# Engineering Specialist- Controls

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $72,480-$162,120
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As part of Ford's Manufacturing team, you'll help build state-of-the-art smart vehicles.

In this position, you'll lead problem-solving to assist plants and implementation teams in resolving tooling, equipment, and conveyor performance issues and downtime.

## Responsibilities

- Coordinate resources to find root causes and fixes, manage and break down problems into items that can be validated.

- Handle setup and maintenance of industrial bar code printers.

- Design and implement vision control systems using different types of vision cameras and their programming software.

- Evaluate equipment for improvement in quality and delivery.

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

- Review risk assessments and evaluate equipment safety as part of a team.

- Assist in training manufacturing personnel and plant electricians.

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

- Maintain familiarity with OA, CPN/MPN networks, and communication protocols.

- Manage installation and maintenance of virus protection software for controls network PCs.

- Work overtime and weekends as needed.

## Qualifications

- High school diploma or GED.

- 2 or more years of Controls Engineering experience.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree.

- Keyence or Cognex camera programming experience.

- Promess press experience.

- Electrical background.

- Familiarity with PLC/CNC, VFD, Servo, Profinet, ABB, and FANUC Robots.

- Solid understanding of laser burning.

- Demonstrated ability to read blueprints and use AutoCAD.

- Validated ability to troubleshoot equipment.

- Experience with conveyor system programming and overhead Gantry.

- Solid understanding of networking.

- Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience.

- Familiarity with TQM and Kaizen methods.

- Experience with MS Office.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.

- Flexible family care and parental leave.

- Vehicle discount program.

- Tuition assistance.

- Paid time off for individual and team community service.

- Generous schedule of paid holidays.

- Option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- Controls Engineering
- Auto CAD
- FIS plant monitoring software
- vision control systems
- PLC/CNC
- VFD
- Servo
- Profinet

### Nice to have
- Keyence camera programming
- Cognex camera programming
- Promess press experience
- Electrical background
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- TQM
- Kaizen

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