# Automation Process Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Redford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,622.00 - $162,120.00/yr
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, we're looking for an Automation Process Engineer to join our Manufacturing team. As an Automation Process Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in building the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles the world expects from us. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing novel automation processes for Ford's next generation products, working with a diverse and highly capable team to deliver new automation enablers, and leading rapid prototyping efforts to swiftly bring concepts to tangible models for further development or testing.

Responsibilities:

- Design and develop novel automation processes for Ford's next generation products in a fast-paced innovative environment.

- Work with a diverse and highly capable team that engages with multiple key organizations at Ford to deliver new automation enablers.

- Design and develop manufacturing process flows and optimization strategies for adoption of latest trends and technologies to achieve efficiency improvements.

- Design and develop CAD models using software such as Inventor, CATIA, or similar, to support manufacturing and automation projects.

- Design and develop custom robot tooling designs.

- Lead rapid prototyping efforts to swiftly bring concepts to tangible models for further development or testing.

- Program and troubleshoot collaborative robots and industrial robots, incorporating robot simulation, tool design, and robot path planning.

- Design, implement, and optimize automation cells to enhance manufacturing operations.

- Facilitate design review sessions and lead PFMEA activities to identify and mitigate risks in the manufacturing process.

- Prepare and deliver technical presentations and demonstrations for team reviews, MTD project review meetings, and executive reviews.

Qualifications:

- Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Robotics or a related field.

- 2 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

- 2 years of experience with each of the following skills:

- Working in a manufacturing environment in an automation engineering role.

- Developing automation systems, including developing CAD designs, programming industrial robots, programming collaborative robots, completing workstation commissioning, and tooling design.

- Programming Fanuc industrial robots and Universal Robots.

- Developing robot simulation using RoboGuide.

- 1 year of experience with each of the following skills:

- Integrating and launching 3D computer vision systems for robot guidance and inspection purposes.

- Designing hardware in CAD software with Inventor or Solidworks.

We are offering a salary of $92,622.00 - $162,120.00/yr.

## Skills

### Required
- CAD design
- robotic automation
- mechanical design
- process development
- packaging design
- robot tooling design
- robot simulation
- industrial robotics
- collaborative robotics
- 3D computer vision
- hardware design