# Automation Engineering Specialist (LAP)

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Louisville, KY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $72,480 - $162,120
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As part of our Manufacturing team, you'll help build world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles.

In this position, you will have oversight over maintenance and engineering operations, optimizing the assembly process through collaboration with skilled trades work groups.

Responsibilities:

- Oversee production controls systems and associated systems

- Conduct root cause analysis of downtime issues to prevent recurrence (4D process)

- Analyze equipment performance and work to improve efficiencies; actively participate in Constraint Review Process

- Lead oversight of controls and automation, including indirect supervision of electrical trades and electrical technicians, robot, automation and controls changes, and programming and logic changes

- Work with ME/PE to launch new programs or equipment, optimize Automation and Controls systems for process tooling

- Provide input to MPS for weekend and shutdown maintenance planning

- Work any shift, including rotating shifts and weekends

- Collaborate with Skilled Trades to create modern solutions and pursue new technologies

Qualifications:

- High School Diploma or GED

- One or more years of technical work experience and troubleshooting in a Manufacturing or OEM Tooling environment

Preferred qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Automation, Controls or Robotics Engineering

- Technical certification in Robot/Automation and Controls

- Three or more years of automotive experience

- One or more years of experience with Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Outlook)

- Validated experience managing a unionized workforce

- Demonstrated skill with automotive controls and robotics

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care, 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

Salary:

- Salary grade 6: $72,480 - $121,440

- Salary grade 7: $84,480 - $141,360

- Salary grade 8: $96,720 - $162,120

## Skills

### Required
- Manufacturing
- Automation
- Controls
- Robotics
- Electrical

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Automation, Controls or Robotics Engineering
- Technical certification in Robot/Automation and Controls
- Microsoft Office

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