# Controls Engineering Specialist (KTP)

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Louisville
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $84,480-$141,360
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this position, you will lead problem-solving to assist plants and implementation teams in resolving tooling, equipment, and conveyor performance issues and downtime. You will coordinate resources to find root cause and fixes, manage and breakdown problems into items that can be validated. You will also handle setup and maintenance of industrial bar code printers, utilize sound knowledge to design and implement vision control systems, and continuously evaluate equipment for improvement for quality and delivery.

Responsibilities:

- Coordinate resources to find root cause and fixes, manage and breakdown problems into items that can be validated.

- Handle setup and maintenance of industrial bar code printers.

- Utilize sound knowledge to design and implement vision control systems.

- Continuously evaluate equipment for improvement for quality and delivery.

- Use FIS plant monitoring software to review cycle times of equipment, review and follow up project installations.

- Reprogram equipment for engineering changes and improvements.

- Update program backups for machinery and automation.

- Program new installations of automation, machinery, material handling, and robots.

- As part of a team, review risk assessments and evaluate equipment safety.

- Assist in training manufacturing personnel and plant electricians.

- Read and modify electrical prints and schematics, Auto CAD.

- Maintain familiarity with OA, CPN/MPN networks and communication protocols for connecting to wireless and wired networks.

- Manage installation and maintenance of virus protection software for controls network PCs, perform PC backup disc images and installation of communication and firmware and controls software.

Qualifications:

- High school diploma or GED.

- 2 or more years of Controls Engineering experience (internship and coop experience will be considered).

- Bachelor's Degree preferred.

- Electrical background (electrician or technician) preferred.

- Familiar with PLC/CNC (Siemens/Allen-Bradley), VFD, Servo, Profinet, ABB, and FANUC Robots.

- Solid understanding of laser burning.

- Demonstrated ability to read blueprints, modify electrical schematics, and use AutoCAD.

- Validated ability to troubleshoot equipment and continuously evaluate for process improvements.

- Solid understanding of networking to include DH+, Ethernet, and remote IO.

- Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience.

- Lean Tools – 5S, Kanban, Poka-Yoke, Value Stream Mapping experience.

- Understanding of 8D, FMEA, and DMAIC processes.

- Familiar with TQM and Kaizen methods.

- One or more years of experience with MS Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook).

- Knowledge of simulation modeling and visual factory management preferred.

## Skills

### Required
- PLC/CNC
- VFD
- Servo
- Profinet
- ABB
- FANUC Robots
- Laser burning
- AutoCAD
- Networking
- DH+
- Ethernet
- Remote IO
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- 5S
- Kanban
- Poka-Yoke
- Value Stream Mapping
- 8D
- FMEA
- DMAIC
- TQM
- Kaizen
- MS Office

### Nice to have
- Simulation modeling
- Visual factory management

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