Shift Manager

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Company:
Ball Corporation

Location:

Sri City, AP, IN, 517588

Date: 1 Jan 2026

Job Category:
Manufacturing/ Operations

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!

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JOB TITLE : Shift Manager

The role of shift manager is to co‑ordinate people, production and equipment to ensure a safe, consistent, complying to quality specification, profitable and smooth running shift. This is achieved by a thorough understanding and awareness of the operation; customer requirements; excellent people skills; quick and effective decision‑making; and thorough planning, organising and follow up. Shift manager will effectively manage the full production and engineering operation on a shift basis and will be responsible for all Production, safety, and quality key deliverables in his shift.

He will continuously strive to develop his team’s technical mastery and operational skills through coaching and mentoring.

Shift Manager will lead one of the area teams in the plant, through which he will implement the continuous improvement activities in the area using lean tools such as 5S, TPM, SMED.

• Lead the production line operation in accordance with plant policies and procedures. Responsible to meet shift production, quality goals. Take full responsibility of the shift in terms of management of staff, management of production and quality targets and to ensure the smooth running of the production processes. Lead team in operating with a high level of efficiency, integrity and enthusiasm, striving to achieve excellence in all endeavors.
• Supervise the process and personnel in his team to ensure achievement of production targets through the minimizing of downtime and production losses etc. Responsible for shift schedule and planning including : manpower planning, work load assignments/rotations, employee training, employee vacations, employee breaks, overtime assignment, back‑up for absent employees, and shift rotations.
• Schedule and conduct shift meetings and plan for review meetings as necessary to ensure job assigned to individuals completed efficiently. Work closely with other Shift managers to ensure production handovers are effective communications tools.
• Ensures quality standards are maintained at all times and to minimize spoilage to target levels. Responsible for quality control in the shift and ensures and quality product is produced consistently. Coordinates adjustments as necessary during shift to produce product within specifications. Reject product outside of specifications, holds any production out of range for further inspection / approval as needed.
• Ensure standard of equipment setting and operating conditions are maintained to achieve the required product specification and quality. As part of this task, he periodically have walk around tours in production area, inspect the equipment and check Inspection / PM checklists randomly and ensure they are completed / maintained as needed.
• Investigate/report equipment/process defects promptly to enable corrective action to be taken. Communicate with other Shift managers / engineering department effectively. Report any deviations in equipment / follow‑ups through both verbal and written communication to all stake holders including Assistant Plant Manager.
• Lead daily Plant Morning meetings while in day shift. Communicate effectively for the issues related to safety, quality, Maintenance, and present it with supporting statistics to show the losses and get necessary resources / support allocated.
• Maintain housekeeping to the standard defined in the Housekeeping and Hygiene procedure to ensure a…