# Control and Automation Eng

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Chihuahua, CHIH
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

We are seeking a Control and Automation Engineer to join our team at our Chihuahua, Mexico facility. As a Control and Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing control systems for our manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities:

- Use Vis Plant monitoring software to review cycle times of automation, review and follow up automation project's and installations

- Troubleshoot PLC, robot, and other automation problems supporting the day-to-day production issues when required

- Reprogram automation for engineering changes and improvements

- Define, design and maintain the plant controls strategy, ensuring alignment with ME Group Staff

- Review, approve and load all machine controls software to ensure availability of latest level

- Conduct Machine Acceptance for all new and retool equipment coming from New Programs, CIB projects or maintenance actions

- Review and approve technical drawings

- Prepare projects to improve machine controls and issue PIR's and orders

- Conduct technical review of recaps ensuring accomplishment of Ford Engineering Spec and local regulations

- Review and approve new technologies, materials and components (including obsolescence)

- Provide technical support for energy efficiency activities related to electrical circuits

- Coordinate and support of vendor installations in plant

Requirements:

- High school diploma or equivalent

- Fundamental working knowledge of PLC logic and controls (RSLogix)

- Electrical background (electrician or technician)

- Related experience

- Allen Bradley Panel View use/programming AB Servo and AB VFD drives

- Familiarity with VFD's, Armor starts, encoders, network/Ethernet controls

- Strong problem-solving skills, including 8Ds, FMEAs, and DMAICs

- Ability to independently troubleshoot all body equipment and continuously evaluate equipment for improvement for quality and delivery

- Fanuc robot experience

- Kawasaki programming, RS Logics, Microsoft office

- PLC

- Ability to read prints, AutoCAD, interpret and modify electrical schematics

- Experienced in laser burning

- Strong understanding of conveyors system programming and body tooling techniques, in addition to networking understanding, DH+, Ethernet, remote IO

- Ability to read blueprints

- Simulation modeling exposure

- Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience

- Lean Tools – 5S, Kanban, Poka-yoke, and Value Stream Mapping

- DMAIC and DMADV (DFSS) Project Methodology experience

- TQM and Kaizen Methods

- FMEA, PPAP, and DOEs experience

- Visual Factory Management

Preferred qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering

- 2+ years of related experience

- Strong problem-solving skills, including 8Ds, FMEAs, and DMAICs

- Ability to independently troubleshoot all body equipment and continuously evaluate equipment for improvement for quality and delivery

- Fanuc robot experience

- Kawasaki programming, RS Logics, Microsoft office

- PLC

- Ability to read prints, AutoCAD, interpret and modify electrical schematics

- Experienced in laser burning

- Strong understanding of conveyors system programming and body tooling techniques, in addition to networking understanding, DH+, Ethernet, remote IO

- Ability to read blueprints

- Simulation modeling exposure

- Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience

- Lean Tools – 5S, Kanban, Poka-yoke, and Value Stream Mapping

- DMAIC and DMADV (DFSS) Project Methodology experience

- TQM and Kaizen Methods

- FMEA, PPAP, and DOEs experience

- Visual Factory Management

## Skills

### Required
- PLC
- RSLogix
- Allen Bradley Panel View
- AB Servo
- AB VFD drives
- VFD's
- Armor starts
- encoders
- network/Ethernet controls
- Fanuc robot
- Kawasaki programming
- Microsoft office
- AutoCAD
- electrical schematics
- laser burning
- conveyors system programming
- body tooling techniques
- DH+
- Ethernet
- remote IO
- blueprints
- simulation modeling
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- 5S
- Kanban
- Poka-yoke
- Value Stream Mapping
- DMAIC
- DMADV
- TQM
- Kaizen Methods
- FMEA
- PPAP
- DOEs
- Visual Factory Management

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