Graduate Operations Management Internship Kettering, England
Job description
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!
Position overview:
Our Graduate Program in Operations offers an insight into end-to-end processes of a cutting-edge global manufacturing company and will help you to gain practical skills that are in high demand within the industry and beyond. You will have an opportunity to work in our brand-new manufacturing plant in Kettering and get involved in an exciting start-up.
The program offers accelerated development on the job and through other channels over the course of 18 months. It includes assignments across a wide range of manufacturing departments and divisions including: Production, Maintenance, EHS, Quality, Human Resources, Continuous Improvement (CI/Lean), Finance, Customer Fulfilment, and Sustainability.
Once you complete the program, you will be eligible to apply for vacancies within your area of interest where you can continue to develop your career further.
This program is addressed to graduates with a university degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, or Business studies.
- Meeting goals set out at the start of the programme
- Completing all assigned tasks and assisting with day-to-day operations
- Participating in meetings, workshops, and other learning opportunities
- Observing and learning from experienced team members
- Gaining and applying knowledge of company policies, protocols, and processes
- Liaising with mentors, project coordinators and other senior team members to evaluate progress
- Following all company regulations, and health and safety codes
- Preparing documents and updating records
- Traveling to different locations across the region and participating in daily operations as required
Experience and skills required:
- Excellent communication written and verbal skills
- Teamwork; ability to work in multi-cultural and multi-functional teams
- Well organised and have a structured approach to work and study
- Superb attention to detail
- Self-starter; highly motivated and able to work independently
- Willingness to take responsibility and initiative
- Fast learner and oriented to self-development: curiosity to learn and create a new way of building and/or improving systems and processes
- Strong analytical skills and ability to proactively identify and resolve problems
- Flexibility; able to cope with fast changes within a growing company
- Proficiency in MS Office
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 22,000 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.
Please only apply if you are eligible to work in the UK, as we are unable to offer sponsorship.
