# Automation Deployment Launch Engineer **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Redford, MI **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $96,720-162,120 **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/69798?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_da640050-8a6 ## Description Ford Motor Company is seeking a highly skilled and adaptable ATP (Advanced Technology Program) Launch Engineer to serve as the technical "boots on the ground" for our most ambitious manufacturing technology deployments. As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. **Responsibilities** **Advanced Technology Deployment & Commissioning** - Lead the on-site installation, commissioning, testing, and debugging of advanced manufacturing technologies, including PLCs, vision systems, AMRs, Cobots, and traditional 6-axis robotics. - Execute the technical deployment plans, timelines, and schedules established by the ATP Senior Product Launch Manager. - Troubleshoot complex hardware, software, and controls issues on the plant floor to ensure equipment meets cycle time, quality, and safety standards prior to handover. **Plant & Union Skilled Trades Collaboration** - Serve as the primary technical liaison on the plant floor, working shoulder-to-shoulder with plant engineering teams, production supervisors, and union skilled trades (e.g., electricians, millwrights, pipefitters). - Foster strong, collaborative relationships with union personnel, providing on-the-job guidance, technical support, and knowledge transfer to ensure they are fully prepared to maintain the equipment post-launch. - Navigate the unique dynamics of unionized manufacturing environments with professionalism, respect, and a focus on collective success. **Launch Support & Readiness** - Support the ATP Senior Product Launch Manager in conducting Plant Readiness Assessments, verifying that facility infrastructure (power, network, floor space) is prepared for technology drop-in. - Identify on-site technical roadblocks rapidly and implement robust countermeasures to keep deployment schedules on track. - Develop and deliver site-specific training materials and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for plant operators and maintenance teams. **Continuous Improvement & Feedback** - Act as the feedback loop to MTDC engineering and product development teams, reporting on technology performance, integration challenges, and opportunities for design maturation. **Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Robotics/Mechatronics Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent extensive hands-on experience). - 5+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, controls engineering, or a direct launch support role within an industrial environment. - Proven hands-on experience programming, integrating, and troubleshooting Controls/PLCs (e.g., Rockwell/Allen-Bradley, Siemens), Robotics (e.g., Fanuc, Kuka), and Vision Systems (e.g., Cognex, Keyence). - Demonstrated experience working effectively alongside unionized workforces and skilled trades in a heavy manufacturing setting. - Travel Requirement: Willingness and ability to travel extensively (up to 70-80%) across the Ford Manufacturing Network (domestic and potentially international) to support launch schedules. **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 - Controls/PLCs - Robotics - Vision Systems - AMRs - Cobots ### Nice to have - Direct experience deploying and programming AMRs - Direct experience integrating Cobots --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/69798?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)