Senior Engineer, Preventative Maintenance
Luton, GB, LU1 3LG
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Position Overview:
As the Preventative Maintenance Senior Engineer, you’re a key member of the Maintenance Engineering team for Global Beverage Packaging, reporting to the Global Manager, Equipment & Maintenance Operational Excellence . You will contribute to the success of Ball by helping establish reliability focused maintenance practices at a global level. It's a hybrid mode of work.
Your Key Areas of Responsibilities Include:
- Maintenance Strategy: Develop, optimize, improve the Maintenance Pillar of Ball Operational Excellence (BOE). Help to drive a standardized preventative maintenance program across multiple regions.
- Audit the performance of the preventative maintenance programs (Ball Operational Excellence [BOE])/ initiatives for the production plants in the assigned region.
- Collaboration and Continuous Improvement: Work with regional maintenance teams, region and global SMEs to improve equipment reliability, implement new ideas or technologies.
- Equipment Reliability and Performance: Analyze equipment data in conjunction with failures to improve performance of production assets, enhance uptime, extend asset life; and improve maintenance KPI’s.
- Support the Global Engineering Group in the pursuit and adoption of best-in-class performance of production plant assets.
- Culture Connection: Help to promote a culture of safety, environment, health, quality and maintenance in the workplace. Encourage adherence to standards and practices of excellence, and help to drive cross-functional teamwork.
- Training: Support stakeholders on the most appropriate methods and decisions related to preventative maintenance of plant assets.
- Support the information technology teams in collecting and analyzing preventative maintenance data to ensure accurate and on time CMMS reporting.
- Collaborate with operational teams to identify new preventative maintenance and conditional monitoring technologies.
- Cost Optimization and Budgeting Improvements: Help to improve and identify maintenance and repair (M&R) best practices and optimization efforts. Help to optimize schedules, reduce unplanned downtime and improve spare part management.
Required Education, Skills and Knowledge:
- High School diploma or equivalent education, with a preference for a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other related field.
- 5+ years minimum of maintenance experience in high-speed manufacturing; including experience in packaging manufacturing.
- Demonstrated ability, skills and experience:
- Utilizing a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) (such as: JDE, SAP, Shop Floor Online etc.)
- Mechanical expertise: machinery maintenance, mechanical systems, and reliability engineering.
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to communicate with all levels of personnel.
- Data-Driven: Utilizing data to drive decision making; Analytical ability to identify improvement opportunities and solve complex problems.
- Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing or continuous improvement methodologies.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) experience.
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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.
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