# Casting Manufacturing Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600-$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 highly skilled Casting Manufacturing Engineer to join our team. As a Casting Manufacturing Engineer, you will be responsible for driving operational excellence within our aluminum die casting operations. You will work in a fast-paced, high-tech environment where your expertise in equipment and facility design, debugging and troubleshooting will drive performance and reliability of our high-pressure die casting cells to meet Ford's world-class standards for precision and quality.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the subject matter expert for die casting equipment, driving equipment design development, troubleshooting and reducing failures.

- Lead the maintenance and optimization of the entire die casting cell, including trim presses, ladles, extractors, spray systems, and material handling equipment.

- Manage the seamless operation of auxiliary equipment, including robots, extractor, spray and temperature control units (TCUs).

- Develop robust preventive and predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) programs to minimize unplanned downtime and extend equipment life cycles.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field.

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in a high-pressure aluminum die casting environment.

- Ability to read and interpret hydraulic schematics, equipment design, electrical and pneumatic drawings.

- Proven experience with operation and troubleshooting of die casting machines and peripheral equipment.

- Deep understanding of industrial safety standards.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Proficiency in designing, operating and maintaining 6-axis robots, 7th axis tracks, end of arm tooling and their integration within the die casting cell.

- Specialized knowledge of Temperature Control Units (TCUs) and hot oil systems used in die temperature management.

- Certification in Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), or Lean Manufacturing principles.

- Ability to lead technical teams during equipment design phase, breakdown situations and communicate effectively with leadership regarding equipment status.

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, 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

- 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
- die casting equipment
- equipment design development
- troubleshooting
- maintenance
- optimization
- auxiliary equipment
- robots
- temperature control units
- predictive maintenance
- industrial safety standards

### Nice to have
- robotics
- six sigma
- root cause analysis
- lean manufacturing