Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium 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.

Position overview:

The Shift Manager wiill be a key member of the Production Team, reporting to the Production Manager. This role will be responsible for contributing to the success of Ball by ensuring that all activities on shift are undertaken in such a manner that quality, efficiency, safety and environment standards are achieved and maintained.

Key responsibilites include:

Providing leadership to the shift personnel and support the development of effective team working

Achieving results through leadership and coaching, utilising Total Quality and Continuous Improvements methods

Operating in close liaison with Quality function to ensure that our Customers are not compromised in any manner, and we become the preferred suppliers through quality and consistency of product

Encouraging and supporting all continuous improvements activities

Assuming full responsibility for the plant and its operations in the absence of the other senior personnel

Supervising of all the shift personnel ensuring the most efficient and effective use of resources

Ensuring that management systems and all procedures are being adhered to at all times which includes addressing any non-compliance and, if need be, reporting same to relevant health, safety and environment legislation

Ensure that corrective actions are identified and expedited in a controller manner where manufacturing problems arise

Promoting and maintenaning of good industrial relations in conjunction with Production Manager / Plant Manager / HR Manager

Adopting the principles of the Ball Corporation and ICA and providing positive and corrective feedback to team members

Working with HR function to manage and build strong relationship with employee representative groups

Experience and skills required:

Degree in Manufacturing or Engineering related fields

Job related experience for minimum 5 years in a high speed, high volume production environment

Proven track record in over achieving KPIs and Operational Targets

Good understanding of modern lean manufacturing techniques (SMED, 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Structured problem solving, TPM/OEE)

Experience in handling Industrial Relations issues

Fluent in written and verbal English

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation .

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 21,000 members worldwide. 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.

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.