Manufacturing Excellence Specialist

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 Excellence Specialist position is the catalyst for plant-level standardization in the deployment of the management system and continuous improvement activity throughout the plant to deliver AOP and stretch targets. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Responsible for BME (Ball Manufacturing Excellence) self-assessment and improvement plan execution, embedding standards in Operations' way of working as per BOE (Ball Operational Excellence) program.
• Develop and maintain a Plant Manufacturing Excellence Master plan that supports the delivery of the short and long-term objectives of the business.
• Lead business-critical cross-functional projects that either enable or directly deliver FFG (Fuel for growth) savings in the respective cost categories, utilizing specified minimum project requirements.
• Plan, facilitate, and execute continuous improvement activities by using Lean tools and techniques (VSM, 5S, SMED, PDCA, TPM, Problem Solving Techniques, ...) to improve & sustain performance
• Facilitate policy deployment process (Hoshin Kanri) to identify plant vision, mission, goals, objectives, and strategic initiatives for the next three-year period together with the Plant Management Team.
•  Develop project management & cost optimization governance in the plant, train and support project leaders to progress the projects by considering minimum project requirements.
• Lead problem-solving projects by training, coaching, and facilitating teams to perform effective root cause analysis methods.
• Examine data sets from Manufacturing Execution & Quality Systems in order to find trends and draw conclusions about the information they contain by using statistical tools.
• Manage plant better practices program, liaise with the company's continuous improvement network for both benchmarking internal and external best practices, and roll out in the plant
• Prepare plant lean training program for cross-functional team members, train plant teams on Lean principles and tools, and follow-up training program together with the Regional Manufacturing Excellence Manager.

What are we looking for?

• University degree in Science, Engineering or Business
•  At least 3 years of relevant experience with a manufacturing company known for its maturity in lean management (automotive, FMCG…) (Essential)
• Good understanding of LEAN tools and system, demonstrated portfolio of leading lean project management at least 3 years (Essential)
• Good understanding of statistical process control and data analysis, Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certified (Essential)
• Able to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization, constantly seeing to understand how to engage and involve different individuals
• Pragmatic and shop floor oriented
• Able to deliver to tight deadlines
• Acts with humility and proactively collaborates with others to solve big, cross-functional issues
• Always looking to challenge the ways things are done and helps others find new ideas to improve performance
• Able to build trust between, and align, disparate groups across and beyond the organization
• Change agent with strong credibility and influence in the organization
• Have a “can do” attitude and be able to do what it takes to succeed
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Very good knowledge of English language

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.