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Back End Team Leader

Company:
Ball
Location:
Kettering, North Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Posted:
August 28, 2025
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Description:

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 Back End Team Leader will lead the operator's team to provide high-quality cans with the lowest spoilage at required production efficiencies and provide cans in a safe, low, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable, highly efficient manner both from the Tooling and Machinery.

Key responsibilities include:

Leading team briefs and communicating daily and monthly KPIs to the teams

Providing regular reports to shift manager

Supporting teams in solving problems with the close cooperation of the engineering team and front end team leader

Control usage of parts/tools and maintenance spend to budget

Provide innovative sustainable, cost-saving plans

Develop maintenance and overhaul procedures for back end equipment

Work with maintenance software/schedules

Understand and support the printing process, inside spray and necker process

To plan and manage back end and downgauging projects with the engineering team

To manage improvement projects in the back end

Support and Implement SMED activities for improved efficiency

What are we looking for?

People management experience

Proactive team leader and analytical and problem-solving skills

Attention to detail, including the ability to spot defects or mistakes

Ability to follow and set up new processes

Sound communication skills, ability to clearly explain processes

Basic understanding of the lean framework

Statutory H&S requirements

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.

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