Technical Specialist - Packing

Ball Corporation; Devizes; In loco; GBP 40.000 - 56.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Ball Corporation is seeking a Technical Specialist - Packing to drive improvements in packaging operations, collaborate with production teams, and support new product and process initiatives. You will help optimize process parameters, train operators, and contribute to cost-reduction efforts while maintaining safety and quality.

The role emphasizes hands-on technical excellence, cross-site collaboration, and continuous improvement to deliver high-quality products for customers worldwide.

Competenze

• Mandatory experience in a mechanical and automation-focused role in manufacturing.
• Desirable mechanical apprenticeship or equivalent qualification.
• Strong understanding of packaging processes and automation systems.
• Ability to coach and train others.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills; able to work across sites.

Mansioni

• Establish, maintain, optimize, and expand packing process parameters.
• Train operatives in packaging and automation.
• Initiate and lead process improvements and efficiency projects.
• Create and maintain technical procedures and visual work standards.
• Support process validation and new project development with R&D and other technical teams.
• Monitor consumables and contribute to cost-reduction efforts, support maintenance.

Conoscenze

Mechanical experience

Automation knowledge

Packaging process understanding

Coaching capability

MS Office skills

Formazione

Mechanical apprenticeship

Descrizione del lavoro

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.

Your Opportunity to Make an Impact

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:

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.

What Helps You Thrive In This Role

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).

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.