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.

The Header Threader Team Leader will be responsible for assisting team members with technical issues or advanced problems while operating complex cold heading machine equipment. Tasks include, but not limited to: setup, adjust and operate part forming equipment, making machine adjustments keeping very close tolerances, and performing minor repairs while working in a safe, efficient and high quality manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Understands, follows, and enforces all established safety, health and Company policies, procedures, and recognized practices
• Conduct training of new employees and coach existing employees
• Assign work to employees and ensure it is executed in a timely manner
• Provide feedback to Manager on EE issues, concerns, performance, etc
• Escalate production and personnel issues to manager as needed
• Read and interpret blue prints
• Maintain machine and tooling lubricant and follow all preventive maintenance practices
• Coordinate with the toolroom for tooling needs and needs of the machines and other equipment
• Set-up and tear down set-ups on Headers & Threaders, perform tooling changes, and perform minor repairs to equipment
• Load stock onto de-coilers and perform coil welds
• Verify material usage per standards
• Complete and sign-off on all paperwork.
• Make frequent on time SPC checks on products being produced from established quality standards
• Communicate processing information to designated personnel on incoming shift
• Operate a forklift or hand truck.
• Maintain work area to acceptable safety and housekeeping standards
• All other duties as assigned by manager

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent along with 5-7 years of manufacturing experience is required
• Mechanical aptitude
• Experience with operating a forklift
• Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices
• Effectively communicate in a professional demeanor when dealing with the public or any level of employees.
• Demonstrate good problem-solving skills and possess communication skills.
• Basic computer skills
• Ability to work overtime

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• 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 essential 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 is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The employee could be exposed to extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• Safety toed with slip resistant shoes, safety glasses and earplugs are required on the plant floor

ITW Culture & Leadership Expectations:

• Exemplify and embody the ITW Leadership expectations
• Able to thrive and collaborate in a decentralized and entrepreneurial culture
• Able to take a high level of accountability and ownership for personal and company performance
• Able to communicate both verbal and written with clarity and simplicity
• Exemplifies a strategic-thinking approach and process to product management
• Able to make decisions and use critical thinking and analytical approaches when weighing options

ITW is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

ITW is an equal opportunity employer. We value our colleagues’ unique perspectives, experiences and ideas and create workplaces where everyone can develop their careers and perform to their full potential.

As an equal employment opportunity employer, ITW is committed to equal employment opportunity and fair treatment for employees, beginning with the hiring process and continuing through all aspects of the employment relationship.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.