# Plant System Integration Specialist, Ford Energy

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Glendale, KY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,100-$166,200
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating U.S. energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS).

In this hands-on role, you will design and build new software applications and tools that solve operational problems on the plant floor. You will own problems end-to-end, gathering requirements from plant stakeholders, designing and building the solution, and deploying and supporting it in line with Ford Production System (FPS) standards.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with team leaders and plant stakeholders to identify needs and design, build, test, deploy, and support digital applications and workflows.

- Select appropriate platforms and approaches, balancing build-versus-buy, low-code, and custom development options.

- Align digital solutions with FPS priorities and support adoption through training, documentation, and deployment planning.

- Connect applications to plant and enterprise systems, including MES, IIoT, ERP, SCADA, and PLCs.

- Build and maintain reliable data pipelines, APIs, and semantic models that make production data consistent and accessible.

- Develop dashboards and reporting tools that support real-time SQDCMEP decisions and data traceability.

- Maintain data quality, master data, metadata, and documentation; troubleshoot system, connectivity, and production-record issues.

- Administer SharePoint and automate workflows using low-code/no-code tools where appropriate.

- Ensure solutions follow cybersecurity and IT/OT security standards.

- Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions, and collaborate across teams to pilot and scale digital improvements.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, automation, or computer engineering; computer science; or a related field,or equivalent education and experience.

- 3–5 years of experience in a similar role.

- Experience designing and building software applications or tools from the ground up, including ownership of the software development lifecycle.

- Experience gathering requirements from business or operational stakeholders and translating them into working software.

- Hands-on experience with a cloud platform; Google Cloud Platform preferred, with AWS or Azure experience also welcome.

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- cloud platform
- software development
- data engineering
- MES
- SCADA
- PLCs
- ERP
- IIoT

### Nice to have
- Google Cloud Platform
- AWS
- Azure
- React
- Vue
- Node.js/Express
- FastAPI
- Flask
- dbt
- Looker/LookML
- Cube.js

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