Production Technician
Position Overview
The Production Technician role involves running and monitoring specific equipment on the production line in a safe and reliable manner. Key responsibilities include building fundamental technical skills, developing process discipline, and learning the basics of equipment performance and quality checks. This role focuses on operational experience, troubleshooting, quality assurance, and safety.
Competencies
Operational Experience: Ability to handle day-to-day operations of production machinery, ensuring the production process runs continuously without interruptions.
Limited Troubleshooting and Preventive Maintenance: Ability to identify issues, perform basic troubleshooting and preventative maintenance tasks, use hand tools and power tools for maintenance tasks and repairs.
Quality Assurance and Inspection: Conduct quality checks to ensure products meet specified standards and record results accordingly.
Safety Understanding: Understands the importance of safe work practices and follows procedures diligently.
Literacy and Comprehension: Proficient in reading, writing, and comprehending written materials clearly in the local language relevant to the role.
Effective Communication: Ability to communicate and report issues effectively with coworkers and internal leadership team.
Attention to Details: Keen attention to detail to ensure all aspects of production meet high standards.
Time Management: Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively.
Continuous Improvement Mindset: Observes inefficiencies and contributes ideas to improve safety, quality, or flow.
Skills
Mechanical aptitude and understanding of mechanical systems and tools.
Visual and basic measurement tools, knows how to perform basic inspections and interpret results.
First-level stop response, can identify and assist in resolving simple line stops or alarms.
Basic Troubleshooting of common mechanical & graphics issues to minimize downtime.
Flexibly and learning agility to rotate between machines, switch between different tasks, ensuring smooth workflow and adaptability.
Start-up/shutdown procedures, understands and follows step-by-step operation instructions, following safety protocols and maintaining production quality.
Basic computer skills, understands how to use digital tools and systems for communication and task execution.
Accountabilities
Operate assigned equipment following standard procedure, ensures safe and stable operation of a specific machine or process step, escalates issues when needed.
Follow safety protocols and report unsafe conditions, adheres to all safety standards, uses PPE properly, and participates in safety audits or checks.
Identify and report equipment or process abnormalities, recognizes unusual equipment behavior or process deviations and informs team leads.
Support basic troubleshooting and cleaning tasks (Housekeeping), assists in resolving minor stops and performs regular cleaning or checks under supervision.
Perform visual and dimensional quality checks, executes basic in-line inspections using tools or visual standards and reports non-conformities.
Minimize material waste through correct handling and operation, operates with care to reduce spoilage.
Participate in on-the-job training and learning activities, builds knowledge of upstream/downstream process impact, equipment setting, and quality drivers.
Contribute to continuous improvement and problem-solving activities, maintain clear, organized work area and suggests improvements to routines or ergonomics.
Qualifications & Experience
Production Technician I: No experience required.
High School Diploma or Equivalent.
Basic computers skills.
Compensation & Benefits
Starting Hourly Rate: $26.15.
This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
Please visit our "Total Rewards" page to learn more about Ball's comprehensive benefits structure.
Physical Environment And Working Conditions
Hot/Cold working conditions.
Loud /Noisy environment.
Standing and walking for prolonged periods of time.
Climbing (stairs, and other equipment as necessary).