Director, Global Maintenance Engineering

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 21,000 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.

Primary Purpose of this Position:  

Lead Ball Global’s Maintenance pillar within the Ball Operational Excellence (BOE) system, focusing on asset wellness, setting global strategy, and innovating to enhance asset uptime and efficiency. 

What will you be responsible for? 

• Develop global maintenance strategy for Ball manufacturing, prioritizing cost competitiveness and efficiency. Standardize systems across plants to support all activities. 

• Link Center of Excellence (COE) to BOE to ensure best-in-class standards are implemented. Provide training materials and expertise for engineering teams. 

• Coordinate maintenance planning globally, optimizing resources and purchases cost-effectively. Execute against consolidated plans, including internal and external resource planning. 

• Lead Global Wellness Centre, rebuilding prime mover equipment and establishing critical parts inventory for catastrophic breakdowns. 

• Manage annual global capital budgets of $150M - $200M. Oversee Wellness Centre P&L, making strategic decisions based on EVA and cost optimization. 

• Lead global spare parts reduction strategy, collaborating with Procurement to establish optimum inventory levels and standardize store room design. 

• Lead Preventative Maintenance program to ensure compliance with Minimum Maintenance Standards across all plants. 

• Implement continuous improvement initiatives to maximize resource use and improve equipment reliability through Wellness Events and Preventative Maintenance. 

• Harmonize regional engineering resources in implementing global standards across safety, sustainability, capital management, and maintenance. 

• Develop and communicate standardized asset utilization and equipment maintenance standards for new and existing plants globally as a key member of the global engineering leadership team 

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 7-10 years’ experience developing and implementing global maintenance strategies for manufacturing equipment and resources.  

• Minimum 7 years of experience of  leadership and project management skills to coordinate global maintenance planning cycles, manage capital budgets, and oversee the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives. 

• Minimum of 7 years of experience collaborating across regions and functional areas, particularly in integrating Center of Excellence (COE) with Business Operational Excellence (BOE) pillars.  

• Knowledge of and experience with modern lean manufacture technique - SMED, Kaizen 5S, Kanban, Structured Problem Solving, TPM/OEE, SPC/6 Sigma etc.
• Knowledge of and experience with manufacturing engineering practices and processes.

• Problem solving / total quality skills.

• Demonstrated planning and project management skills. 

• Knowledge of manufacturing engineering practices, processes.
• Knowledge of 2 piece can manufacturing preferred, but not required.   

 Compensation & Benefits:

• If based in Denver, this position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site for four (4) or more days per work week (with core collaboration days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Travel and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.
• 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