Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!
Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 21,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.
Primary Purpose of this Position:
Leveraging expert technical leadership, drive standardization of our Back End manufacturing process across the global network of can plants, while deploying change control procedures and continuous improvement methodologies.
What will you be responsible for?
Responsible for establishing global standards for back end processes (decorator, pin oven, spray machines, IBO, necker and palletizer) including equipment specifications, SOPs, maintenance standards, operating parameters, troubleshooting methodologies, and defect catalogues.
Responsible for maintaining global best practices around back end equipment operation.
Act as technical lead cross-functionally to establish global quality parameters, skills matrices and training plans.
Work closely with Regional Process leads to support best practice discovery, deployment and tracking.
Support global talent development across regional process teams, establishing a roadmap for technical resource development globally.
Lead collaboration of Regional Process leads on problem solving issues of quality, efficiency, spoilage and maintenance.
Work with Global Equipment Wellness teams on standard overhaul activity, critical measurements, frequency and budgets for Back End process equipment.
Work with Innovation on transition of relevant technology into Operations, including development of new specifications, operating parameters and necessary standards to deploy globally.
Support Global Spare Parts with necessary recommended spares lists.
Work with procurement to establish total cost of ownership across competitive supplier equipment.
What are we looking for?
Completed Bachelor's Degree in Engineering preferred;
Advanced/Fluent English
Experience in Can Manufacturing, Back End Subject Matter Expert
Experience in Lean Manufacturing
Experience management (people or project)
Back End Experience: Back End equipment operation, training, problem solving, continuous improvement, overhauling.
Influencing, Motivating, and Developing technical teams while promoting teamwork and collaboration across diverse global stakeholders
Utilizing data to drive decision making.
Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and OEM's
Document development, document management systems, and change control
Knowledge of:
Lean Manufacturing, TPM, DMAIC and Kaizen
Microsoft 365 suite
Machinery maintenance, mechanical systems, and preventive maintenance strategies, utilizing technical documentation effectively
Project Management: resource allocation, budgeting, and financial analysis, with experience managing budgets.
Ability to translate technical verbiage into logically structured, clear, concise language
Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.
When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 21,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.
Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.
Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems. No agencies please.
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