Senior Service Technician

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 summary:

You play a hands-on role in supporting the core process equipment across our plants in EMEA region. You'll be refurbishing and assembling key components at our Wellness Centre, ensuring they’re ready for smooth installation during major equipment overhauls. When urgent repairs or troubleshooting are needed, you’ll be the expert our plants rely on. You’ll also create best practice guidelines and train our teams, sharing your knowledge to help improve productivity and standardize processes. Be part of exciting projects, providing support during installation, commissioning, and start-up to ensure everything runs efficiently. Plus, you’ll keep things on track with detailed reporting on all your work, both at the Wellness Centre and on-site. If you love hands-on work, problem-solving, and making an impact, this role is for you!

Your key responsibilities include:

• Unload, inspect and prepare machinery and sub-assemblies on arrival at Wellness Centre
• Repair and rebuild of mechanical equipment and sub-assemblies according to manufacturer’s drawings and documentation
• Travel to plants to replace and repair equipment and sub-assemblies
• Provide specialised technical support by guiding teams on improvements or problem solving on process equipment. Generate technical reports.
• Support projects with the install, commission and support start-up of new equipment. Working with suppliers, preparing mechanical assemblies within the Wellness Centre or in a plant to ensure execution of the project within time and cost.
• Generate and provide technical materials and training for process equipment to assist in the development of technical skills and knowledge on new and existing equipment.
• Ensure drawings and records are up to date and filed in accordance with policies.
• Provide standardisation of process equipment through the generation and distribution of ‘best practises’. Keep up to date on ‘best practises’ from other Regions and establish suitability for our Regions process equipment.
• Carry out process equipment audits to ensure equipment is within specification. Generate reports and recommendations and highlight actions for any out-of-specification items.
• Work with suppliers and OEM’s to keep up dated on latest developments and improvements that can be implemented to reduce maintenance time and improve equipment life.

What are we looking for?

• 5+ years as Maintenance Technician, Toolroom Engineer, Field Service Technician or Mechanical Fitter in a manufacturing environment
• Good communication skills
• Use of lathes, mills and grinding machines, hand tools and precision measuring equipment.
• Good mechanical troubleshooting and fault-finding skills 
• Fluent in English

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.

No agencies please.