Opex Leader

**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 21,000 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**:
The OpEx leader will be a key member of Continuous Improvement team, reporting to the Plant manager. This role will have strategic and tactical responsibilities to engage, facilitate and guide the Division and Plant Leadership Teams in designing a Lean & CI approach that encourages and develops an improvement culture throughout all business processes, at all employee levels.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Facilitating policy deployment process (Hoshin Kanri) to identify plant vision, mission, goals, objectives, and strategic initiatives for the next three years period together with Plant Management Team
- Developing project management and cost optimization governance in the plant, training and supporting project leaders to progress the projects by considering minimum project requirements.
- Planning, facilitating, and executing continuous improvement activities by using Lean tools and techniques (VSM, 5S, SMED, PDCA, TPM, Problem Solving Techniques,...) to sustain performance
- Leading problem solving projects by training, coaching and facilitating teams to perform effective root cause analysis method
- Examining data sets from Manufacturing Execution and Quality Systems in order to find trends and draw conclusions about the information they contain by using statistical tools
- Managing plant better practices program, liaising with company continuous improvement network for both benchmarking internal and external best practices and roll out in the plant
- Preparing plant lean training program for cross-functional team members, training plant teams on Lean principles and tools, following-up training program together with Regional CI Manager

**Experience and skills required**:

- University degree education in Science, Engineering or Business
- Job related experience for minimum 3 years within a manufacturing industry
- Good understanding of LEAN tools and system and extensive experience of leading lean project management
- Good understanding of statistical process control and data analysis, Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certified
- Work collaboratively across departments as well with key stakeholders
- Fluent English

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 21,000 members worldwide. Our products range 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.

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.

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