Plant Manager

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 Newsweeks 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader we have over 16000 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 Plant Manager leads the overall performance of a continuous operation manufacturing plant ensuring excellence in safety quality delivery cost and sustainability. Responsible for a strong positive culture by developing engaging and empowering a high-performing workforce fostering continuous improvement and operational excellence. This role ensures compliance with safety environmental and quality standards builds strong stakeholder relationships and optimizes plant efficiency to exceed organizational goals.

Key responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the overall safety performance in the plant by ensuring plant focus on programs procedures and KPIs in accordance with Ball safety programs. Leads a culture of excellence and continuous improvement in EHS behaviours across the plant.
• Provides oversight for the operations management team including production engineering maintenance quality and safety along with a strong connection to planning procurement supply chain finance and human resources.
• Ensures plant performance is closely linked to customer requirements product specifications and quality controls.
• Confirms the plant complies with all environmental regulations by maintaining effective environmental programs.
• Works collaboratively as a member of the plant leadership team to maximize efficiency of plant in terms of profit productivity and cost by providing direction and collaborating with central support functions including finance manufacturing excellence quality commercial engineering sourcing human resources health/safety communications legal and technical services.
• Aligns with Manufacturing Cost Controller/Finance and manages the plant budget cost per thousand and operating plans.
• Supports the achievement of plant-level KPIs in areas of environmental health & safety quality delivery cost people maintenance and sustainability. Collaborate with other plants in benchmarking and optimization in order to exceed Company objectives.
• Responsible for the selection training growth and development of shift and staff personnel to attain organizational goals.
• Supports positive employee relations in the plant and with local/national union leadership including leading and managing union negotiations in line with the aligned strategy if applicable.
• May be responsible for special projects related to other functional areas.
• Orchestrate activities assignments and projects to maintain optimal level of customer service for both internal and external customers.

What we are looking for

• Broad training in a related field usually acquired through college or work-related experience.
• Bachelor Degree in Engineering Business or Supply Chain (MBA-Preferred).
• Job related experience for 10 year(s) minimum.
• 5 years of manufacturing leadership experience (high speed manufacturing/packaging preferred).
• Highly Matrixed/High Growth Organization Experience.
• Advanced 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 16000 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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