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Guided by our core values -\"We Care. We Work. We Win.”- we create a culture where every voice matters, and every idea drives progress.\nTogether with our global employees, customers, and partners, we’re turning bold sustainability goals into reality and shaping a future we can all be proud of.\nCreate a new future. Apply Today.\nPrimary purpose of the position:\nSupervises the plant quality function as directed.\nEssential Responsible Areas:\nResponsible for maintaining a safe and secure work environment. This includes correcting unsafe acts/conditions, facilitating monthly safety meetings, performing monthly safety inspections, and investigating accidents, as required.\nSupports development, implementation, maintenance, and ongoing improvement of the food safety system.\nThe plant quality assurance supervisor, if designated is to be trained and certified in the food safety system and oversees its development, implementation, review and maintenance. Provides for trained backups in the case of absence of key food safety system employees.\nSupervises the plant quality assurance function as directed.\nFacilitates a \"quality conscious and pride in quality\" attitude within the department.\nFacilitates the installation and maintenance of established quality assurance procedures.\nMaintains a gauge and inspection equipment control system to provide and calibrate gauges and instruments as required. This includes the initiating of requisitions to ensure compliance with group standards.\nMaintains inspection reports and quality complaints to determine defect trends in materials and products, and initiates corrective action if necessary through appropriate line or staff heads.\nMaintains reports as necessary, evaluating the quality of designated products, in conformance with established quality assurance procedures.\nSchedules, or assists in scheduling, inspection personnel to specific assignments to ensure the most effective utilization of manpower.\nFacilitates quality assurance training and development programs.\nSupervises or assists in the inspection or testing of various materials and products to determine compliance with specifications.\nMay train employees on SPC interpretation. \nServes as coordinator for Infinity SPC system. Maintains hardware and troubleshoots software issues, if applicable. \nMay work with in-house ink representative to develop approved colors for new and existing labels. \nMay facilitate the administration of an effective graphics system. \nAccesses, inputs, and retrieves information from the computer. \nInitiates, reviews, masters, and follows all standard operating procedures (SOPs) for area of responsibility. \nEstablishes and maintains an employee relations climate of trust and confidence that will discourage third party interference; or establishes and maintains an employee relations climate of trust and confidence with employees, their union stewards and representatives which will promote achievement of plant and company goals. \nEstablishes and maintains effective work relationships within the department, the division, the group, and the company. Includes ability to handle stress and to interact with others so as to establish and maintain a positive and productive work environment and minimize personal conflicts. \nWhile the regular working cycle of this position is usually 5 days on (Monday-Friday), this job may include working weekends (Saturday and Sunday); or scheduled 12-hour shifts, rotating days and nights, Monday through Sunday. Working hours may vary as specified by management. Incumbent must be able to work overtime on a regular basis and/or be on call as directed by management. \nMaintains awareness and complies with hazardous waste management and other environmental management requirements in the workplace by attending scheduled training sessions. \nCommunicates with the emergency coordinator (EC) or Environmental Focal Point/Environmental Manager (EFP/EM) regarding environmental management activities \nUnderstands and responds effectively to EC directions during emergencies by being familiar with emergency procedures, equipment, and systems, as necessary. Implements contingency plan to the level required by the position. \nUnderstands, completes, and maintains environmental documentation for which the individual is trained, or as directed by the EC, EFP, or EM (i.e., inspections, labeling, record keeping, maintenance of equipment, etc.). Reports to the EC, EFP, or EM on the status of assigned responsibilities. \nComplies with established job safety practices, policies and procedures as specified in plant and corporate directives for the safe performance of the work assignment. \nRecognizes waste streams and minimizes waste generation, through prudent use of materials, proper disposal and segregation as directed during training or by the EC, EFP/EM. Understands and practices proper accumulation and storage requirements for wastes. \nComplies with environmental regulations when using, dispensing, or handling hazardous and non-hazardous materials and wastes.\nProfessional & Education Qualification\nHigh School Diploma or equivalent required.\nJob related experience for 1 year(s) minimum in a leadership role\nJob related experience for 5 years preferred \nAbility to apply intensive and diversified evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard plant quality assurance techniques, procedures, and criteria.\nMust be able to handle sensitive related and proprietary information in a confidential manner.\nPerforms such individual assignments as management may direct.\nAbility to negotiate with customers to promote or sell ideas or concepts.\nAbility to operate and functionally use a computer.\nAbility to perform basic mathematical calculations.\nMust maintain professional competence, ethical integrity, knowledge, and skills.\nWorking knowledge of the following areas: product specifications and customer needs and expectations, and generally accepted supervisory practices and procedures.\nMust follow company policies, procedures, practices, and standards of conduct as outlined in the Ball Corporation manuals.\nOther Requirements\nWorks in both office and manufacturing environments.\nThis position is exposed to occupational hazards, including but not limited to, high noise levels, physical obstacles, exposure to chemicals, etc.\nMust wear appropriate safety glasses, hearing protection, clothing, and footwear in appropriate areas and follow safety practices.\nMust be able to match colors.\nCompensation & Benefits:\nExpected Hiring Salary Range: $75,400 - 105,290 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.) \nThis role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan. \nPlease visit our \"Total Rewards\" page to learn more about Ball’s comprehensive benefits structure. \nOnsite Work Environment: This position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site. Travel and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations may be required. \nWhen submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role.\nBall Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation, or any other non-merit characteristic.\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.\nUnder Colorado, California, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania law, you have the right to exclude or redact age-related details-such as your date of birth, school attendance dates, or graduation dates-from your resume, cover letter, CV, or other supporting documents (e.g., transcripts, certificates). \nLegal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visa, now or in the future, for this job opening.\n* This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.\nNo agencies please.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8563,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"high_school","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","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":45,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.827,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":30,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["conf:3","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-15T07:52:55Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":105290,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ball-supervisor-quality-assurance","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ball-supervisor-quality-assurance.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-15T22:37:22Z","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":18714,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-16T00:00:00Z"}},"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-supervisor-quality-assurance"},{"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-supervisor-quality-assurance"},{"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-supervisor-quality-assurance"},{"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-supervisor-quality-assurance\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fball-supervisor-quality-assurance"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4242910}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"ball.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4242910},"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. 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