Shift Manager

Ball Aerospace; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Ball Corporation in Milton Keynes is seeking a Shift Manager to run a 12-hour shift, with a focus on safety, quality, production and spoilage control. You will lead the shift team and coordinate with maintenance and engineering to optimise daily performance.

Key activities include enforcing safe practices, meeting production targets, investigating defects, driving continuous improvement, reducing waste and ensuring consistent equipment settings and training for the team.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-speed production, preferably in food and drink.
• Strong leadership, delegation, communication and organizational skills.
• Training in management systems.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the shift on a 12-hour cycle, ensuring safety, quality, production and spoilage targets are met.
• Enforce safe working practices and maintain high housekeeping and safety standards.
• Investigate equipment and process defects and drive corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvement to reduce costs and minimize downtime.
• Standardize equipment settings and ensure training for the shift team.
• Monitor performance and communicate results to stakeholders; take corrective action as needed.
• Manage material usage to minimise waste and organise shift training and feedback.

Skills

Management systems training

High-speed production experience

Leadership and communication

Lean Six Sigma

5S and Kaizen

English proficiency

Job description

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Shift Manager

Company: Ball Corporation

Location: Milton Keynes, GB, MK15 0DA

Date: 25 Sept 2026

Job Category: Manufacturing/ Operations

At Ball, integrity and trust are the foundation of who we are. Guided by our core values —"We Care. We Work. We Win."— we create a culture where every voice matters and every idea drives progress.
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!
Create a new future.

Position overview:

The Shift Manager will run a 12-hour shift and looking after safety, quality production and spoilage.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure safe working practices are adhered to at all times and good housekeeping and safety awareness is continuously improved in the work area and throughout the team.
• Meet Production, Quality, Spoilage and environmental improvement targets as set by the Senior leadership team, the Continuous Improvement teams and the Plant budget.
• Investigate and report equipment and process defects promptly and use the team and outside assistance to identify and undertake corrective action to prevent re-occurrence.
• Drive continuous improvements in the team to minimise the costs in the plant and liase with the engineering department to ensure all maintenance work is completed to their satisfaction and continually look for methods to reduce breakdowns.
• Ensure standardisation of equipment setting and operation to achieve the required specification and product quality.
• Promote and maintain good industrial relations, identify training needs for the team. Provide and organise training to ensure the team is competent in all aspects of their jobs.
• Monitor, control and communicate the performance of the team within and outside the team and ensure corrective action is taken, as required, for all equipment and operational problems/potential problems to continuously improve the operation.
• Ensure effective use of materials, identify programmes to improve usage and minimise waste.
• Ensure adequate training, Leadership motivation and corrective feedback to the Shift Team for who they are responsible.
• Actively seek and follow up on Shift Team’s ideas and suggestion and assist in driving change through continuous improvement in the plant.
• Operate effectively with other Shift Manager to control the overall performance of the plant.

What are we looking for?

• Training in management systems
• Previous experience in high speed production and experience in food and drink industry is desirable
• Good leadership, delegation, communication, organisational and influencing skills
• Lean six sigma, 5s and kaizen (desirable)
• Fluent in both written and spoken English

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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.
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