Specialist, Maintenance Planning & Execution (EMEA)

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum 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:

This role will be developing and ensuring maintenance planning and control methods, standardize CMMS, data measurement, and KPIs for operational performance. Also the role will share best maintenance practices and implement equipment improvements as well as develop and implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to track progress, formulate action plans, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.  

 Key responsibilities include: 

•    Lead the optimization of maintenance planning of productive equipment, enabling the plant to achieve optimal production results

•    Direct and monitor the development of plans and schedules to ensure scope, cost, and schedule compliance

•    Manage maintenance management reports within Plant teams to execute all activities, aiming to reduce equipment downtimes

•    Develop and oversee maintenance reports and costs entered in the maintenance system, aiming to reduce expenses

•    Promote the adoption of best practices, lean tools, and engineered solutions, as they relate to building and sustaining a world class maintenance program

•    Monitor operational efficiency of refurbished equipment to increase productivity

•    Reduce spare parts inventory through technical analysis to prevent stockouts during mechanical equipment interventions  

•    Identify team development and training needs, fostering employee engagement and participation

•    Perform equipment inspection activities using technical criteria based on history, supplier information, engineering studies, and acquired knowledge

What are we looking for? 

•    Minimum of 3 years’ experience in process optimization and spare part management 

•    Minimum of 3 years’ experience in process engineering and maintenance 

•    A university degree in Engineering-related discipline or NVQ Level 6 - preferred

•    Fluent written and spoken English

•    Experience in industrial process analysis with a systemic approach and knowledge of continuous improvement tools 

•    Technical analysis skills to evaluate and optimize spare part potentials across production stages 

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 aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles 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.

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