Front End Mechanic

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 21,000 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.

COMPETITIVE RATES OF PAY – above market rates

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

This role involves shift work – 12 hour shifts, days, nights and weekends

Purpose of the job:

To make good quality cans to specification

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

Bodymaker QC checks, water bath checks x2, work on BM breakdowns such as; short can issues, trimmer jams, unloader jams, redraw adjustments air leak faults and fix, misfeed issues, spec adjustments, polish/ring changes, know what ring does what, tool pack changes, startup sheets, xhatch punch/polish, coil perp and paperwork, bailer duty, attend washer stoppages, help on all 3 lines, housekeeping.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Professional & Education:

Mechanical background

Fully qualified engineer (desirable)

Previous experience

Worked in high speed production

Canning work experience (desirable)

Skills and competencies

Line awareness

Communication skill

Attention to detail

High work rate

Common sense

Personal attributes

Hard working

Dedicated

Enthusiastic

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 21,000 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.