Shift Manager

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.

Key responsibilities include:

• Achieve the production objectives of the plant within quality, safety, efficiency and budget requirements.
• Ensure corrective action is taken, as required, for all equipment and operational problems.
• Ensure adequate training, supervision and corrective feedback to the team members for whom they are responsible.
• Supervise the process and personnel on their crew to ensure achievement of production targets & to minimize downtime.
• Ensure quality standards and minimise spoilage.
• Ensure standard of equipment setting and operating achieves the required specification.
• Ensure employees and contractors at site follow up safety procedures. Promote safety culture.
• Ensure the hygiene standards throughout the factory meet Company quality, technical and food hygiene and safety standards in order to meet customer expectations and Company goals.
• Promote and maintain good industrial relations and housekeeping.
• Investigate and report equipment and process defects promptly to enable corrective action to be taken.
• Close teamwork with functional department, i.e. Engineering & Quality

What are we looking for? 

• Proper education in Technical Discipline, preferably a degree

• A manufacturing background in a high speed, high volume continuous process
• Successful track record in man management in combination with proven record of task achievement
• Problem solving & total quality skills
• Experience in handling industrial relations issues
• Basic understanding of modern lean manufacture technique - SMED, Kaizen 5S, Kanban, Structured Problem Solving, TPM/OEE, SPC, 6 Sigma etc;
• Understanding of working to External Quality/Environmental Standards i.e. ISO 9001:2000 / 14001
• A management style heavily orientated to training and coaching
• Good computer skills – ability to manage via computerised data
• Fluent Finnish and English language is a plus

Additional information given by Production Manager Olli-Pekka Nevalainen

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.