Fitter

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.

Purpose of the job:

The function of a Fitter is to work to a planned maintenance schedule while ensuring full support is provided to production 24/7.  The role requires the Fitter to work within a team environment, liaising with Production and Engineering personnel. The Individual must also have the skills and ability to work alone. 

The Fitter must prioritise his workload in conjunction with Lead Fitter and Shift  Manager, while ensuring that the requirements of the shift’s and projects been undertaken within the plant are met.  Ensuring that all work carried out is in compliance with plant Health and Safety rules.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Strict compliance with all environmental, Health, Safety and Hygiene requirements
• Conduct corrective and preventative maintenance on all operational equipment
• Ensure a quick reaction time to minimise downtime. Proactively work with the Lead Fitter and operational personnel to identify and reduce the frequency of press stop
• Focus on fault finding and ensuring a long tern solution to problems. Investigate areas of repetitive downtime and actively problem solve to prevent re-occurrence using PM11 and other database systems, for data analysis
• Ensure that the manufacturing function receives the required level of support 24/7
• Contribute to achievement of plant environmental, Health, Safety and Hygiene targets
• Ensure at all times a safe working environment is maintained, (all guards and safety equipment removed for interventions are replaced before machines are restarted.)
• Achieve KPI’s and other related targets
• Work in partnership with all other functions to achieve overall plant and business objectives
• Participate in the plant Safety Committee

Principal Accountabilities:

• Maintain, repair and investigate machine breakdowns, to ensure minimum levels of downtime within the plant. Specific focus should be given to auxiliary equipment faults.
• Carry out all duties in accordance with the company’s health and safety policies
• Proactively problem solve to ensure that operational issues are solved permanently
• Ensure corrective action is taken, as required, for all equipment and operational problems to drive continuous improvement in the Plant
• Operate effectively with other Engineering personnel to ensure the overall performance of the plant
• Ensure that the work area is left clean and safe when a task or intervention is completed
• The job description is issued on the basis that the main duties and responsibilities of the above position are, but not limited, as outlined above

Compensation and benefits include:

• Company contributory pension scheme
• 6 months full maternity pay
• Cycle To Work scheme
• Long service awards
• Access to learning and development pathways

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.