1st Shift Production Tool Maker
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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.In this position, the Production Tool Maker will set up and maintain production of automotive stampings in Eyelet and/or Progressive stamping presses such as Minster presses up to 200 ton, Baird & Asahi presses, and Waterbury Farrels to produce precision metal parts, instruments, and tools.Key Responsibilities* Follow all established safety, health and company policies, procedures, housekeeping and recognized practices* Install/setup of existing tooling & adjusting print tolerances for high volume production runs* Set up and adjust tooling in production equipment, submit first piece samples, maintain tool logs, production documentation, and follow quality procedures* Perform maintenance on tooling and use toolroom equipment to sharpen or fabricate tooling as required* Diagnose machine failures and other mechanical problems. Take necessary corrective repair action in a timely manner.* Assist and instruct machine operators and apprentices to maintain production.* Operate production equipment as required.* Ensuring products meet quality standards and make necessary adjustments* Trouble shooting, tool maintenance and repair throughout the run* Asist in corrective actions and improving tooling where necessary* Developing new tooling for new parts* All other duties as assigned by manager