About the role
We're hiring a Legal Assistant, and the short version is this: bring Litigation Support, bring Mentoring, and bring the kind of curiosity that Illinois Tool Works runs on. For someone with 3 years and a detail-focused edge, this Legal Assistant job offers $59,000 - $82,000 and real upward mobility.
Key Responsibilities
- Keep Illinois Tool Works leadership honest with numbers they can act on
- Represent Illinois Tool Works professionally with vendors, partners, and customers
- Respond to internal and external requests in a timely, professional manner
- Coach newer mid-level teammates through their first messy general project
- Build and sustain strong working relationships across departments
- Document the why, not just the what, behind every Multitasking decision
- Hand off Due Diligence work clean enough that nobody has to ask twice
What You'll Bring
- The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own
- A history of leaving general processes better than you found them
- Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
- The kind of listening that makes the other person feel heard
- Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
- 5+ years putting Legal Project Management to work in a general setting
- An eye for the playfully-serious detail that separates fine from finished
The zero-bureaucracy culture at Illinois Tool Works is what keeps our Chattanooga, TN team building remarkable things together. Respect for your craft and your life outside it sits at the core of how Illinois Tool Works operates.
Expect $59,000 - $82,000, a hybrid Chattanooga office, generous PTO, and leaders who treat your development as a real priority.
Right now in Chattanooga, the Legal Assistant chair sits open and the door is unlocked.
Drop us your application and tell us, in your own words, why Illinois Tool Works caught your eye.
Internship
Mid-Level