# Controls Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Lima
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $72,480-$121,440
**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.

Your responsibilities will include coordinating resources to find root cause and fixes, managing and breaking down problems into items that can be validated. You will determine proper validation methods.

You will handle setup and maintenance of industrial bar code printers and utilize sound knowledge to design and implement vision control systems. You will be familiar with different types of vision cameras and their programming software. You will continuously evaluate equipment for improvement for quality and delivery.

You will use FIS plant monitoring software to review cycle times of equipment, review, and follow up project installations. You will reprogram equipment for engineering changes and improvements.

You will update program backups for machinery and automation, program new installations of automation, machinery, material handling, and robots.

As part of a team, you will review risk assessments and evaluate equipment safety. You will assist in training manufacturing personnel and plant electricians.

You will read and modify electrical prints and schematics, Auto CAD. You will maintain familiarity with OA, CPN/MPN networks and communication protocols for connecting to wireless and wired networks.

You will 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.

You will work overtime and weekends as needed.

## Skills

### Required
- High school diploma or GED
- 2 or more years of Controls Engineering experience
- Familiarity 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
- Experience with conveyor system programming and overhead Gantry
- 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
- Familiarity 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

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