Production & Tooling Engineer

This position will be posted for a minimum of 5 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.

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.

Position Overview: 

As a Production & Tooling  Engineer, you are a key member of the NCA Beverage Container Engineering team, reporting Manager, Engineering Beverage Container. You will contribute to the success of Ball by managing and executing regional North & Central America (NCA) project work as it relates to product engineering and tooling.   These projects may include (not limited to) lightweighting of existing aluminum containers, new product introductions to existing plants and new products installed into new plant builds.  

Your Key Areas of Responsibility Include: 

• Support operational teams on all aspects of aluminum product performance and high speed metal forming, including tooling and process troubleshooting.  
• Participate in large scale capital projects relating to launching new products in existing or new plant builds.  This includes cost estimations, product specifications, machine tooling specifications, and project management for tooling design and procurement.
• Facilitate capital projects relating to metal reduction (lightweighting) of existing aluminum containers.  
• Assist in strategic planning by assessing feasibility cost, and benefit of new and lightweight products.
• Provide technical support on and off site related to product adherence to specifications, product performance, and work with process machine, tooling and toolroom employees.
• Use statistical tools, SPC, Six Sigma, Minitab and more to analyze large quantities of product data for development and fault finding purposes; perform product testing using various in-process and finished product quality measuring gauges.
• Travel (up to 50%)  to off-site production facilities for hands-on troubleshooting and support. Support operations to drive for year-over-year improved quality, efficiency and reduced spoilage and operating costs by reviewing processes, tooling design and trialing modifications where appropriate.
• Maintain existing Engineering development databases and systems.

Required Skills and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or other relevant engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in mechanical design, CAD or manufacturing experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience managing projects (scoping projects and timeline generation).
• Experience applying lean manufacturing and six sigma methodologies in daily activities.
• Demonstrated skills:
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (such as Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams).
  • Materials and materials engineering
  • Tooling design
  • Technical drawings
  • Understanding of bill of materials  
  • Understanding of statistical reporting; ability to analyze and take action 

Preferred Skills and Experience: 

• Spanish language proficiency (written and verbal skills).
• Skilled working in  Minitab
• Beverage can manufacturing experience 

 Compensation & Benefits

• Hiring Salary Range: $75,400 - $105,290  (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, go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.
• This position is eligible to be REMOTE in the U.S., preferably with a home base within a 50-mile radius of a major airport, due to travel (up to 50%)  requirements. 

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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