Line​/Production Mechanic

This role involves shift work 12 hour shifts, working days, nights and weekends. Your Opportunity to Make an Impact At Ball, every role on the plant floor contributes to something bigger. Learn how this opportunity will allow you to grow your skills while helping deliver safe, high-quality products that make a difference for our customers, communities, and planet:
As a Line Mechanic, you will be a key member of the Milton Keynes manufacturing team, supporting production goals and contributing to the overall success of the plant. Working closely with the Team Leader and Shift Manager, you will help maintain equipment performance, product quality, and operational efficiency. This role provides the opportunity to develop technical expertise while supporting the safe and reliable production of customer products.

How You'll Make a Difference The responsibilities below represent more than daily tasks. They are opportunities to support safe operations, maintain quality standards, collaborate with teammates, and contribute to the products and solutions trusted by customers around the world:

• Operate, adjust, and support production equipment to ensure high-quality cans are produced to required volume targets.
• Monitor ink levels and support efficient and accurate design changeovers.
• Complete machine cleaning activities and quality checks accurately and within requiredtimeframes.
• Follow established safety practices, policies, and procedures to ensure the safe performance of all work activities.
• Support food safety requirements and follow standard operating procedures within the area of responsibility.
• Perform preventative maintenance, equipment adjustments, repairs, and troubleshooting while maintaining effective working relationships across the department. We're looking for individuals who take pride in creating quality products, solving challenges, and keeping operations moving forward. Here are the skills and experiences that will help you succeed in this role and contribute to the manufacturing excellence that powers our business every day:
• Minimum two years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Apprenticeship in a Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering discipline or equivalent time-served engineering experience.
• Experience with preventative and planned maintenance activities.
• Ability toassist with equipment breakdowns, troubleshooting, and line conversions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly explain processes and collaborate effectively with others.
• Fluency in written and spoken English; printing experience would be advantageous. 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! Starting salary of 45,320 per annum.
• Annual bonus.
• Generous company pension contributions.
• Life assurance scheme.
• Overtime opportunities.
• Career progression and development opportunities.
• Sharesave scheme.
• Free onsite parking.
• Subsidised onsite canteen.

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation. 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. Job Grade:
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