Production Shift Manager

Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

11/28/2024

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.

Position Overview

The Shift Manager is responsible for building and leading an effective, cohesive and committed team, which will maintain maximum safety, quality, spoilage and production standards.

The Shift Pattern is 4 on - 4 off, 39 hours per week. Every cycle includes 7 rotations 4 on – 4 off followed by 18 days off ( fixed vacation days included ). This shift pattern covers also 1 training day, 2 maintenance days, and 1 crew day.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Being the ambassador of Ball’s culture, driving the right behaviours amongst all plant employees.
• Responsible for the production process as a whole in accordance with the planned performance.
• Responsible for material and tooling supply.
• Ensure job distribution and arrangement within shift.
• Effectively manage all areas of manufacturing (includes safety, quality, production, scrap, personnel issues, etc.)
• Prepare production reports.
• Take part in development and maintenance of the integrated management system.
• Undertake the responsibilities of Quality Control Manager and Mechanical Supervisor during holiday and night shifts.
• Try to isolate the defects that occur during production within possibilities, notify relevant units when required.
• Detect beforehand the problems that can avoid production and ensure them to be solved.
• Ensure cleanness of production areas and machineries, as providing all workers pay attention to this matter.
• Control availability, operable condition and proper use of the working clothes, footwear, individual and collective protective means by the personnel.
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

• Previous experience in a people leading role within manufacturing/industrial, 24/7 environment
• HNC in an Engineering Discipline.
• Problem solving/total quality skills
• Analytical skills to interpret numerical data
• Good understanding of modern lean manufacture technique - SMED, Kaizen 5S, Kanban, Structured Problem Solving, TPM/OEE, SPC, 6 Sigma etc
• Working knowledge of Health and Safety work practises
• Fluency in written and spoken English
  
  
  

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.