F/E Maintainer in Wakefield

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.

Position overview: Performs mechanical and engineering tasks to provide effective services to support the plant's production goals, overall business plans and objectives as directed. The Shift Pattern is 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.

Key responsibilities include:

• Complies and maintains established safe working practices, policies, and procedures as specified in plant and corporate directives, for the safe performance of the work assignment, and to report unsafe conditions as and when they arise.
• Supports and adheres to the guidelines of the food safety system.
• Performs duties as required to ensure compliance with the plant's quality standards.
• Performs various manual or mechanical production tasks by operating, adjusting, and repairing production equipment to meet customer specifications.
• Disassembles, overhauls, and rebuilds production equipment.
• Performs troubleshooting on production equipment as required.
• Performs preventative maintenance on production equipment as required.
• Inputs real-time data on a computer terminal.
• Conducts inspection of in-process or finished product to meet customer specifications.
• You will also be required to support in other positions within or below your pay grade, to support business needs on an ad hoc basis.

What are we looking for?

• Apprenticeship or relevant qualification in Engineering or Mechanical discipline.
• Pneumatics and hydraulics experience is essential.
• Surface grinding experience is preferable.
• Proven experience in an engineering or fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to interpret numerical data.
• Proficiency in the use of hand and power tools; forklift operation experience is an advantage.
• Good computer literacy, communication, and organizational skills.

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.