{"id":4242795,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ball-lineproduction-mechanic","title":"Line/Production Mechanic","company":{"id":1778705,"name":"Ball","domain":"ball.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ball-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Field & Service","role_family":"Field & Service","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Milton Keynes, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-30","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T12:22:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":14,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":14},"description":"At Ball, integrity and trust are the foundation of who we are. Guided by our core values -\"We Care. We Work. We Win.”- we create a culture where every voice matters and every idea drives progress.\nFurther 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!\nCreate a new future. Apply Today.\nPlease only apply if you have the right to work in the UK as sponsorship is not offered for this role.\nThis role involves shift work - 12 hour shifts, working days, nights and weekends.\nYour Opportunity to Make an Impact\nAt Ball, every role on the plant floor contributes to something bigger. Learn how this opportunity will allow you to grow your skills while helping deliver safe, high-quality products that make a difference for our customers, communities, and planet:\nAs a Line Mechanic, you will be a key member of the Milton Keynes manufacturing team, supporting production goals and contributing to the overall success of the plant. Working closely with the Team Leader and Shift Manager, you will help maintain equipment performance, product quality, and operational efficiency. This role provides the opportunity to develop technical expertise while supporting the safe and reliable production of customer products.\nHow You'll Make a Difference\nThe responsibilities below represent more than daily tasks. They are opportunities to support safe operations, maintain quality standards, collaborate with teammates, and contribute to the products and solutions trusted by customers around the world:\nOperate, adjust, and support production equipment to ensure high-quality cans are produced to required volume targets.\nMonitor ink levels and support efficient and accuratedesign changeovers.\nComplete machine cleaning activities and quality checks accurately and within required timeframes.\nFollow established safety practices, policies, and procedures to ensure the safe performance of all work activities.\nSupport food safety requirements and follow standard operating procedures within the area of responsibility.\nPerform preventative maintenance, equipment adjustments, repairs, and troubleshooting while maintainingeffective working relationships across the department.\nWhat Helps You Thrive in This Role\nWe're looking for individuals who take pride in creating quality products, solving challenges, and keeping operations moving forward. Here are the skills and experiences that will help you succeed in this role and contribute to the manufacturing excellence that powers our business every day:\nMinimum two years of experience in a manufacturing environment.\nApprenticeship in a Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering discipline or equivalent time-served engineering experience.\nExperience with preventative and planned maintenance activities.\nAbility to assistwith equipment breakdowns, troubleshooting, and line conversions.\nStrong communicationskills with the ability to clearly explain processes and collaborate effectively with others.\nFluency in written and spoken English; printing experience would be advantageous.\nWhat We Offer\nStarting salary of £45,320 per annum.\nAnnual bonus.\nGenerous company pension contributions.\nLife assurance scheme.\nOvertime opportunities.\nCareer progression and development opportunities.\nSharesave scheme.\nFree onsite parking.\nSubsidisedonsite canteen.\nBall Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.\nEach 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.\nPlease note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.\nJob Grade: Production on Pay Scale","description_format":"text","description_chars":4233,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Manufacturing","Brewing & Beer","Cleaning & Household Products"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-13T12:12:59Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":76,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.846,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":14,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:2","win:mid","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-13T15:05:03Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ball-lineproduction-mechanic","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ball-lineproduction-mechanic.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-13T15:05:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":30330,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1778705},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1778705"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fball-lineproduction-mechanic"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fball-lineproduction-mechanic"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fball-lineproduction-mechanic"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ball-lineproduction-mechanic\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fball-lineproduction-mechanic"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4242795}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"ball.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4242795},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}