Technical Specialist - Necking area

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Your Opportunity to Make an Impact 

At Ball, every role on the plant floor contributes to something bigger. Learn how this opportunity will allow you to grow your skills while helping deliver safe, high-quality products that make a difference for our customers, communities, and planet: 

As a Technical Specialist - Necking, you will help establish and maintain best practices within the necking area of the manufacturing process. Working closely with operators, technologists, and technical specialists across Ball facilities, you will drive process improvements, develop operational capability, and support new technology and product initiatives. Your expertise will contribute to manufacturing efficiency, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement across the plant. 

How You'll Make a Difference 

The responsibilities below represent more than daily tasks. They are opportunities to support safe operations, maintain quality standards, collaborate with teammates, and contribute to the products and solutions trusted by customers around the world: 

• Establish, maintain, optimize, and expand process parameters within the necking area to support stable and efficient manufacturing operations. 

• Train production operatives in necking processes through both practical and theoretical instruction while assessing knowledge and skill development. 

• Initiate and support process changes that improve operational performance, product quality, and customer satisfaction. 

• Create and maintain technical and methodological work instructions and support the visualisation of operating standards. 

• Contribute to process validation, changeovers, efficiency improvements, and the development of new projects in collaboration with the R&D team. 

• Monitor consumable usage, identify opportunities for cost reduction, evaluate technological limitations, and ensure compliance with EHS safety policies. 

What Helps You Thrive in This Role 

We're looking for individuals who take pride in creating quality products, solving challenges, and keeping operations moving forward. Here are the skills and experiences that will help you succeed in this role and contribute to the manufacturing excellence that powers our business every day: 

• Engineering qualification (mandatory)

• Previous experience in a similar mechanical AND automation-focused technical role within a manufacturing environment (mandatory)

• Mechanical apprenticeship or equivalent mechanical qualification (desirable)

• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, continuous improvement principles, and process optimisation techniques. 

• Ability to coach, train, and develop operational teams through practical and theoretical knowledge sharing. 

• Good computer literacy, including proficiency with Microsoft Office applications. 

• Strong problem-solving, process management, communication, and technical learning capabilities, with the flexibility to travel occasionally to other Ball Aerocan facilities. 

Working hours: daily position, 40 hours per week / 8 hours per day. Availability to work on shift in case of emergency. 

​Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions 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. 
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