Manufacturing Line Operator - Final Product Inspector (FPI)

Ball Corporation; Kettering; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in sustainable packaging is seeking a Manufacturing Line Operator - Final Product Inspector to ensure quality standards are met. Responsibilities include conducting quality checks, monitoring processes, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Ideal candidates have proven experience in quality assurance, familiarity with relevant standards, and attention to detail. Join a diverse team committed to making a difference.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of GMP, FSSC, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and HACCP standards.
• Ability to apply plant quality assurance techniques, procedures, and criteria.

Responsibilities

• Maintain safe working practices and comply with environmental and safety requirements.
• Conduct pallet inspections and carry out quality checks.
• Monitor and escalate quality issues to the Quality department.

Skills

Attention to detail

Proven experience in a similar quality-focused role

Fluent in English

Basic computer skills

Job description

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:

The Manufacturing Line Operator - Final Product Inspector (FPI) will ensure that the Plant Quality Standards are met and adhered to, following the set Quality Requirements and Procedures.

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintain safe working practices (SEV) and comply with environmental and safety requirements. Report unsafe conditions immediately.
• Conduct pallet inspections, carry out quality checks, and monitor the manufacturing process.
• Monitor and escalate quality issues to the Quality department. Inform the Shift Manager / Team Leader of any issues affecting product quality during the shift.
• Make decisions on Non-Critical HFI Pallet disposition (Release, Sort, Scrap) and complete necessary paperwork, including label sign-off during QC holidays and shift changeovers.
• Perform audits, maintain 5S standards, WGLL, and change banders as required.
• Operate and maintain ticket printers, change tickets as needed.
• Operate Quality computer systems (SFOL / SharePoint / Viscan).
• Read and understand production plans and specifications, request pallets from the warehouse process.
• Promote quality improvement and preventative actions through continuous improvement activities to meet performance objectives.
• Support sorting activities when required.
• Undertake activities as directed by the Quality Supervisor/Manager.
• Stand in or cover for QC as needed.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience in a similar quality-focused role.
• Knowledge of GMP, FSSC, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and HACCP standards.
• Ability to apply plant quality assurance techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Attention to detail.
• Basic computer skills.
• Fluent in English.

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We actively encourage applications from all individuals regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.

Joining Ball means becoming part of a global team of over 16,000 members. Our products, from recyclable aluminium cans and cups to aerosol bottles, enable our customers to contribute to a better world. We value diversity and inclusion, which are the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. What we create may change, but the impact we make always remains.

Please note: The advertised job title might vary from the title on the contract due to local job title structures and global HR systems.

No agencies please.

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