# Engineering Specialist, Automation

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

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## Description

As part of our Manufacturing team, you'll help build world-class smart vehicles. In our plants around the world, we're constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency.

**Responsibilities**

You will have oversight of maintenance operations and direct supervision of skilled trades assigned to support production and facilities.

- Ensure adherence to FAS08, OSHA and all applicable safety standards for skilled trades work teams

- Oversee production controls systems and associated systems

- Conduct root cause analysis of downtime issues to prevent recurrence (4D process)

- Support and direct skilled trades/maintenance personnel to evaluate requirements for maintaining and improving production yields, throughput, and up time

- Use Maximo for Maintenance (MFM) to document all maintenance activities (crisis and planned) as well as interface and provide input to maintenance planning activities

- Execute prioritized daily maintenance tasks (predictive, preventive and crisis maintenance)

- Analyze equipment performance and work to improve efficiencies; actively participate in Constraint Review Process

- Ensure equipment start-up readiness for production

- Lead oversight of controls and automation

- Evaluate contractor performance and safety behavior and operations as related to controls and automation

- Liaise and supervise maintenance related vendors (parts supply & services) and ensures appropriate execution and that objectives are met

- Support and as needed supervise preventive maintenance schedules, preventive and predictive inspections, and repairs to minimize down time

- Work with ME/PE to launch new programs or equipment, optimize Automation and Controls systems for process tooling

- Execute prioritized daily maintenance activities (predictive, preventive and crisis maintenance) obtaining full utilization of work force while optimizing available opportunities for all maintenance

- Provide input to MPS for weekend and shutdown maintenance planning

- Use Maximo for Maintenance (MFM) to document all maintenance activities (crisis and planned)

- Work any shift as well as rotating shifts and weekends

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Automation, Controls or Robotics Engineering

- One or more years of technical work experience and troubleshooting in a Manufacturing or an OEM Tooling environment

**Benefits**

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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
- Electrical Engineering
- Automation
- Controls
- Robotics Engineering
- Maximo for Maintenance (MFM)
- Microsoft Office

### Nice to have
- Technical certification in Robot / Automation and Controls
- Three or more years of automotive experience
- Validated experience managing a unionized work force
- Demonstrated skill with automotive controls and robotics

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