# Control and Automation Engineer

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Chihuahua, CHIH
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

As a Controls Engineering Specialist at Ford's Chihuahua Engine Plant, you will design, implement, and maintain automation and control systems for machining processes.

Responsibilities:

- Follow up on Launch machining controls engineering deliverables for Power Train Operations programs

- Implement and apply standard software and hardware controls architectures across all programs/plants

- Ensure the identification and capture of lessons learned and their application to new programs

- Participate in simultaneous engineering meetings with Tier I suppliers and management program reviews

- Drive the controls organization to resolve issues, including feasibility, timing, cost, and workload

- Handle current scope program responsibilities

- Travel up to 80% during peak program times and work off-shift as needed

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related

- Experience in controls engineering with strong ability to quickly learn and apply controls knowledge

- Extensive software programming experience, preferably with Siemens

- Direct program experience with assembly and machining controls architectures

- Validated programming capabilities with Siemens, Schneider, Bosch PLCs, and CNC/Motion controls systems

- Hands-on knowledge and ability to troubleshoot and fix PLC, CNC, robot, vision, and other automation issues

## Skills

### Required
- Siemens
- controls engineering
- automation
- CNC
- PLC
- robotics
- electrical engineering
- mechatronics engineering
- mechanical engineering

### Nice to have
- Siemens Sinumerik One
- ABB robots
- Schneider PLCs
- Bosch PLCs
- CNC/Motion controls systems

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