Mechanical Front End Team Leader

Ball Corporation; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading packaging manufacturer located in Milton Keynes is seeking a Mechanical Front End Team Leader. This role requires a strong mechanical background, leadership experience in manufacturing, and involves managing a team of up to 7. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring quality and efficiency in production while adhering to safety practices. Expected salary ranges from £56,897.90 to £63,220.58 upon training completion. Shift work is required, including days, nights, and weekends.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Mechanical breakdown experience is essential.
• Understanding of tooling geometry and can forming process.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver high quality cans with minimal spoilage.
• Control tooling and maintenance spend to budget.
• Ensure safe working practices and improve safety awareness.

Skills

Team leadership

Mechanical engineering knowledge

Experience with hydraulic machines

Tooling design understanding

Proactive approach

Education

Engineering qualifications

Job description

Overview

Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging, invites you to advance your career and make a difference in your professional development and the community around the globe. Ball is proud to have received Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award. With over 16,000 global team members, we focus on endlessly recyclable aluminum cans and cups, and aerosol bottles to contribute to a better world.

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

Position overview

The Mechanical Front End Team Leader will organise and provide leadership to their team to ensure they deliver high quality cans with minimal spoilage, achieve required production efficiencies, and operate in a safe, cost-effective, environmentally sustainable manner, covering tooling and machinery aspects.

Responsibilities

• 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. World class manufacturing status is the ultimate goal.
• 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
• Salary: £56,897.90 increasing to £63,220.58 upon completion of the training matrix
• 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

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.

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