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Company: Ball Corporation

Location:

Kettering, ENG, GB

Date: 6 Aug 2025

Job Category: Manufacturing/ Operations

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 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 the plant Electrician, you will be a member of the wider Maintenance Team that plays a critical part in supporting the plant\’s overall business plans and objectives as directed.

This role will involve setting up the brand-new production lines, flexibility is required.

This is 12 hours shift role – 2 day shift, 2 night shift, 4 days off

Key responsibilities include:

• Installs and maintains high-speed, industrial process equipment for can and/or end making, power, lighting control, and PLC logic controls for all production processes and control equipment.
• Troubleshoots, adjusts and repairs all electrical equipment, components, transducers, and complex timing and inspection devices.
• Performs preventative maintenance on assigned electrical systems.
• Identifies inefficiencies and potential electrical problems and coordinates through supervisor to resolve them.
• Diagnoses causes of malfunctions and corrects through programmable logic controls. Ensures efficient equipment operation through proper line control programming and proactively suggests methods to improve line performance.
• Installs and troubleshoots facility power distribution and lighting services.
• Must display competent ability to wire, assemble, and layout electrical/electronic systems in an extremely neat and professional manner and conform to Ball wiring specifications.
• Updates wiring schematics and computer program printouts.
• Supplies and maintains required hand tools.
• Initiates, reviews, and follows all standard operating procedures (SOPs, JBSs).
• Updates wiring schematics and computer program printouts.

What are we looking for?

• Experience in a similar role in a fast-paced, critical 24/7 manufacturing or industrial company
• This is 12 hours shift role – 2 days shift, 2 night shift, 4 days off
• City & Guilds Electrical Installation Level 3, or HNC/HND qualifications
• Clear communication across all levels and ability to train colleagues as needed
• Ability to use basic hand and power tools and electronic testing equipment
• Working knowledge of the following areas: nomenclature of all assigned equipment; solid state circuitry, electronics, electrical-mechanical devices, transmission systems, interface units, AC/DC motors, wiring diagrams and schematics, computers and inspection and digital devices.

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 16,000 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.

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