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Back End Team Leader

Ball Corporation

Ball Corporation

Software Engineering
kettering, uk
Posted on Aug 29, 2025

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.

Position overview:

The Back End Team Leader will lead the operator's team to provide high-quality cans with the lowest spoilage at required production efficiencies and provide cans in a safe, low, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable, highly efficient manner both from the Tooling and Machinery.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading team briefs and communicating daily and monthly KPIs to the teams
  • Providing regular reports to shift manager
  • Supporting teams in solving problems with the close cooperation of the engineering team and front end team leader
  • Control usage of parts/tools and maintenance spend to budget
  • Provide innovative sustainable, cost-saving plans
  • Develop maintenance and overhaul procedures for back end equipment
  • Work with maintenance software/schedules
  • Understand and support the printing process, inside spray and necker process
  • To plan and manage back end and downgauging projects with the engineering team
  • To manage improvement projects in the back end
  • Support and Implement SMED activities for improved efficiency

What are we looking for?

  • People management experience
  • Proactive team leader and analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Attention to detail, including the ability to spot defects or mistakes
  • Ability to follow and set up new processes
  • Sound communication skills, ability to clearly explain processes
  • Basic understanding of the lean framework
  • Statutory H&S requirements

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.

No agencies please.

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