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Manufacturing Line Operator - Final Product Inspector (FPI)

Company:  Ball Corporation
Location: 

Kettering, ENG, GB

Date:  11 Jul 2025
Job Category:  Manufacturing/ Operations
Req ID:  44089

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: 

 

The Manufacturing Line Operator - Final Product Inspector (FPI) will ensure that the Plant Quality Standards are driven on to meet the set Quality Requirements and Procedures.

 

Key responsibilities include:

 

  • Maintain safe working practices (SEV) and comply with any legal environmental and safety requirements and/or checks, always work safely and to report unsafe conditions to their supervisor or shift manager immediately.
  • Conducting pallet inspection and carry out the required quality checks and monitor the manufacturing process.
  • Monitor and escalate Quality issues to the Quality department and ensure that the Shift Manager / Team Leader is informed of any issues affecting the quality of the product through the shift.
  • Decision maker on Non-Critical HFI Pallet disposition (Release, Sort, Scrap) and completing necessary paperwork during the shift, label sign off during QC holidays and attending shift changeovers
  • Carry out the audits and provide the data, maintaining 5s standards, WGLL and changing the banders
  • Operating/maintaining ticket printers. Changing tickets
  • Operating Quality computer systems (SFOL / SharePoint / Viscan)
  • Read / understand production plan and spec requirements and requesting pallets from warehouse process
  • Promote quality improvement and preventative actions by involvement in continuous improvement activities to meet the key performance objectives and target
  • Supporting sorting activities when required
  • Undertake activities as directed by the Quality Supervisor/Quality Manager
  • Stand in/cover for QC as and when required

 

What are we looking for? 

 

  • Proven experience within a similar quality-based role 
  • Knowledge of GMP
  • Knowledge of FSSC, ISO 9001, ISO14001 & OHSAS18001
  • Knowledge of HACCP
  • Ability to apply standard plant quality assurance techniques, procedures, and criteria in carrying out a sequence of plant quality assurance tasks.
  • Attention to detail
  • Basic computer skills 
  • Fluent in 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.

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