Company Description

ITW Air Management, a business unit of Illinois Tool Works (ITW), a Fortune 200 company, is a leader in the design and manufacturing of high-performance industrial centrifugal blowers, vortex tubes and auxiliary equipment.  Air Management provides these solutions for a variety of industrial applications, including Food and Beverage, General Industrial, Electronics, among others.  Air Management is a manufacturing organization with a strong growth opportunity and is located in a beautiful setting in Blue Ash, OH, just north of Cincinnati.  

ITW is a leading diversified manufacturing company with over 100 years of history and over 800 individual business units. As a business unit of ITW, Air Management boasts a small company feel with the backing, benefits, and stability of a large-publicly traded corporation. We recognize the importance of customer service, technological innovation, and the key role our employees play in our success.

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning

• Partners with the leadership team to develop and execute Annual and Long Range Plans based on in-depth understanding of business and operations.
• Develop the vision, strategic plan and the annual tactics in collaboration with plant leadership to drive an optimized manufacturing strategy.
• Analysis of manufacturing productivity, capabilities, and capacity utilization to drive decisions.
• Lead the analysis and decision to manufacture a product in-house or purchasing it from an external supplier.
• Develop capital expenditure plans. Ensure compliance with company needs for capital investments and improvement projects and execute on all operational CAPEX projects.

Operational Planning / Management

• Working with local leadership, develops robust manufacturing and supply chain plans to establish procedures for maintaining high standards of manufacturing operations to ensure that products conform to established customer and company quality standards in cost, quality and responsiveness. 
• Drive best in class operations around quality, production efficiency, inventory management, and safety. Driving continuous improvement and waste reduction initiatives.
• Reallocates operation resources to align with ITW and Division goals. Ensures that the company has the manufacturing capabilities to meet and exceed all industry and customer requirements. 
• Manage target setting process- capacity planning/production planning/ forecasting
• Pro-actively direct the resolution of any operational, customer service, manufacturing, maintenance and plant services issues to ensure mimimum costs and prevent operational delays.
• Collaborate across the organization by working with regional and global manufacturing and sourcing functions to implement strategies and action plans that deliver the most efficient and effective supply chain and distribution.  Consistently reduces costs through productivity gains and souring improvements.
• Work across functions to resolve ERP issues and establish relevant process improvements.

Continuous Improvement / ITW Toolbox Implementation

• Leader of 80/20, USa, MRD, In-Lining and gets results (or Six Sigma, LEAN, etc., if external); demonstrated financial improvement.
• Define key performance metrics and monitor performance to exceed KPI targets. Actively adjust and implement changes necessary to drive best-in-industry performance to produce optimum operational results and P&L improvement.
• Drive consistent work place policies and procedures that are aligned with ITW approaches and develop key metrics to measure progress of initiatives.
• Coordinate resources to execute customer back innovation (new product) execution.

Team Leadership and Development

• Leads and develops talent to maximize individual, team and organizational effectiveness.  Fosters a culture of engagement and accountability, cascading vision, and creating goal alignment
• Use appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas and plans. Coaches through feedback, development planning and performance management
• Champion the effective use of change management principles, strategies and techniques to plan, implement and evaluate change.
• Builds a strong pipeline of talent to ensure a diverse high performing organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree or additional educational experiences a plus.
• 5-7+ years of progressive experience in operation management experience in leading large, growing, lean manufacturing operations.
• Demonstrated ability to produce results within a team environment and to gain alignment and develop productive working relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Must have hands-on process manufacturing, production and inventory control, ERP systems, knowledge and understanding of good purchasing practices, sound engineering practices, and material handling/warehousing, facilities, and shipping functions.
• Must have knowledge of GAP accounting, environmental and OSHA requirements, QA and QC quality systems.
• Proven experience of managing an organization
• Able to define a problem, gather data to draw conclusions and develop appropriate plans to address
• Strong change management, analytical, problem solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Experience building people and organization plans to ensure organizational readiness and capability to meet changing business conditions.
• Excellent understanding of business dynamics and organizational design.
• Excellent business analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent time management, prioritization abilities and project management.
• Confident with financial data analysis and budget planning.
• Exceptional track record of developing and implementing lean operational strategies.
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills with experience in communicating.
• Willing to travel as needed - 10%
• Cross cultural awareness

Additional Information

Physical Requirements & Work Environment

The physical demands/work environment 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 exposed to a manufacturing environment including repetitive motion, bending, lifting, twisting, crouching, reaching, pushing and/or pulling.
• Ability to stand or walk for long periods of time
• Ability to perform repetitive motion type tasks regularly such as walking, typing, using fingers and hands. 
• Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to ten (10) pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to twentyfive (25) pounds , and rarely lift up to fifty (50) pounds.
• The ability to quickly move safely over uneven terrain
• The ability to wear personal protective gear (safety shoes, glasses, ear plugs, and gloves as needed)
• Ability to communicate with others to exchange information

While performing the job functions of this position, the employee frequently works in an enviroment near powered motor vehicles, power tools, and automated assembly fixtures.

Our employees enjoy competitive, merit-based salary plus excellent benefits including:

• Health and dental insurance
• Company Paid Life Insurance / Short and Long Term Disability
• 401K plan with generous company match
• Vacation, personal days and holidays
• Continuing education reimbursement program
• Flexible spending accounts

ITW Company Overview

ITW was built on innovation and the strength of new ideas. These values have helped us expand into multiple platforms in nearly 60 countries. But at each of our businesses, the independent entrepreneurial spirit and freedom to innovate remain strong. It’s the highly talented people at ITW businesses all over the world who drive our success through new products and customer driven solutions. Together, we are ITW—a Fortune 200 company that has prospered for 100 years, and changed the way people live and work, all over the world.

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.

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.