Production Group Leader

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

Job Summary
Managing, coordinating, supervising, and training groups. Planning daily activities and delegating tasks. Clearly outlining goals and ensuring group members understand what's expected of them.

Primary Key Responsibilities

• Knowledge of the area and other processes that are affected. This will include learning the scheduling process of parts and materials. Be involved in CQC’s and CAR’s
• Responsible for monthly OEE meeting and follow up on progress.
• Providing group sessions as well as one-on-one meetings where individuals can voice their concerns or questions.
• Educating and training new group members as well as support staff
• Knowledge of the overall process and how their department affects the process.
• Help and assist in all areas when someone is on vacation, in a meeting, out of office, etc.
• Help in scheduling and changeover of presses or area operation
• Ensure operational plans from fast response board are carried out
• Assist with all CQC’s in area
• Run OEE meetings and follow up on actions taken
• Monitor breaks and lunches of employees in assigned area of plant
• Communicate and monitor Email to support business decisions
• Support completion of accurately filing out time sheets
• Keep BUL’s aware of situations that are difficult of uncomfortable
• Help and assist in all areas when someone is on vacation, in a meeting, out of office, etc. 
• Monitor dangerous weather situations in absence of supervisor
• Make sure vacation and sick days are covered with other employees
• Support reassignment of resources and/or employees to meet business needs
• Knowledge of and support of the emergency evacuation plan
• Support the completion of Accident and Incident reports
• Ensuring health and safety regulations are always obeyed.
• Daily 5S responsibilities and other duties including 5S and LPA audits.
• Other tasks and duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Multiple years of related manufacturing experience
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
• Experience with operating a forklift
• Strong computer knowledge; Proficient in Microsoft Suites
• Great organizational and time management abilities.
• Attention to detail.
• Effectively communicate in a professional demeanor when dealing with the public or any level of employees. 
• Ability to safely work in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to work in a team environment or independently
• Ability to work over