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 Assistant Plant Manager is a high-impact developmental role designed to prepare a high-potential leader for a future Plant Manager position. This role provides strategic exposure, leadership development, and increasing operational ownership while building deep expertise in the can manufacturing process and cross-functional plant operations.
Key Responsibilities include:
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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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 Assistant Plant Manager is a high-impact developmental role designed to prepare a high-potential leader for a future Plant Manager position. This role provides strategic exposure, leadership development, and increasing operational ownership while building deep expertise in the can manufacturing process and cross-functional plant operations.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Learn and develop deep expertise in the can manufacturing process, equipment, and production flow.
- Partner with the Plant Manager to drive plant performance aligned with company goals.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives across production, engineering, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Champion safety, quality, and operational excellence through process improvements.
- Participate in strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities.
- Help manage plant costs and support efficient, cost-effective operations.
- Mentor and develop frontline leaders and supervisors.
- Support employee engagement and a positive, high-performance culture.
- Serve as Acting Plant Manager during absences.
- Ensure compliance with environmental, safety, and food safety standards.
- Collaborate with corporate and internal teams to align plant and business priorities.
- Take on increasing leadership responsibility through role rotations and an Individual Development Plan (IDP).
- Minimum 4+ years of manufacturing, operational excellence/continuous improvement experience in a dynamic international environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or related field (MBA preferred).
- Capacity to lead a team and build strong employee relations.
- Strategic thinker who connects day-to-day operations with long-term goals.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to implement practical solutions.
- Financial acumen with exposure to budgets and cost management.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
- Excellent communication and ability to influence at all levels.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and willing to challenge the status quo.
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.
#LI-MV1
#LI-Onsite