Quality Specialist Launch Team

About the role

Join Ball’s Launch Team as a Quality Specialist and drive the start‑up performance of new builds, new lines and line conversions. You will ensure that products meet quality, food‑safety and environmental standards from the first production run through to stable operations.

Key responsibilities

• Achieve efficiency and spoilage targets for all new‑build and conversion projects, following approved start‑up curves.
• Lead quality performance during start‑up, delivering compliant, specification‑conforming product.
• Monitor processes, materials and outputs to guarantee product quality and food‑safety compliance, taking immediate corrective action when needed.
• Oversee inspections and audits, ensuring local quality teams execute process checks, material inspections and finished‑product audits.
• Maintain, calibrate, validate and monitor all gauges, inspection devices and measurement equipment.
• Track quality trends, identify early variation signals and initiate corrective or preventive actions.
• Support the Plant Quality Manager with ISO, HACCP and other regulatory or customer‑driven food‑safety systems.
• Execute SOPs, SPC and other quality‑management tools to ensure process consistency during ramp‑up.
• Train production and quality staff on process understanding, defect prevention, inspection standards and food‑safety practices.

Required profile

• Proven experience in a quality role within manufacturing, preferably with new‑build or line‑conversion projects.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve efficiency, spoilage and quality targets.
• Strong understanding of environmental regulations and chemical‑usage optimisation.
• Excellent analytical skills to interpret quality trends and KPI data.

Required skills

• ISO standards implementation
• HACCP food‑safety systems
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Calibration and validation of measurement equipment
• Quality audits and inspections
• Food‑safety compliance

What we offer

• Opportunity to work for a global leader in sustainable aluminium packaging.
• Career development within a award‑winning, innovative company.
• Collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement and environmental stewardship.