Front End Mechanic

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 21,000 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.

COMPETITIVE RATES OF PAY – above market rates

Please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK as sponsorship is not offered for this role

This role involves shift work – 12 hour shifts, days, nights and weekends

Purpose of the job:

To make good quality cans to specification

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

Bodymaker QC checks, water bath checks x2, work on BM breakdowns such as; short can issues, trimmer jams, unloader jams, redraw adjustments air leak faults and fix, misfeed issues, spec adjustments, polish/ring changes, know what ring does what, tool pack changes, startup sheets, xhatch punch/polish, coil perp and paperwork, bailer duty, attend washer stoppages, help on all 3 lines, housekeeping.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Professional & Education:                               

• Mechanical background
• Fully qualified engineer (desirable)

Previous experience

• Worked in high speed production            
• Canning work experience (desirable)

Skills and competencies

• Line awareness
• Communication skill
• Attention to detail
• High work rate 
• Common sense

Personal attributes                         

• Hard working
• Dedicated
• Enthusiastic       

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 21,000 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.