Production Technician

About the position

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging and aerospace solutions. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe! The primary purpose of the position is to perform various manual or mechanical production functions by operating, adjusting, and repairing production equipment to meet customer specifications. Performs tasks and provides services to support the plant’s production goals, overall business plans and objectives as directed. Must be able to accommodate swing shift schedule: Rome plant schedule is 5:45am/pm to 6:00pm/am, 3 days on/3 days off, rotate days to nights every 4 weeks.

Responsibilities

• Complies with established job safety practices, policies, and procedures as specified in plant and corporate directives for the safe performance of the work assignment.
• Supports and follows guidelines of the food safety system.
• Performs duties as required to ensure compliance with the plant’s quality standards.
• Performs various manual or mechanical production functions by operating, adjusting, and repairing production equipment to meet customer specifications.
• Disassembles, overhauls, and rebuilds production equipment under the supervision of a qualified maintainer.
• Performs troubleshooting on production equipment as required.
• Performs preventative maintenance on production equipment as required.
• Inputs data on a computer terminal to identify, label, and palletize finished products.
• Operates forklift during routine performance of duties.
• Conducts inspection of in-process or finished product to meet customer specifications.
• Responsible for replenishing supplies required for assigned area.
• Rotates through workstations as needed for coverage, relief, and training purposes as required in conjunction with on-the-job training.
• May operate can line briquetter, end line baler, and slug accumulator.
• Initiates, reviews and follows all standard operating procedures (SOPs) for area of responsibility.
• Supplies and maintains required hand tools.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or education equivalent required.
• Job-related experience for 1 year minimum.
• Troubleshooting skills/experience.
• Experience working in an industrial environment.
• Ability to apply standard evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard manufacturing and plant quality techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Ability to learn operating principles and nomenclature of all assigned equipment and products.
• Ability to learn nomenclature of all assigned equipment, products, and quality standards.
• Ability to learn to identify product defects.
• Ability to use hand and power tools.
• Ability to operate fork truck and aero lift.

Nice-to-haves

• May require forklift license.
• Working knowledge of machine mechanics.
• Works in manufacturing environment.
• This position is exposed to occupational hazards, including but not limited to, high noise levels, physical obstacles, exposure to chemicals, etc.
• Must wear appropriate safety glasses, hearing protection, clothing, and footwear in appropriate areas and follow safety practices.

Benefits

• Starting Hourly Rate: $31.46 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
• Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure.