# Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineer DS Smith - Burscough | Full-time | 40 hours per week As our Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in improving the reliability, availability and performance of our manufacturing assets. You will manage assets throughout their lifecycle, developing effective preventative and predictive maintenance strategies while using data and engineering insight to identify and eliminate recurring failures. Working closely with Engineering and Operations, you will help maximise equipment availability, reduce downtime, improve safety and quality, and deliver sustainable improvements across the site. What you’ll be responsible for: Manage the asset care programme across the full equipment lifecycle, including preventative, predictive, corrective and breakdown maintenance, ensuring strategies are aligned to equipment criticality and business priorities. Develop and continuously improve preventative and predictive maintenance strategies using OEM recommendations, RCM principles, FMEA/FMECA, PM Optimisation and condition-based monitoring. Analyse maintenance and performance data to identify equipment “bad actors”, prioritise opportunities and improve asset availability, r

- **Id**: 1366877
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ds-smith-reliability-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Burscough, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-23T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T15:54:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 52
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3429
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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**: 41000
- **Max usd**: 87000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 875

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 52

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-28T02:34:29Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.508
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 52
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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