitachi Rail, we’re creating a legacy that spans the globe — and we want YOU to be part of it.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the organization, scheduling, implementation and monitoring of project RAMS and V&V activities, supporting the identification of competencies required to perform such activities, requesting adequate RAMS staffing to the relevant functional managers.
• Assist the project RAMS team for the achievement of project safety requirements.
• Contribute to workload management with periodic workload updates and analysis of deviations, and communicate the relevant information to the PM.
• Contribute to critical path management and alignment of RAMS schedule with project master schedule to avoid unplanned interruption of activities in the RAMS stream, and communicate the relevant information to the PM.
• Engage in proactive risk management for early detection of cost, schedule, technical and resource issues and propose recovery plans, communicating the relevant information to the PM.
• Assist with the delivery of RAMS documentation on the project.
• Assist with schedule and cost constraints to relevant Product, Signaling and System RAMS Engineers.

Requirements

• Strong relevant technical skills
• Attention to detail and ability to multi‑task
• Excellent verbal and written