Manufacturing Excellence Lead (NCA)

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.

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Position Overview:

As a Regional Manufacturing Excellence Lead for NCA, you are a key member of the Ball Operational Excellence Team;  reporting to the Manufacturing Excellence Senior Manager. You will contribute to the success of Ball by managing plant-based Manufacturing Excellence Managers in the deployment of a Lean-based manufacturing excellence model to ensure standardization, operational excellence and significant value across the North and Central America (NCA) region.  

Your Key Areas of Responsibility Include: 

• Support and manage key assignments and improvement efforts as needed, including deployment strategy, planning, training, coaching, problem solving, project management, people development and resource development.
• Facilitate change and support deployment, adoption and sustainment of Lean thinking and a standard Lean-Based Management System within the region.
• Identify, clarify, and resolve barriers to achieving operational excellence in manufacturing plants/regional production groups.
• Lead multiple strategic and operational improvement projects from identification, inception, and analysis to implementation and sustainable execution that delivers manufacturing cost savings.
• Drive successful evolution of and execution on Manufacturing Excellence Model to be the most competitive in cost, quality and service by continually driving for efficiencies in our processes.
• Deliver on the organization’s priorities, working closely with leadership in defining, scoping, launching, and implementing new initiatives. Collaborate with decision makers and stakeholders to minimize risk.
• Facilitate and make complex decisions and recommendations under limited direction and use a high degree of initiative and independent judgment.
• Build, develop, and grow business relationships vital to the success of the specific Ball region manufacturing team.
• Manage risk by effectively and clearly communicating project effort, progress, achievements, problems and failures on a timely basis.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing by initiating best practice sharing and benchmarking within the global best practice SharePoint site and outwardly to the region by liaising with the other sub-regional Continuous Improvement leaders.

Required Skills and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in a Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or Engineering-related discipline or other related discipline or equivalent experience in high-speed manufacturing.  
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with deployment of Lean methodologies in a manufacturing setting.  
• Demonstrated skills in the following:
  • Management and leadership of others
  • Project Management
  • Delivering results through influencing
  • Computer proficiency- specifically Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
  • Adapting style to effectively interact with different audiences (shopfloor to executive leadership)
• Working Knowledge of :
  • Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques
  • Financial statements
  • Coaching and training techniques
  • Managing various stakeholders in a matrix organization

Compensation & Benefits

•  Hybrid On-Site Work Environment: Based in Colorado, this position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site for three (3) or more days per work week (with core collaboration days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Travel  (30-40%) and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations is required. 
• Hiring Salary Range: $85,100 - $118,760 (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.
• Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, please visit our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.

When submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role. Under Colorado, California, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania law, you have the right to exclude or redact age-related details—such as your date of birth, school attendance dates, or graduation dates—from your resume, cover letter, CV, or other supporting documents (e.g., transcripts, certificates). 

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 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.
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