# Controls Engineer Specialist

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Kansas City
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As a Controls Engineer Specialist, you'll join our Manufacturing team in building world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles. You'll support Manufacturing Process Engineering activity for Final Assembly, drive continuous improvement in safety, quality, and productivity, and apply engineering principles and analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products.

Key responsibilities include:

- Supporting Manufacturing Process Engineering activity for Final Assembly

- Driving continuous improvement in safety, quality, and productivity

- Applying engineering principles and analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products

- Developing action plans to investigate and prioritize quality concerns and verify corrective actions on internal processes and supplier processes

- Leading and conducting process audits to ensure process discipline is consistent with Vehicle Operations guidelines

- Conducting job ergonomic evaluations and delivering corrective actions as required

- Analyzing vehicle inventory root causes and engaging in mapping and corrective actions to reduce vehicle inventory

- Creating process and instruction sheets supporting quality methods and processes

- Delivering capable processes and tools for Trim and Chassis Assembly operations

- Leading role in resolving assembly-related concerns

- Ensuring compliance to Plant, Corporate, Governmental, and Environmental standards

Requirements include:

- High school diploma

- 5+ years of related experience

- Leadership in ONE FORD behaviours combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills

Preferred requirements include:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering

- Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience

- 8D and 5Why corrective action and problem-solving skills

- 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

- Ergonomic analysis knowledge and experience

## Skills

### Required
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- Engineering Principles
- Analytical Techniques
- Process Improvement
- Quality Assurance
- Ergonomics
- Value Stream Mapping
- FMEA
- PPAP
- DOEs

### Nice to have
- Lean Tools
- DMAIC
- DMADV
- TQM
- Kaizen Methods
- Visual Factory Management

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