Technical Specialist - Packing

Ball Corporation; Devizes; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity & inclusion commitment

Job summary

Ball Corporation is seeking a Technical Specialist - Packing to drive best practices in the packing area, support production performance, and lead process improvements. You will work with production teams, technologists, and R&D to ensure safe operations, quality standards, and ongoing efficiency across the site.

The role focuses on optimizing packaging parameters, training operatives, and developing operator capability while supporting new product initiatives and cost-reduction efforts.

Qualifications

• Experience in a mechanical and automation-focused technical role within manufacturing.
• Mechanical apprenticeship or equivalent qualification.
• Strong understanding of packaging processes and automation systems.
• Experience in coaching, training, and sharing knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Establish, maintain, optimize, and expand process parameters in the packing area.
• Train operatives in packaging and automation processes.
• Initiate and support process improvements, changeovers, and efficiency projects.
• Create and maintain technical procedures and visual work standards.
• Support process validation and continuous improvement activities with R&D and other teams.
• Monitor consumable usage and support cost-reduction initiatives.

Skills

Packaging processes

Automation systems

Continuous improvement

Coaching & training

Microsoft Office

Problem solving

Education

Mechanical apprenticeship

Tools

Microsoft Office

Packaging equipment

Job description

As a Technical Specialist - Packing, you will help establish and maintain best practices across the packing area while supporting production performance, process capability, and operational excellence. Working closely with production teams, technical specialists, and technologists, you will drive process improvements, develop operator capability, and support new product and process initiatives. Your expertise will contribute to customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement across the site. How You'll Make a Difference The responsibilities below represent more than daily tasks. They are opportunities to support safe operations, maintain quality standards, collaborate with teammates, and contribute to the products and solutions trusted by customers around the world:

• Establish, maintain, optimize, and expand process parameters within the packing area to support stable and efficient operations.
• Train operatives in packaging and automation processes through both practical and theoretical instruction while assessing their skills and knowledge development.
• Initiate and support process improvements, changeovers, and efficiency projects that enhance operational performance and customer satisfaction.
• Create and maintain technical procedures, methodological instructions, and visual work standards to ensure consistent process execution.
• Support process validation, continuous improvement activities, and new project development in collaboration with R&D and other technical teams.
• Monitor consumable usage, contribute to cost-reduction initiatives, support preventive maintenance activities, and identify potential technical limitations impacting customer requirements.

  We're looking for individuals who take pride in creating quality products, solving challenges, and keeping operations moving forward. Here are the skills and experiences that will help you succeed in this role and contribute to the manufacturing excellence that powers our business every day:

• Previous experience in a similar mechanical AND automation-focused technical role within a manufacturing environment (mandatory)
• Mechanical apprenticeship or equivalent mechanical qualification (desirable)
• Strong understanding of packaging processes, automation systems, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Ability to develop others through coaching, training, and technical knowledge sharing.
• Good computer literacy, including the effective use of Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong problem-solving, process management, communication, and technical learning capabilities, with the ability to work collaboratively across multiple sites when required.

Working hours: 40 hours per week (8 hours per day).

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!, At Ball, every role on the plant floor contributes to something bigger. Learn how this opportunity will allow you to grow your skills while helping deliver safe, high-quality products that make a difference for our customers, communities, and planet, 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. 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.