Toolsetter/Oper Cold Heading: 2nd shift, 3:00pm - 11:00pm, $26.17 hourly + Shift premium

Make Your Mark. Shape Your Future.

STANLEY® Engineered Fastening is the global leader in precision fastening and assembly solutions, with a history spanning nearly 100 years. Our portfolio features industry-leading brands such as Avdel®, Integra™, Nelson®, Optima®, POP®, and Tucker®. We empower engineers in Automotive, Aerospace, and Industrial sectors with innovative products that ensure efficiency, reliability, and quality in manufacturing processes. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of innovation and creativity. Our skilled team develops, manufactures, and distributes cutting-edge fastening and joining solutions to meet modern engineering and manufacturing challenges.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join us and be part of a company at the forefront of technological evolution, delivering solutions that shape the future of the fastening industry.

What You’ll Do:

As a Toolsetter/Operator – Cold Heading you’ll be part of our Stanley Engineered Fastening team located in Hopkinsville, KY. You’ll get to: 

• Maintaining Tool Crib inventory and records. Notify necessary people when tooling needs to be reordered. Materially placing physical goods in tool crib and routing tooling to appropriate engineer as necessary.
• Audit tooling: Inspect tools randomly or if suspected issue. Check dimensions and print notes to ensure tooling accuracy. Spot-check cabinets to ensure tools are in correct location and quantity is accurate. Perform annual physical inventory to ensure JDE matches quantity on hand.
• Interactive and issue supplier 8D’s and request daily updates until topic is closed. Maintain files to store completed 8D’s. Pull 2D Drawings from IDCS Document control system for tools to be re-ordered.
• Lead CribMaster activities: Pull and monitor data, restock storage units, authorize and add users to CribMaster system to use vending cabinet, changing locations if necessary, etc. Review, monitor, and validate CribMaster perishable tooling. Remove low-usage and replace with higher-usage items.
• Track, monitor, and record durability and tool life usage on high volume and critical tools. Compare usage and vendor sourced to determine best practices.
• Pairing co-dependent tooling: Place near each other in the cabinets, match before tools are withdrawn from cabinet.
• Clean, review, and repair tooling sets just off the machine for damage, wear, etc. and verify OK to be returned to tool crib. Clean worn/used tools. Track tool life of trial tools.
• Sort scrap tooling: Separate carbide, identify tools that can be reused or sent for recoating versus scrapping.
• 5S housekeeping: Organize applicable storage units as the business needs progress.
• Computer experience with internal inventory tracking systems and Microsoft Office at intermediate level (Word/Excel/PowerPoint).
• Written and verbal professional communications internal and external.
• Tracking outside sources. Issue purchase orders and follow up with vendors.
• Maintain matrix on vendors/sources.
• Attend Gemba meetings

Safety: perform safe work practices:

• Communicate Behavior Based Safety
• Wear proper PPE.
• Identify, report and resolve safety risks/hazards.
• Support and maintain 6-S 360 principles throughout.

Quality: perform and build quality parts/products to ensure specifications are met

• Identify and work collaboratively to resolve non-conformances.
• Support and work collaboratively to initiate and follow through with corrective actions.
• Diagnose and problem solve operational deficiencies.
• Check completed work for hardness and visually inspect as required. 

Lean manufacturing principles:

• Participate with lean initiatives to make continuous improvements in the department (6S projects, 6S 360 and SMED events)
• Communicate and follow work instructions.
• Ensure FIFO at operational levels.
• Team collaboration to ensure equipment uptime and efficiencies.

Who You Are:

You always strive to do a good job…but wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? You care about quality – at every level. You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. In fact, you embrace it. You also have: 

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Mechanical Experience
  

What You’ll Receive:

You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan:

• Medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off and tuition reimbursement.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools and storage company, with a leading presence in engineered fastening. We’re visionaries. Industry 4.0 innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!

All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic. 

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are 

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company. 

Benefits & Perks

You’ll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development: 
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.

EEO Statement:
All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic.

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