Production Manager

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: 

To plan, direct and manage the manufacturing process, providing the focus and leadership which will build and develop an effective team, which will maintain maximum safety, environmental, quality and production standards

Key responsibilities include: 

•    Develop and realize daily production plans.

•    Responsible for the personnel distribution in order to ensure the process integrity.

•    Direct and coordinate the activities of the production function.  

•    Contribute to the company progress and team work improvement. 

•    Responsibility for the control of timely delivery of all the materials and spare parts providing continuous operation of the production.

•    Have knowledge about and apply principals of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001.

•    Take part in development and maintenance of the integrated management system.

•    Support and develop relations with customers, taking part in negotiations and regular meetings.

•    Establish and implement improvements for safety, quality, and cost reduction programs. 

•    Estimate and prepare propositions for production budget. 

•    Establish and maintain safe and healthful working conditions while enforcing safety rules and regulations. Responsibility for creation, control and following up safety system.   

•    Manage and direct experimental and perspective production activities.

•    Establish and maintain an employee relations climate of trust and confidence that will discourage third party interference.

•    Initiates, reviews, masters, and follows all standard operating procedures (SOPs) and working instructions for the area of responsibility.  

•    Establish and maintain effective work relationships within the department, the division, the group, the company and the community. 

•    Maintain the professional competence, ethical integrity, knowledge and skills necessary for the satisfactory performance of all assigned responsibilities. 

•    Maintain awareness and complies with hazardous waste management and other environmental management requirements in the workplace by attending scheduled training sessions.

•    Recognize waste streams and minimizes waste generation, through prudent use of materials, proper disposal and segregation. Understands and practices proper accumulation and storage requirements for wastes. 

•    Understand and respond effectively to fire-preventive directions during emergencies by being familiar with emergency procedures, equipment, and systems, as necessary.  Implements contingency plan to the level required by the position.

What are we looking for? 

•    Higher technical education

•    LSS Black Belt

•    Good understanding of modern lean manufacture technique - SMED, Kaizen 5S, Kanban, Structured Problem Solving, TPM/OEE, SPC, 6 Sigma etc.

•    Working knowledge of production principles, practices, nomenclature, and procedures

•    Knowledge of generally accepted managerial practices and procedures

•    Working knowledge of the following areas: Business principles, legal practices, customer needs and expectations, and Operations quality standards

•    Fluent in both written and spoken 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.