Chemical specialist launch team

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.

Your Opportunity to Make an Impact

At Ball, every role contributes to something bigger. Learn how this opportunity will allow you to grow your career while making a lasting impact on our business, our communities, and our planet:

How You'll Make a Difference

The responsibilities below represent more than daily tasks. They are opportunities to make a difference, collaborate with talented colleagues, and contribute to meaningful outcomes:

• Lead process performance and optimization activities during start-ups, new builds, and line conversions.
• Perform specialized process and chemical adjustments to improve efficiency, quality, and environmental performance.
• Drive troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex process and equipment-related issues.
• Provide technical leadership and support to ensure reliable operation of front-end processing equipment.
• Train and coach site teams in process understanding, performance standards, and autonomous operation.
• Support emergency breakdown recovery, size conversions, and capability building across manufacturing sites.
• Identify waste reduction opportunities and support continuous improvement and preventive maintenance initiatives.

What Helps You Thrive in This Role

We're looking for curious minds, collaborative spirits, and motivated professionals ready to make an impact. Here are the skills and experiences that will help you succeed in this role:

• Proven can manufacturing experience is essential, including at least 3 years of experience as a CPO or CPM.
• Degree in Chemical Engineering or a related discipline would be considered an advantage.
• Strong hands-on expertise with washers, wastewater treatment systems, soluble oil systems, filtration systems, and cooling towers.
• Demonstrated capability in equipment setup, troubleshooting, process optimization, and chemical process control.
• Ability to train, coach, and transfer technical knowledge to operational teams; Train-the-Trainer certification is advantageous.
• Experience supporting line launches, rebuilds, or conversion projects is preferred.
• Strong analytical skills, continuous improvement mindset, flexibility to travel extensively, and fluency in English.

Work Environment

Please note that this role can be based in any eligible Ball manufacturing location within EMEA. Hiring Range: Spain - 40,500 – 58,320 EUR gross per year. The final salary will be determined based on the candidate’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and market benchmarks. Depending on these factors, the actual offer may fall above or below the posted range. Incentive Plan: This position is eligible to participate in Ball’s annual incentive compensation program. Comprehensive Benefits Package: life and accident insurance, subsidized canteen, and employee assistance program.

If you have a disability and/or long-term health condition that impacts on your ability to access any of the information outlined in the job application process, please do not hesitate in letting us know, so that we can endeavour to provide it you in the most accessible format. please email jobs.emea@ball.com with your access request and somebody will respond to you within 3 business days.

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.

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