Production Manager

The purpose of the Production Manager role is to lead and manage continuous manufacturing operations to achieve exceptional performance in safety, quality, and efficiency. This role ensures that all processes comply with regulatory and company standards, and drives standardization across all shifts to maintain consistency, reliability, and best practices throughout the plant. The Production Manager fosters a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and employee engagement, empowering teams to operate at their highest potential and delivering sustainable operational excellence and consistent value to the business and its customers.,

• Ensure health and safety compliance, reinforcing key safety behaviors across all shifts.
• Drive standardization across shifts to ensure consistency in processes, quality, and operational excellence.
• Lead, coach, and mentor shift managers to maintain process compliance and quality at the source.
• Monitor and control plant performance using appropriate management indicators, proposing corrective plans to achieve safety, quality, efficiency, cost, and spoilage targets.
• Actively participate in plant management team initiatives to improve safety, quality, productivity, and cost.
• Build a high level of employee engagement and foster a culture of excellence and accountability.
• Ensure training and development programs are implemented, maintained, and aligned with global standards.
• Promote autonomous maintenance, equipment reliability, and preventive practices to maximize asset utilization.
• Ensure compliance with all company policies, standards, and Code of Ethics.
• Analyze production processes for cost and resource optimization, implementing improvements where possible.
• Encourage root-cause problem solving and continuous improvement using BOE-defined tools.
• Maintain positive working relationships with employees, unions, and peers, fostering trust and collaboration.
• Ensure flexibility in work schedules to meet production and operational requirements.
  Broad training in a related field usually acquired through college or work-related experience
• Job related experience for 4 year(s) minimum in an industrial environment with a focus on manufacturing.
• Experience managing teams in a continuous operation industrial environment.
• Green Belt or Black Belt Certification preferred.
• Ability to implement BOE standards, Gemba, 5S, and other operational excellence tools.
• Training and development skills, including mentoring, goal setting, and performance evaluation.
• Financial acumen: analyzing production costs, human resource utilization, and material consumption.
• Fluent English.
  At Ball, integrity and trust are the foundation of who we are. Guided by our core values -"We Care. We Work. We Win."- we create a culture where every voice matters and every idea drives progress.

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 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: Global Grade 13

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