Team Leader FE

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. Please only apply if you are eligible to work in the UK as sponsorship is not offered for this role.

Position overview: The Front End Team Leader will 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.

Key responsibilities include:

• 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.

What are we looking for?

• 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.
• This role involves shift work – 12 hour shifts, working days, nights and weekends (2 weeks day shift, 2 weeks night shift).
• 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.

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

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. No agencies please.