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 and specification‑conforming product.
• Monitor processes, materials and outputs to guarantee food‑safety compliance and take immediate corrective action on deviations.
• Oversee inspections and audits, ensuring local quality teams execute process checks, material inspections and finished‑product audits.
• Maintain, calibrate, validate and monitor 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, with a record of delivering efficiency, spoilage and quality improvements.
• Strong knowledge of environmental and food‑safety regulations applicable to aluminium packaging.
• Ability to monitor processes, analyse data and implement corrective actions quickly.
• Experience leading audits, inspections and training programmes.
• Detail‑oriented mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

Required skills

• ISO standards implementation and maintenance.
• HACCP food‑safety system knowledge.
• Statistical Process Control (SPC) application.
• Calibration, validation and maintenance of gauges and measurement equipment.
• Quality trend analysis and data‑driven decision making.
• Conducting and managing quality audits and inspections.
• Process monitoring and control in a manufacturing environment.