R&D Technician

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium 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 16,000 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.

Position overview:

You will support the R&D Director during the different steps of the projects by performing the necessary lab tests, products assessments and technical drawings.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Design the new aerosols cans or bottles + drawing & slugs data base management.
• Perform the necessary tests to validate the performances of the aerosols or bottles (pressure resistance, dimensions, axial load resistance, coating integrity).
• Write the reports to be shared with the customers based on the info they need to qualify the cans (mechanical data, porosity..).
• Analyse the problems occured during the line trials and propose solutions to solve the issues.
• Find external labs or suppliers to support the R&D team during a development if the skills do not exist within Ball (internet, visit fairs, contact Universities....).
• Support the industrialization team during line trials if needed by bringing product expertize, customer expectations.
• Maintain the measurement and analyses devices in the Bellegarde R&D lab in good working conditions (has to be autonomous on this part).

What are we looking for? 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanics
• Experience doing mechanical design with Solidworks 
• Experience doing products innovation or products industrialization 
• Managing tests in a lab or in line
• Ability to manage relatioships with suppliers or external labs
• Demonstrated skill in Projects management 
• Working knowledge of 3D CAD drawing (Solidworks), design mechanical parts, metal packaging ideally aluminium
• Fluent in French and English 

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions 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.