Principal Engineer, Mechanical Support Equipment

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.

Primary Purpose of this Position: 

Leveraging expert technical leadership, develop the standard design philosophy, specifications and operation of plant support equipment across the global network of can plants, while deploying change control procedures and continuous improvement methodologies. 

What will you be responsible for? 

• Responsible for establishing global standard design for mechanical support equipment (compressors, vacuum systems, boilers, RTO and heat recovery, balers) including equipment specifications, SOPs, maintenance standards, operating parameters, troubleshooting methodologies.  

• Responsible for maintaining global best practices around relevant equipment operation.  

• Work closely with Regional Process leads to support best practice discovery, deployment and tracking. 

• Work with Innovation on transition of relevant technology into Operations, including development of new specifications, operating parameters and necessary standards to deploy globally.   

• Support Global Spare Parts with necessary recommended spares lists.   

• Work with procurement to establish total cost of ownership across competitive supplier equipment.  

• Work closely with Global Sustainability to establish best practice energy consumption targets and support calculation of optimization opportunities. 

What are we looking for? 

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree or 5-7 years of work related experience. 

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Manufacturing Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. 

• Support: Plant support equipment operation, training, problem solving, continuous improvement, overhauling. 

• Mechanical Expertise: Machinery maintenance, mechanical systems, and preventive maintenance strategies, utilizing technical documentation effectively 

• Data-Driven: Utilizing data to drive decision making. 

• Optimization: Optimization of energy consumption in compressed air systems.. 

• Knowledge of: Lean Manufacturing  and Document management systems and change control #LI-MV2

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.