Operator

**Do you want to work for a world-leading manufacturer who strives to build a better future through sustainability and innovation? Are you looking for a new challenge in a stable, fast-growing sector?****Join us, and build your career by helping us build the future.**We are a global leader in sustainable products with more than 21,000 team members worldwide. From infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups, and aerosol bottles, to aerospace solutions that enable our customers to have a deeper understanding of our planet and the universe. We produce all these incredible things with one unique purpose: crafting a better community, a better society, a better world.Moreover, each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. And everyone at Ball is an everyday champion, making a difference by doing what we love.We lead with our heads and our hearts and combine innovative thinking with a spirit of resiliency that keeps us moving forward in a relentless pursuit of new ways to make life, and the world, better. Whether we’re developing packaging that’s infinitely recyclable or aerospace innovations.** Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.****Primary purpose of the position**:Performs tasks and provides services to support the plant's production goals, overall business plans and objectives as directed.**Essential Responsible Areas**:- 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 the guidelines of the food safety system.- Performs duties as required to insure compliance with the plant’s quality standards.- Performs routine manual or mechanical production functions necessary to operate the production equipment to meet customer specifications.- Stages and maintains packaging materials and follows correct packaging/banding procedures.- Inputs data on a computer terminal to identify, label, and palletize finished products.- Accesses, inputs, and retrieves information from the computer.- Conducts inspection of in-process or finished product.- Responsible for replenishing supplies required for assigned area.- Performs record keeping duties as required under the direction of management.- May operate can line briquetter. Ensures briquetter is running properly. Removes all briquettes from the conveyor, stacks briquettes on pallets according to scrap class, and weighs and tags scrap pallets for shipment.- May operate end line baler and slug accumulator. Removes all bales and loads them onto trailer. Removes/replaces accumulation boxes for slugs, and weighs and tags accumulation boxes for shipment.- May operate can line palletizer and depalletizer.- May restack and load empty coil pallets for return to aluminum suppliers.- May prepare for shipment returnable drums, totes, and vendor return loads.- Performs clean-up, painting, and housekeeping duties.- Initiates, reviews, and follows all standard operating procedures (SOPs) for area of responsibility.- May be required to rotate among specific operator assignments within the department as needed. Relieves operators for breaks.- Supplies and maintains required hand tools.- May be required to go to customer(s) to troubleshoot equipment and/or finished cans.- Establishes and maintains effective work relationships within the department, the division, the group, and the company. Includes ability to handle stress and to interact with others so as to establish and maintain a positive and productive work environment and minimize personal conflicts.- Required work assigned schedule or 12-hour shifts, rotating days and nights. Monday through Sunday, working hours may vary as specified by management. Incumbent must be able to work overtime on a regular basis and/or be on-call as directed by management.- Communicates with the emergency coordinator (EC) or Environmental Focal Point/Environmental Manager (EFP/EM) regarding environmental management activities.- Understands and responds effectively to EC directions during emergencies by being familiar with emergency procedures, equipment, and systems, as necessary. Implements contingency plan to the level required by the position.- Understands, completes, and maintains environmental documentation for which the individual is trained, or as directed by the EC, EFP, or EM (i.e., inspections, labeling, record keeping, maintenance of equipment, etc.). Reports to the EC, EFP, or EM on the status of assigned responsibilities.- Recognizes waste streams and minimizes waste generation, through prudent use of materials, proper disposal and segregation as directed during training or by the EC, EFP/EM. Understands and practices proper accumulation and storage requirements for wastes.- Complies with environmental regulations when using, dispensing, or handling hazardou