Team Leader FE

Company: Ball Corporation

Location: Milton Keynes, GB, MK15 0DA

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!

The work pattern for this role is 12 hour shifts, working days, nights and weekends in a rolling pattern. Please only apply if you are eligible to work in the UK as sponsorship is not offered for this role.

Salary: £56,897.90 increasing to £63,220.58 upon completion of the training matrix.

Primary purpose of the position: To organise and provide leadership to their team to ensure they provide high quality cans, with lowest spoilage, at required production efficiencies, and providing cans in a safe, low cost, effective and environmentally sustainable highly efficient manner both from the tooling and machinery.

Essential Responsible Areas:

• Control tooling and maintenance spend to budget, reduce working capital of tooling and spare parts.
• Provide innovative sustainable cost saving plans, manage tooling development/improvement projects in the Front End and Toolroom.
• Work with maintenance software and data to drive operational decisions.
• Lead a team of up to 7 people, and own leadership activities including managing appraisals, motivating the team, training and development of the team.
• Provide and organise training to ensure the team is competent in all aspects of their jobs.
• Ensure safe working practices are adhered to at all times and good housekeeping and safety awareness is continuously improved in the designated work area and throughout the team.
• Meet Production, Quality, Spoilage and environmental improvement targets as set by the Shift Manager, the Continuous Improvement teams and the Plant budget.
• Liase with the engineering department to ensure all maintenance work is completed to their satisfaction and continually look for methods to reduce breakdowns.
• Set up effective communication links with the team leaders on the other shifts.
• Co-ordinate actions to effectively utilise downtime.
• Operate effectively with other Team Leaders to control the overall performance of the plant.

Requirements:

• Engineering qualifications, mechanical background with mechanical breakdown experience.
• Previous Team Leader experience is required, ideally you will be a leader with 3 to 5 years experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Team player, proactive, service minded approach.
• Experience with hydraulic machines, understanding of tooling geometry and tool room experience is essential as is an understanding of theoretical tooling design and the can forming process.
• Driven to achieve and progress to the next level within the business.

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