**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!**
**Primary Purpose of this Position**: Manage Plant based Manufacturing Excellence Managers In the deployment of a Lean based Manufacturing excellence model to ensure standardization, operational excellence and significant value across SA region.
**What will you be responsible for?**
- Support and manage key assignments and improvement efforts as needed including deployment strategy, planning, training, coaching, problem solving, project management, people development and resource development.
- Facilitates change and supports deployment, adoption and sustainment of Lean thinking and a standard Lean-Based Management System within specific Ball region (NCA/SA/EMEA)
- Identify, clarify, and resolve barriers to achieving operational excellence in Manufacturing plants/Regional production groups.
- Lead multiple strategic and operational improvement projects from identification, inception, and analysis to implementation and sustainable execution that delivers Manufacturing cost savings.
- Drive successful evolution of and execution on Manufacturing Excellence Model to be the most competitive in cost, quality and service by continually driving for efficiencies in our processes.
- Deliver on the organization’s priorities, working closely with leadership in defining, scoping, launching, and implementing new initiatives. Collaborate with decision makers and stakeholders to minimize risk.
- Facilitates and makes complex decisions and recommendations under limited direction and uses a high degree of initiative and independent judgment.
- Build, develop, and grow business relationships vital to the success of the specific Ball Region manufacturing team.
- Manage risk by effectively and clearly communicating project effort, progress, achievements, problems and failures on a timely basis.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing by initiating best practice sharing and benchmarking within the Hub and outwardly to the Region by liaising with the other Sub-Regional CI Leaders.
**What are we looking for?**
- Completed Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing/Supply Chain/Engineering
- Experience in deployment of Lean methodologies in a manufacturing setting
- Leadership: Management and Leadership of others
- Project Management: Project Management
- Influence: Delivering results through influencing
- Computer Literacy: experience with Microsoft, Excel and PowerPoint
- Adaptability: Adapting style to effectively interact with different audiences (shopfloor to boardroom)
- Knowledge of:
- Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques
- Financial statements
- Coaching and training techniques
- Managing various stakeholders in a matrix organisation
- Language:
- Advanced/Fluent English (required)
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 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.