Jr Engineer - Printing

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JE - Printing

Position overview:

As the Junior Engineering - Printing, you’re a key member of the Shift Operations Team, reporting to the Shift Manager. You will contribute to the success of Ball by contributing for smooth operation and maintenance of Printers in can making line. You will have to  work safely and produce quality product in the Printing area. You will have strive hard to achieve area KPI’s through active participation and teamwork and will work actively in improvement activities, TPM, 5’s activities in the area. You will have to play key role in size changeovers / Lable changes and achieve best in class changeover time in the Printers.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Responsible of Operation of Printers. He will ensure the Printers are utilized and operated to their optimum speed and efficiency.
• Conducts Safety checks in printers within first two hours of start of shift and logs down findings and corrective actions.
• Conducts Operation / Maintenance checks in the printers and takes corrective actions on time. If any support is needed, he will discuss with area leader and completes the corrective actions. Updates machine log books, Note down the corrective action taken in the shift.
• Ensure the cans produced in Printer meet all quality specification. Does the Quality checks takes corrective actions on time for any deviation. Ensure color shades meets the quality specification / quality standard all the time.
• Maintains Printer area and Equipment in accordance with housekeeping and hygiene standard. Maintains Housekeeping during shift hours and handovers the shift with good housekeeping.
• Responsible for printing area spoilage target. Addresses the spoilage concerns (shade variation, missing colors, and registration issues etc.) and take swift action to get the abnormal condition back on track.
• Responsible for lable changes. Responsible for CCP- Mixed lables. Follows proper procedure / measures in his shift to control the CCP. Ensure lable changes are done with best in class time, and least scrap during lable changes. Ensure proper line clearance is done, all old lable cans (including scrap cans) are removed from area so that Mixed lables are not passed to customers.
• Responsible for Printer Trips. Ensure the printer trips are within limit by keeping all process parameters and conditions in specification.
• Utilize the opportunities (Standby time, lable change time or any other natural downtime) and does Corrective maintenance activity in printer as planned / requested by team leader.

Educational qualification, Experience and skills required:

Diploma in Mechanical engineering (4)/ Diploma in printing technology (4)

• 3 years’ experience in operation and maintenance in a manufacturing background (Textile / Printing) with Experience in Mechanical maintenance, troubleshooting and process set up.
• Should have experience of Gearboxes, Pumps, lubrication, replacing Motors, repair of precision machines, alignment, and adjustment and set up of machine after maintenance. Imported printing machine operation maintenance will be added advantage.
• Experience in LPG fired equipment such as boilers and ovens will be added advantage.

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 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.