Coatings Specialist (SA) - São José dos Campos/SP

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.

Overview

This role supports global technical expertise in coatings (IC, OV, Ink) and executes region qualifications with global alignment, ensuring accountability of suppliers and plants, mitigating risk, and accelerating technology adoption.

Essential responsible areas 

• Executes the Global Coatings Qualification Strategy within the region, supporting standardization and material specifications to optimize costs and enhance product quality.
• Execute the coating sustainability roadmap in alignment with business and customer needs while ensuring regulatory compliance within the region in alignment with global.
• Partner with global quality, engineering, and procurement as well as internal and external laboratory to support plant quality performance associated with coatings through BOE within region.
• Direct and frequent communication with all departments within region, in alignment with global, regarding quality, customer technical services, product approval, compliance.
• Track performance metrics for global coating suppliers within the region, ensuring transparent reporting and implementing robust audit processes to address key variables impacting supplier performance.
• Within the region in alignment globally lead and coordinate the qualification of new coating suppliers, ensuring alignment with quality standards, and regulations.
• Support standardization of coating specifications to simplify processes, reduce costs, regionally to optimize quality, supply chain efficiency, and product performance. Drive continuous improvement activities in coating application processes.

Requirements

Mandatory

• Completed Bachelors Degree preference in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related discipline
• Min 5 years experience with managing relationships with global suppliers, establishing performance metrics, conducting audits, and ensuring alignment with quality standards and regulations
• Working knowledge of coating materials, processes, and technologies, principles and practices of supplier management is vital for optimizing relationships with global suppliers, quality metrics
• Advanced English 
• Advanced Microsoft office 
• Available to travel across South America about 50–60% of the time

Desirable

• Developing and implementing cohesive strategies for coating qualification on a global scale. It includes standardizing protocols, optimizing costs, and enhancing product quality through strategic planning and execution 
• Min 3 years driving sustainability initiatives, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations, and managing regulatory affairs related to coating materials
• relevant regulations and standards governing coatings and materials

Additional Information

• Location: São José dos Campos/SP (ER) or remote from your location
• Hybrid On-Site Work Environment or remote: Preference for regular in-person engagement by working on-site for three (3)days per work week (with core collaboration days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday), but the manager is considering a remote arrangement from the location where the candidate is based.
• Schedule: 8:00 AM to 17:00 PM 
• GGS: Global Grade 10
• Benefits: Relocation benefits not provided
• Application Deadline: April 3, 2026
• Important: When applying for this position, it is necessary to inform your current manager about your application in order to be considered for the next steps of the selection process.

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.

Job Grade: Global Grade 11