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Electrical Process Specialist

Company:  Ball Corporation
Location: 

Gelsenkirchen, NW, DE, 45886

Date:  8 Apr 2025
Job Category:  Engineering/ Technical
Req ID:  42183

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 be part of a team of Electrical Process Engineers. To provide Electrical Engineering support in our plants. To manage, plan and co-ordinate your individual workloads. To support where necessary specific areas of the production and  process within EMEA locations predominantly, but can be any location globally. Drive and be part of  best operating Engineering practices. Be a Competent all round Electrical Engineer with excellent PLC programming skills. Extensive travel.

 

Key responsibilities include:

•    Accountable for providing all the Ball European Can and End plants and the accountable Licensee Can plants with Electrical Engineering technical expertise, support and project management skills to enable them to achieve the Ball objectives.

•    Be up-to-date with Electrical  Engineering skills  to ensure optimum utilisation is achieved in line with Balls objectives and priorities.

•    Be competent on electrical controls associated with all our machinery.

•    Be competent and understand industrial electrical power and distribution systems.

•    Understand and be familiar with electrical motors and selection of.

•    Understand and be competent with design of electrical installations

•    Understand the wiring requirements  and regulations in at least x 1 European country.

•    Have experience of High Voltage installations, the operation of.

•    Understand all electrical related health and safety regulations.

•    Be competent and familiar  with the requirements for machinery EN 60204.

•    Have extensive experience with and good fault finding skills related to our machinery

•    Understand the requirements for risk assessments and safe working practices

•    Be familiar and understand current methods, construction and design of  PLC networks.

•    Continually develop your PLC programming skills

•    Participate with departmental knowledge sharing.

•    Participate in self-departmental technical skill sharing.

•    Be prepared to share your knowledge and help Electricians in all our manufacturing facilities 

•    Accountable for ensuring all plants are kept informed on the best practice electrical engineering.

•    Be confident and capable of arranging, controlling and dealing with Contractors.

•    Accountable for controlling your individual travel  budget to within the set targets.

•    Assist the plants to achieve 85/2 targets in all aspects of the process as required.

•    Accountable for the development and training of direct reports.

•    Accountable for ensuring visit reports are generated.

•    Accountable for your individual Technical development.

 

What are we looking for? 

•    Relevant Electrical Engineering qualification

•    Electrical experience in Manufacturing

•    Ability to manage contractors

•    Worked extensively is an industrial electrical engineering environment

•    PLC programming skills Rockwell and Siemens.

•    Extensive knowledge in Electrical 

•    Ability to travel globally

•    Fluent English language skills
 

 

 

 

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.

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