Director, Global Capital and Process Standards

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging and aerospace solutions. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Primary Purpose of this Position:  

The Capital and Process Standards role establishes industry-leading practices in Ball’s Global Engineering process, directing standardized activities including Capital Project Engineering, Process Optimization/Innovation, and Technical Licensee support. 

What will you be responsible for? 

• Project Engineering: including establishing best practices for design and utilization of can lines. Responsible for plant design with values ranging from $200m to $400m. 

• Process Optimization / Innovation: including acting as the subject matter experts for optimizing, improving and developing processes with existing technology for utility, power, civil construction and waste water systems. Expectations are to provide standard and cost effective solutions. 

• Technical licensee support: managing the communications, information flows and the financial reconciliation. 

• Direct the provision of engineering and technical support to the regional and joint venture engineering teams.   

• Oversee the establishment of a platform to enable global collaboration to solve complex problems and share solutions. As well as global technology and software platforms to enable global document management and control.  

• Oversee preparation of large capital project cost estimates for the strategic plan, operating plan and AFE process and control over capital project budgets and expenditures. 

• Set standards for capital budgeting and control. Ensuring governance and processes in place to ensure accurate cost estimation and budgetary control. 

• Collaborate and work closing with Capital Procurement and key suppliers of major capital equipment and services. Working closely entails design of plants and lines, including detailing aspects for equipment. 

• Oversee the transition of development equipment and processes to Operations from initial concepts, through testing and concluding with final rollout/standardization potential. Requires close work with suppliers and Ball internal ‘Good Ideas’ processes. 

• Responsible for the transition of Ball production innovations to production ready. Entails working closely with Global Innovation teams and Operations are process innovation moves form Alpha state to trial phase 

What are we looking for? 

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field. 

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in experience in project engineering leadership, particularly in establishing best practices for design and utilization.  

• Minimum of 7 years of experience managing technology in a large, complex environment.  

• Minimum of 7 years of experience generating business cases/ROI, performing technology selection and vendor management.  

• The ability to apply intensive and diversified evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard information services techniques, procedures, and criteria. 

• Knowledge of programming, systems design, computer operating systems and utilities, project management, risk management, security, cost management, implementation and start-up of new business processes and computerized systems.  

• Knowledge of purchasing, legal contracts, taxes, leases, licenses, accounting, economics, depreciation, capitalization, accruals, ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), EAR (Export Administration Regulations), auditing (internal and external), insurance, and contract negotiations.  

• Knowledge of system and business principles, practices, nomenclature, and procedures.

 Compensation & Benefits:

• This role can located remotely; however, there is a strong preference for candidates to be based in Westminster, CO. 
• Hiring Salary Range: $142,000 – $242,400 USD*. Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.  
• This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan. 
• *If this role is offered/hired in another country, local market data will be used. 

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 21,000 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.

Job Grade: 15