Description

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum 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.

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.

Position Overview:

As the Aluminum Packaging Innovation Engineering Manager, you’re a key member of the Metal Innovation Engineering team, reporting to the Director, Innovation Metal Engineering. You will contribute to the success of Ball by leading, summarizing and reporting technical project work related to ends, closures and resealable beverage containers while providing supervisory responsibilities over a team of engineers.

Your Key Areas of Responsibilities Include:

• Work closely with the Innovation Design Manager, Metal Container Manager and Lab Manager to coordinate project work and create / maintain higher level updates and reviews with cross functional internal & external stakeholders.
• Responsible for leading, reporting, and stakeholder management of closure and resealable beverage packaging projects.
• Generate and maintain technical summaries, product overviews and project pipelines for frequently reporting out project status, organizational alignment and updating stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with Innovation leadership to set project priorities and ensure smooth workflow between Metal Innovation, Process Innovation, Non-Metal Innovation, Design, and pilot facility teams.
• Use of stage gate & project management tools such as MS project along with detailed documentation to lead cross functional collaboration or communication with areas such as Strategy & Marketing, Commercial, external customers and Operations & Engineering.
• Manage suppliers, 3rd party partners, and engineering teams to think systematically in order to identify root causes, track progress, identify fixes and overcome project challenges related to multiple substrates including plastic, metal and composites.
• Create new re-closable beverage packaging design as well as improvements to beverage ends and caps using multiple substrates or hybrid solutions and generate/execute various mechanical and process testing on new packaging.
• Work with design team to develop closure technology including tooling related to plastic injection, metal forming and composite materials as well as equipment configurations and sequences to create final products.
• Work with new and existing suppliers to create new or transfer existing processes, equipment and technologies to metal forming applications and needs.
• Create and document closure innovations into finalized Intellectual Property (IP), including patents and trade secrets.
• Make use of analytical and statistical evaluation tools such as DOE, FMEA, Cost Models, Statistically Relevant and comparison to control data.
• Create comprehensive engineering packages for Operations and Engineering to support new product production start-ups and minimize operation issues in a plant environment.
• Collaborate cross-functionally, provide support, and at times create quality tests, SOP’s, equipment documentation, tooling, material specs, safety procedures, etc.
• Lead engineering team to generate/support business cases for new products including evaluation of capital equipment, material usage, product efficiencies and other strategic initiatives.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering or other technical related discipline.
• 8+ years of job-related experience in a beverage container manufacturing engineering role.
• Experience in analysis of technical concepts, knowledge of inner-workings of heavy manufacturing equipment and understanding of metal forming, plastic injection, and composite materials.
• Demonstrated Skills in all of the following:
  • Metal Beverage packaging and closure requirements
  • Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Strong Leadership skills, with a demonstrated capability of making critical decision under pressure.
  • Strong ability to multitask and troubleshoot in a non-linear manner.
  • Project Management skills and the ability to provide big picture view of project details to leadership.
    • Experience using stage gate & project management tools (such as MS project).
  • Ability of overcoming roadblocks and enabling others with clear communication, troubleshooting, and support where/when needed.
  • Culture champion; can relate openly and working well with diverse groups.
  • Strong technical drawing, dimensioning (including GD&T), metrology, tool manufacture and machine knowledge.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Masters in Business Administration or Master’s Degree in Engineering

Compensation & Benefits

• Onsite Work Environment: This position is based in Westeminster, CO and requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site 5 days per week. Travel (10-20%) and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.
• Hiring Salary Range: $107,100 - $153,300 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
• This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
• Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, please visit our career site and "Total Rewards" page to learn more.

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles 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.

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