Engineering Intern

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 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 Engineer Intern, Operations will provide coordination and alignment to engineering goals. This position will report directly to the Engineering Manager, Gallatin.

Critical Skills:

• Leadership - organizational change agent with the ability to identify, communicate & implement positive change challenging the status quo with courage; delivers outstanding performance through others.

• Influence - ability to drive improved employee engagement at all levels

• Project Management - ability to utilize the ITW toolbox to plan, map and execute on projects within budget & timing

• Technical - health & safety certification, ability to maintain & improve OHS compliance, metrics & management systems

• Other tasks and duties as assigned.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Applying knowledge of process design, fabrication, assembly, tooling, and materials; conferring with equipment vendors and soliciting observations from operators.

• Improves manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.

• Identify and prioritize process improvement opportunities throughout the manufacturing facility.

• Optimize production processes to deliver cost savings, improve quality, and support new product introduction.

• Provides manufacturing decision-making information by calculating production, labor, reviewing production schedules, estimating future requirements.

• Develops manufacturing processes by studying product requirements; designing, modifying, and testing manufacturing methods, equipment and maintained quality.

• Utilization of lean techniques to reduce waste and improve productivity. Lead production & Engineering team on continuous improvement projects.

• Provide technical support for manufacturing operations, quality, and troubleshooting.

• Prepare product and process reports by analyzing information and trends.

• Prepare capacity reports with data analyzation and submit capital expenditure requests, including cost analysis and justification including anticipated ROI schedule.

• Utilizes problem-solving tools in various situations, including root cause analysis, flowcharts, and fishbone diagrams.

• Evaluate and improve on processes in manufacturing systems. Improve process capability and production volume while maintaining and improving quality standards.

• Track and monitor process and spent a large amount of time on the floor during all operational hours with a deep understanding of each area.

• Plan, co-ordinate, lead, and participate with various multi-disciplined teams addressing objectives associated with the stamping process, productivity, volume outputs, scrap and rework, quality, safety, and delivery commitments to optimize a profitable operation.

• Conduct appropriate training, as needed of other personnel about procedures, processes, and equipment.

• Lead the cross-functional team on Process FMEA's for new and existing product launches.

• Perform other duties as required.