Training Manager in Wakefield, United Kingdom

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 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:

As the Training Manager you will report to the Production Manager, and contribute to the success of Ball by coordinating technical and operational trainings in the plant. Training Manager will work with the production manager, shift managers and team leaders to prioritise and plan training for employees based on skills gap and production needs. Support any continuous improvement projects.

Key responsibilities include:

Define and own training plans to ensure that the operations team are fully skilled and preparedfor new lines/major capital projects/process changes.

Lead induction process for new employees, and cooperate with other departments to ensure the effective training of new starters.

Coordinate training of new starters in the plant and other plants if required; this includes cooperation with sisters plant training managers.

Responsible for the identification of training needs and defining skills standards by role in cooperation with production teams and HR.

Organise training based on business needs and to cover skills gaps in cooperation with production teams and HR; create and update the training plan and skills matrix.

Manage lean enterprise training process on-site to provide proper support to the teams in terms of improvement process implementation.

Contribute to capability assessment, technical skills assessment and training KPIs.

Responsible for the management of training reports.

Manage plant operational trainers (select, manage, develop) and organise with EMEA Technical Training Manager suppliers training (i.e., camera, I-Trax, gauges etc.).

Involve in continuous improvement projects.

Experience and skills required:

Training qualification or experience in similar roles

Lean management experience

Process and quality management

Project management skills

Analytical skills, ability to work with KPIs

Fluent in English

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 21,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium 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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