# Control Engineer Specialist (LAP)

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Louisville, KY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $84,480-141,360
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build smart vehicles. In our plants, we develop new technologies and processes to increase efficiency.

## Responsibilities

In this position, you will:

- Coordinate resources to find root causes and fixes, manage and break down problems into items that can be validated.

- Handle setup and maintenance of industrial bar code printers.

- Design and implement vision control systems using different types of vision cameras and their programming software.

- Evaluate equipment for quality and delivery improvements.

- Use FIS plant monitoring software to review cycle times of equipment and follow up on project installations.

- Reprogram equipment for engineering changes and improvements.

- Update program backups for machinery and automation.

- Program new installations of automation, machinery, material handling, and robots.

- Review risk assessments and evaluate equipment safety as part of a team.

- Assist in training manufacturing personnel and plant electricians.

- Read and modify electrical prints and schematics using Auto CAD.

- Maintain familiarity with OA, CPN/MPN networks and communication protocols.

- Manage installation and maintenance of virus protection software for controls network PCs.

- Work overtime and weekends as needed.

## Qualifications

You will have:

- High School Diploma or GED.

- 2 or more years of Controls Engineering experience.

Even better, you may have:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Controls or Automation Engineering.

- Electrical background.

- Familiarity with PLC/CNC, VFD, Servo, Profinet, ABB and FANUC Robots.

- Understanding of laser burning and networking concepts.

- Experience with conveyor system programming and overhead Gantry.

- Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience.

- Familiarity with TQM and Kaizen methods.

- Experience with MS Office.

## Benefits

We offer:

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs.

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members.

- Tuition assistance.

- Paid time off for individual and team community service.

- A generous schedule of paid holidays.

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- Controls Engineering
- Industrial Automation
- Vision Control Systems
- FIS Plant Monitoring Software
- Auto CAD
- Electrical Prints
- Schematics
- Networking Protocols

### Nice to have
- PLC/CNC
- VFD
- Servo
- Profinet
- ABB Robots
- FANUC Robots
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- TQM
- Kaizen
- MS Office

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