# Factory Automation Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $74,300-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, we are seeking a Factory Automation Engineer to design, implement, and improve automated material handling systems, including automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).

The Battery Manufacturing Engineering team is opening new highways with our next-generation propulsion systems. We're investing over $50 billion to build some of the most technologically advanced EV manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and E.U. to produce the next generation of Ford electric vehicles.

**Responsibilities**

- Develop and implement ASRS and AMR solutions aligned with manufacturing and material handling requirements.

- Evaluate material flow, storage capacity, throughput, and facility layouts to identify automation opportunities.

- Create equipment specifications, system requirements, project plans, and technical documentation.

- Coordinate with suppliers and internal teams on equipment selection, design reviews, installation, and commissioning.

- Support integration of automation equipment with plant controls, warehouse management systems, manufacturing execution systems, and other business applications.

- Troubleshoot equipment, controls, communications, and system performance issues.

- Analyze operational data and develop improvements to system availability, throughput, and reliability.

- Collaborate with safety, operations, and maintenance teams to identify risks and implement safe operating procedures.

- Develop and support testing, acceptance criteria, training, and handover documentation.

- Manage project schedules, budgets, and technical deliverables as assigned.

- Provide technical support for existing automation systems and continuous improvement initiatives.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, automation, robotics, or a related field.

- 3+ years of experience with industrial automation, manufacturing systems, or automated material handling.

- 2+ years of experience with ASRS, AMRs, or related material handling technologies.

- 3+ years of experience with industrial controls, sensors, networks, and equipment integration.

- 3+ years of experience with programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human-machine interfaces (HMIs), and industrial communication protocols.

- Ability to travel domestically up to 20% under normal business conditions, increasing to as much as 50% during launch periods, as required to support program and operational needs.

**Benefits**

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments 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

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day

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## Skills

### Required
- industrial automation
- manufacturing systems
- automated material handling
- ASRS
- AMRs
- industrial controls
- sensors
- networks
- equipment integration
- programmable logic controllers (PLCs)
- human-machine interfaces (HMIs)
- industrial communication protocols

### Nice to have
- experience implementing or supporting ASRS or AMR systems in a manufacturing or warehouse environment
- experience integrating automation with warehouse management or manufacturing execution systems
- familiarity with simulation, facility layout, or material flow analysis tools
- experience with equipment safety assessments, commissioning, and supplier management
- strong analytical, troubleshooting, and project coordination skills

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