Plant System Integration Specialist, Ford Energy

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.