Team Leader Manufacturing/Printing

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.

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

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

Salary - £56,897.90 per annum, increasing to £60,055.62 per annum after completion of the first phase of the training matrix, with a further increase to £63,220.58 per annum upon completion of the second phase of the training matrix

Primary purpose of the position:

To lead the operators to provide high quality cans, with lowest spoilage, at required production efficiencies, and providing cans in a safe low cost effective and environmentally sustainable highly efficient manner, both from the Tooling and Machinery.

Essential Responsible Areas:

•               Control tooling and maintenance spend to budget, reducing working capital of tooling and spare parts
•                Provide innovative, sustainable, cost saving plans
•                Develop maintenance and overhaul procedures for Front End equipment, using maintenance Software, develop condition monitoring as part of maintenance procedures
• To plan and manage Front End and down gauging projects
• To manage tooling development/improvement projects in the Front End and Toolroom
• Support and implement SMED activities for improved efficiency
• Leading a team of 6-7 colleagues in roles as Engineers and Mechanics, conducting appraisals, interviews, training needs analysis etc

Position Requirement & competencies:

• Engineering qualifications
• A leader with 3 to 5 years experience within a manufacturing environment  
• Team player
• Proactive, service minded approach
• Experience with hydraulic machines, experience within and understanding of tooling geometry and tool room experience is essential
• An understanding of theoretical tooling design and the can forming process is essential
• Demonstrate Ball Leadership Behaviours:
  • Demonstrates Self-Awareness: Uses a combination of feedback and self-reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses          
  • Instils Trust: Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity
  • Interpersonal Intelligence: Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people 
  • Demonstrated Results: Consistently achieves results even under tough circumstances

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.