Apprentice - Mechanic

Description

Job Summary: Operate palletizing and strapping machinery, ensuring product quality and compliance with safety, health, environmental, and efficiency objectives. Key Responsibilities: 1. Teamwork to achieve production, efficiency, and quality objectives. 2. Machinery maintenance and product quality control. 3. Compliance with safety, health, and environmental standards. 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. **PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:** -------------------------------------------- * Operate and manage palletizing and strapping machinery according to company specifications and requirements, adhering to the company's established objectives for safety, health, environment, quality, and efficiency. **RESPONSIBILITIES:** ---------------------- * Collaborate with shift team members to achieve the company's required production, efficiency, and quality objectives. * Maintain machinery, auxiliary mechanical equipment, and facilities within the assigned area in optimal working condition. * Ensure finished pallets meet the requirements and specifications of the manufactured product. * Perform quality control checks on products and processes established for the assigned area. * Record controls according to internal procedures. * Report identified deficiencies. * Inform Shift Supervisor or Team Leader of potential foreign cans found during line cleaning activities. * Perform work in accordance with safety, health, and environmental standards and quality, hygiene, safety, and food defense procedures. **ACTIVITIES:** ---------------- * Operate the palletizer in compliance with established Safety, Health, and Environmental standards and quality procedures. * Palletize finished products using installed mechanical equipment. * Maintain order in the empty pallet storage area. * Keep the can-free zone clean and free of cans from previous lithography runs. * First-response team member under the self-protection plan. * Backup for quality controllers. * Perform shift handovers or substitutions as required by operational needs. * Support other colleagues as needed. * Report anomalies, deficiencies, or malfunctions affecting work performance, production, quality, or damaging products, machinery, or facilities to the immediate supervisor. * Maintain the assigned work area in perfect order and cleanliness. * Perform scheduled maintenance tasks for the assigned area. * Participate in factory-wide maintenance and general cleaning tasks as scheduled. * Perform quality and food safety controls established by company procedures for the assigned position. * Perform all tasks assigned within the area by the immediate supervisor, including data entry or recording to improve the information system, as well as those necessary for proper job performance and smooth company operations, following internal policies and procedures. * Proper handling of generated waste (e.g., separation of paper/cardboard from plastic). * Follow general guidelines to reduce consumption (e.g., turning off switches, not leaving taps running, efficient driving, etc.). * Report identified safety and health deficiencies. * Know and comply with the current year’s Occupational Risk Prevention Plan and Risk Assessment (including use of designated PPE, etc.). **INTER\-RELATIONSHIPS/INTER\-COMMUNICATIONS:** ------------------------------------------------ * With shift colleagues whose roles impact their duties, and with the same position in preceding and following shifts. **CORE COMPETENCIES / BASIC KNOWLEDGE:** ---------------------------------------- * Higher Technical Degree in Mechanics, Electricity, Quality, or related field. * Minimum 4 years’ experience in a similar role is recommended. * Basic knowledge of operation and handling of semi-automatic and automatic machinery and associated installations in the area. * Basic knowledge of pneumatics and mechanics relevant to the area is recommended. * General understanding of Quality (ISO 9001\), Environmental (ISO 14001\), Occupational Health and Safety (ISO 45001\), and Food Safety (ISO 22000 / FSSC 22000\) procedures applicable to the assigned position. * Basic knowledge of the production process. * Office software proficiency at basic user level. * Basic English language skills. * Responsibility, independence, and autonomy. * Coordination and teamwork. * Stress tolerance. 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 16,000 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.