Project Manager I - IC

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.

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.

Primary Purpose of this Position:  

Provides project management services for capital and expense projects as directed.  Project Manager is responsible for leading a team of professionals in completing projects by a set deadline to uphold business initiatives.  Duties include setting, dividing up and tracking the budget for different project aspects, ensuring equipment and service orders are placed that support overall project costs and schedules, hiring freelance professionals and selecting project team members from internal departments, plus setting and adjusting project schedules to adhere to deadlines.

What will you be responsible for? 

• Ensures all personnel involved in a project, to include but limited to project team, plant personnel and contractors are aware of and adhere to all safety rules and regulations.
• Directs activities involved with the planning and implementation of assigned projects of all types.
• Coordinates feasibility and pre-AFE planning studies.  Gathers, analyses, organizes and presents information from the customer, manufacturing, engineering, and all other appropriate business areas.
• Writes AFE’s and requisitions with detailed work scopes, accurate cost estimates, and clear, thorough communication of the project goals and justification.
• Manages projects to minimize the cost required to achieve approved project objectives, effectively using Ball’s project accounting systems.  Keeps the project cost control updated by continuous reforecasting.
• Establishes and monitors project schedules; makes use of the critical path approach to scheduling; revises project schedules as required to maintain project goals, develop responsibility plans and start-up production plans.
• Keeps management and project team informed of project status, including progress, problems, cost, and schedule through regularly published project status reports.
• Effectively builds and leads all disciplines of project teams, incorporating engineering, customer, and other department’s personnel.
• Establishes engineering documentation, change order and work order controls to ensure project design and construction is in accordance with appropriate standards and meets the approved requirements for the project.
• Extensive and innovative use of the computer for project planning and scheduling (Microsoft Project), accounting (Cost Control), organization (Action Item Lists), verbal and written communications, to keep stakeholders informed and accountable to project goals.

What are we looking for? 

• Broad training in a related field, usually acquired through college or graduate degree-level education or work-related experience.
• Minimum of 4 years experience managing manufacturing projects.
• Financial acumen.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; leads group discussions; excellent presentation skills.
• Effective planning, organizing, monitoring, and reviewing skills.
• Problem solving.
• Delegation and resource management.
• Motivating and encouraging others.
• Decisiveness and ability to work well under pressure.
• Awareness of who the project will affect and managing the effect it will have on them.
• Computer skills – Outlook, Excel, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Business System.
• Industry knowledge associated with high-speed / automated production.
• Familiarity with general construction practices.
• Project:
  • scope definition and management.
  • schedule development and management.
  • budgeting and cost tracking / forecasting.
• Risk management and mitigation.
• 20%-30% travel required
• Desired certifications (or similar):

  • PMI (Proj Mgmt Institute)

  • PMI Agile-Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)®
     

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 and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.]
• Hiring Salary Range: $96,000 - $137,180 (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.

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.
No agencies please.

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