Front End Operator

2 months ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom Ball Corporation Full time

**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**

**Primary purpose of the position**:Performs mechanical and engineering tasks to provide effective services to support the plant’s production goals, overall business plans and objectives as directed.
- Pneumatics and hydraulic experience is essential
- Surface grinding experience is preferable
- Good computer literacy skills
- Good communication and organisational skills
- Troubleshooting skills/experience
- Experience working in an engineering fast paced manufacturing environment
- Analytical skills to interpret numerical data and problem solving skills
- Ability to understand and adhere to operating principles of all assigned equipment and products
- Ability to identify product defects
- Ability to use hand and power tools
- Working knowledge of machine mechanics

Displays behaviours in line with Ball core values

**Essential Responsible Areas**:

- Complies and maintains established safe working practices, policies, and procedures as specified in plant and corporate directives, for the safe performance of the work assignment, and to report unsafe conditions as and when they arise
- Supports and adheres to the guidelines of the food safety system.
- Performs duties as required to ensure compliance with the plant’s quality standards.
- Performs various manual or mechanical production tasks by operating, adjusting, and repairing production equipment to meet customer specifications.
- Disassembles, overhauls, and rebuilds of production equipment
- Performs troubleshooting on production equipment as required.
- Performs preventative maintenance on production equipment as required.
- Inputs real time data on a computer terminal
- Conducts inspection of in-process or finished product to meet customer specifications.
- Initiates, reviews and follows all standard operating procedures (SOPs) for area of responsibility.
- Supplies and maintains required hand tools.
- To be an effective communicator with management and colleagues, reporting quality defects, unsafe conditions, manufacturing difficulties, suggesting ideas for improvements
- To promote improvements and preventative actions by involvement in continuous improvement activities to meet the key performance objectives and targets
- To maintain housekeeping standards to a safe and satisfactory condition, clean as you go process

You will also be required to support in other positions within or below your pay grade, to support business needs on an ad hoc basis

**Professional & **Education Qualification**

Preferably a manufacturing background in a high speed, high volume continuous process or similar experience

An apprenticeship or relevant qualification in a Engineering / Mechanical discipline

**Skills**

Proficient in the use of hand and power tools.

Ability to operate fork truck if required.

Possesses an interest in and an aptitude for mechanics.

Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 22,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups, and aerosol bottles, to aerospace solutions that enable our customers to have a deeper understanding of our planet and the universe.

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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