Chemical Process Maintainer in Wakefield

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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 Chemical Process Maintainer, you will control, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain chemical and engineering processes that support can washing, reverse osmosis, wastewater treatment, and production operations. You will help maintain product quality and reliable equipment performance while ensuring processes meet safety, health, environmental, and legal requirements. Working with Front-End Maintainers, Operators, and other plant colleagues, you will support effective shift handovers and continuous improvements in process and quality performance.

How You'll Make a Difference

• Monitor and control chemical processes, including washer operations, the reverse osmosis unit, and effluent treatment, making adjustments as necessary to maintain operating, quality, and legal standards.
• Perform chemical inspection tests and monitor product quality through manual checks and automated systems, investigating out-of-specification results and taking corrective action.
• Carry out planned and daily maintenance on process-area machinery and systems, restore repaired equipment to working order, support maintenance and conversions, and maintain required maintenance records.
• Maintain appropriate operating conditions for metal coating solutions, coolant water, and copper lubricant to support optimum equipment performance, can flow, and production of quality cans.
• Identify and isolate mechanical or process defects, communicate quality and equipment issues to the appropriate Shift Manager or Team Leader, and exchange relevant information during shift changes.
• Follow health, safety, PPE, environmental, hazardous-waste, spill-response, emergency, housekeeping, and applicable ISO management-system requirements while contributing to process and quality improvements.

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:

• NVQ Level 3 qualification in a chemical or engineering principle (mandatory)
• Minimum of two years of relevant experience in a chemically controlled process and engineering environment (mandatory)
• Mechanical and maintenance background (mandatory)
• Ability to work effectively with or without supervision and contribute positively within a team environment.
• Computer skills and the ability to read, write, calculate, understand written and verbal instructions, and communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work safely in a noisy production environment, with hazardous materials and in confined spaces, using prescribed PPE and working 12-hour day and night shifts on a rota basis.

Shift pattern: 4 on - 4 off, 39 hours per week. Every cycle includes 7 rotations 4 on – 4 off followed by 18 days off (fixed vacation days included). This shift pattern covers also 1 training day, 2 maintenance days, and 1 crew day.

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.