Production Control Coordinator

Company Description

Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW) is a global Fortune 200 diversified manufacturing company that delivers specialized expertise, innovative thinking, and value-added products to meet critical customer needs in a variety of industries.   ITW, with approximately 14.1 billion dollars in global revenues, operates 7 major segments with businesses in 57 countries that employ approximately 45,000 women and men. These talented individuals, many of whom have specialized engineering or scientific expertise, contribute to our global leadership in innovation. We are proud of our broad portfolio of more than 16,000 active patents. 

StampTech Fasteners TM Division Description:

The ITW StampTech Fastener TM Division serves the major OEMs and Tier suppliers in the North American automotive market.  The division supplies stamped metal fasteners and engineered fastener assemblies that leverage our deep-draw stamping technologies.  The annual revenue for the division is approximately $160M.  Locations include Gallatin, TN, Lexington, KY & Naugatuck, CT.  

The Division drives profitability by leveraging its innovative solutions and application engineering.  In addition to ITW’s industry leading research and development capabilities, StampTech Fasteners TM enhances our customers’ competitive advantage by maintaining advanced engineering and manufacturing facilities in North America, exchanging product, process, and benchmarking information with sister units worldwide and continually improving processes, material, and designs to ensure every product provides value and meets customer expectations.

Job Description

The production control coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day activity as it relates to ordering, scheduling, communicating order status, order expediting and overall work in process coordination.

Primary Key Responsibilities

• Counts and orders raw material daily
• Responsible for cycle counts of raw material and raw pressed parts (R-8, and P-8) 
• Creates and manages work orders
• Reviews productions data for work overruns and issues new work orders
• Reviews open work orders and closes jobs as needed
• Weekly scheduling for 20 production cells and heat treat
• Monitors schedule daily and adjust if needed
• Maintains and files shipper certifications
• Conducts Layered Process Audits as required
• Maintains internal and external component inventory for assembly
• Conducts and/or participates in meetings to receive and provide current information on production processing projects and activities when needed.
• Work with Customer Service as well as sales in satisfying customer demands
• Responsible for voiding or correcting WIP label inaccuracies.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Associates degree in Business or related field preferred
• 3-5 years of experience in a small to medium sized manufacturing production control environment
• Applicable experience with inventory control and quality management/TS
• Strategic and critical thinking, organizational and communication skills
• Experience in Automotive industry preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to interact effectively with team members, managers, co-workers, and customers
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize
• Computer proficiency; MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Must have excellent people skills and experience dealing directly with customers as well as outside vendors

PHYSICAL DEMANDS                                                                                          

• The physical demand described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essentials functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to fingers, handle, or feel, talk or hear; and smell. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop or crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 45 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee could be exposed to moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airb