# Project Engineering Manager

Project Engineering Manager Hybrid role with travel across UK site We’re looking for a Project Engineering Manager to join our high performing team in the UK & Ireland Packaging Division. As our Project Engineering Manager, you will manage the engineering and technical elements of the design, execution and commissioning of significant change programmes and continuous improvement projects across the division, ensuring the technical aspects of each project are delivered within scope, to standard, on time, in budget and within our agreed parameters. Supporting our Head of Engineering and the UK&I Senior Leadership Team you will be a key player in delivering identified projects and overseeing a project portfolio that drives significant operational improvement and increased efficiencies to current processes, in order to implement world class industry working practises. For each project in your portfolio, you will ensure a robust technical design and implementation plan that leads to accurate cost and complexity estimation. You will identify project workstreams, technical specification development, support the tendering process, supplier selection, project planning, supplier/contractor m

- **Id**: 1391520
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ds-smith-project-engineering-manager>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Solihull, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-18T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-06-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T15:54:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 150
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3882
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Manufacturing, Packaging & Labeling, Packaging Design

## Company

- **Id**: 1795137
- **Name**: DS Smith
- **Domain**: dssmith.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dssmith-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 29
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.931
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 44
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 67000
- **Max usd**: 112000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 109

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 149

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-28T11:51:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 12
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.431
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 149
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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