Quality Controller

Ball Aerospace; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainable aluminum packaging is seeking a Quality Controller in Milton Keynes. This role involves maintaining quality control processes, working 12-hour shifts while ensuring compliance with ISO standards. The position offers competitive pay and opportunities for advancement upon completing training.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years in a production/manufacturing environment.
• Ability to apply standard plant quality assurance techniques.
• Experience with quality control equipment.

Responsibilities

• Perform regular quality control checks.
• Control quality control equipment and its calibration.
• Monitor and improve quality control procedures.

Skills

Quality knowledge

Communication

Decision Making

Problem Solving

Attention to detail

Job description

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Quality Controller

Company: Ball Corporation

Location:

Milton Keynes, GB, MK15 0DA

Date: 20 May 2025

Job Category: Manufacturing/ Operations

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.

This role involves shift work – 12 hour shifts, covering days, nights and weekend work.

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

Salary - £37,000 per annum increasing to £39,500 upon completion of the first phase of the training matrix, with a further increase to £42,000 upon the second phase of the training matrix.

Purpose of the job

Perform tasks and provide services to support the plant's overall business plans and quality control objectives as directed, by way of performing controls regarding quality control equipment, and completing quality control checks.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

· Have quality knowledge and apply the company decisions about quality and improvement

· Regular quality control checks

· Perform controlling of quality control equipment

· Arrange inspection frequency in accordance with the situation of process, present quality problems, perform verification

· Have knowledge about and apply principals of ISO 9001, ISO 14001

· Be aware of, and improve quality control procedures and instructions

· Have knowledge on usage of testing equipment

· Have knowledge on, and follow-up the calibration state of quality control equipment

· Detect from which department the quality incompatibilities can arise, and inform and notify relevant unit operators, and Shift Manager

· Keep quality control equipment clean and use properly

PERSON SPECIFICATION

· Experience for 2 years minimum in a production/manufacturing environment

· Working knowledge of the following areas: product specifications and customer needs and expectations

· Ability to apply standard plant quality assurance techniques, procedures, and criteria in carrying out a sequence of plant quality assurance tasks

· Ability to operate and functionally use a computer

· Communication: Must be able to read and comprehend complicated materials and instructions and be able to communicate both verbally and in writing

· Ability to meet deadlines and to concentrate and pay attention to detail

· Decision Making and Problem Solving

· Ability to analyze and interpret statistical data in order to make recommendations

· Confidentiality: Must be able to handle and safeguard sensitive and proprietary information in a confidential manner

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.

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