Production Team Leader

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:

As the Production Team Leader you are a key member of the Production team, reporting to the Shift Manager. You will contribute to the success of Ball by being on line support for production members in fault finding efficiency losses/waste or quality issues, and advicing and guiding to the right resolution whilst training team members with basic fault finding skills such as fishbone/5y. 

Key responsibilities include:

•    To ensure environmental, health and safety working practices are followed at all times. 

•    To ensure that quality standards including BRC are met and remedial action taken where necessary. 

•    To support the shift manager and colleagues to achieve high motivation and productivity through consistent positive leadership.

•    To ensure efficiency (OEE) and spoilage (MOD) targets are met. 

•    To ensure efficient material usage in order to minimise costs, and support areas of high waste to reduce wasted product.

•    To support process improvement ideas within the manufacturing process and form teams to work in confuction on improvement projects 

•    To mobilise and deploy production and other staff in the event of breakdowns, quality issues and other emergencies, including hands-on attendance to breakdowns where necessary. 

•    To support the shift manager in identifying  performance and development of production staff, including identifying training needs, coaching and promoting teamwork.  

•    To provide absence cover for the shift manager when required.

•    To participate in and support the Management team and colleagues in Continuous Improvements projects.

Experience and skills required:

•    3 years experience in a similar role

•    5s/problem solving tools such as fishbone  

•    Six sigma

•    Microsoft Office especially Excel

This role will be working a rotating Shift Pattern of 12 hour shifts (4 weeks on days 6am - 6pm - 4 weeks on nights 6pm - 6am)

Week 1 work days are  Monday / Tuesday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday

Week 2 work days are Wednesday / Thursday

Starting Salary £36k - £38k plus 22.5% Shift premium depending on experience

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.