Coatings Technician

**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.**:
**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.**:
**Position overview**:
**Key responsibilities include**:

- Monitor quality control, report plant quality performance, report customer and supplier complaints, share information on coatings & inks situation.
- Full understanding of QC checks and frequencies within the manufacturing locations and required to report deviations from these if observed, to the EMEA Quality Managers.
- Support savings on coatings & inks in plants & at customers.
- Provide support for New Product Development on new and added value coatings.
- Lead and/or support coating related quality improvement programmes or Lean projects in Head Office or manufacturing facilities.
- Provide project and plant support for major projects.
- Ensure compliance with all manufacturing facility site H&S and Environmental requirements.
- Ensure Ball’s reputation as a quality supplier is maintained by using vigilance when attending manufacturing and/ or supplier facilities with regard to product and packaging defects.

**What are we looking for?**
- Technical degree (chemistry or equivalent) BSc level or more
- Technically minded
- Working knowledge of operation of all test, measurement and inspection equipment used in the QA function within the manufacturing locations
- Aware of regulatory requirements of coatings and testing necessary for approval
- Full understanding of qualification process for new coating materials
- Analytical skills, sound numerical and statistical background and good problem solving skills
- Computer literate and able to work alone and under own initiative
- Fluency in English language, in both oral and written form
- Ability to travel extensively across EMEA region

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.

No agencies please.