Project Engineer

Company Description

Why is ITW a great place to work? We think and act like entrepreneurs, we embrace autonomy, make decisions, and take ownership. We are always focused on helping our people reach their full potential. Most importantly, we value our 5 core values that drive our decision making; integrity, respect, trust, shared risk, simplicity.

We offer competitive pay and benefits that supplement your life both inside & outside of work. We support your community involvement from financial gifts with our 3-for-1 matching program and volunteering opportunities with our strong partnerships with United Way and David Speer Academy. ITW Automotive Body & Fuel NA manufactures interior components and fuel housings for OEMs and their top-tier suppliers. Are you up to the challenge?

The Body and Fuel Division, within the Illinois Tool Work (ITW) Automotive segment, drives profitability by leveraging its innovative solutions and application engineering. Our Body and Fuel products are made up of fuel housings, door and safety handles, innovative Capless solutions, and EV charge ports for major OEMs around the world. We have multiple manufacturing locations across North America: Frankfort, Mokena, and Richton Park, Illinois as well as Saltillo and Aguascalientes, Mexico.

As an Enterprise, 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.

Responsibilities:

• Program management: Plans and formulates project timetable after defining customer needs.

• Communicates directly with customers (Automotive OEMs) and with global teams.

• Coordinates activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling and resolving engineering design and test problems reporting results and status as needed.

• Innovates creative product solutions to meet customer needs and works with internal patent department.

• Manages and develops suppliers in various fields of manufacturing concerning metal, plastic injection mold makers and rubber industries.

• Forms production, QA and engineering teams dedicated to specific phases or aspects of project such as technical studies, product design, preparation of specifications and technical plans and product testing.

• Reviews product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards and customer contract requirements and related specifications.

• Acts as facilitator to ensure commitments to customer are met in a timely manner and within budget.

• Maintains personal knowledge in product, application and processes appropriate to projects undertaken.

• Works with Sales to develop new business opportunities.

• Review drawing changes, deviations, and Engineering Change Notices

• Coordinates parts design and tool design activities per customer specification

• Responsible for financial budget for individual preproduction and development projects

• Follows IATF 16949 procedures if customer required and descriptions per the ITW handbook.

• Interprets engineering specifications

• Authors DFMEA's, PFMEAs and champions 8D problem solving activities

• Review RFQ package: Identify customer part numbers, create bills of materials, derive part weights, evaluate annual volumes, key dates, assembly plant locations.

• Develop BOM's (bill of Materials)

• Interpret customer specifications.

• Prepare customer reviews, technical presentations and open issues list.

• Develop design validation test plans.

• Develop and maintain tooling, assembly and test equipment financial plans and documents.

• Participate in regular APQP activities and meetings and AAR events.

• Create FEA reports.

• Lead customer, supplier and ITW tooling and product design signoffs and kick offs.

• Lead RFQ activities with tooling, automation and gauge suppliers.

• Nominate supplier: Tooling/Parts/Gauges/Automation.

• Develop packaging plans per customer requirements.

• Support customer build and launch activities.

• Monitor tooling, gauge and assembly concepts according to ITW standards.

• Maintain customer milestone timing in customer portals.

• Issue molding sample requests.

• Monitor serial part history.

• Monitor release of production to operations.