Controls Engineer

About the company

Ford Motor Company

Automotive · 10,001+ employees

What you'll do

• Develop solutions in manufacturing intelligence and build products to solve problems in Ford’s factories.

What you need

• <span lang="EN-GB">Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic, Controls, Automation or Mechatronics Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent demonstrable experience.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Typically 8+ years of hands-on industrial controls engineering experience in manufacturing, including delivery on capital equipment programmes.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Strong PLC programming and diagnostic capability across at least one major platform (Siemens TIA Portal/S7, Rockwell/Allen-Bradley Studio 5000, or equivalent), plus HMI and SCADA experience.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Demonstrable hands-on experience integrating machine vision or camera-based inspection systems with controls — capture triggers, part-present and cycle signals, lighting control, reject handling and station interloc</span><a><span lang="EN-GB">ks.</span></a>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Solid grasp of industrial networking and protocols — Profinet, Ethernet/IP, OPC-UA, Modbus — and of plant network architecture.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Hands-on experience moving plant-floor data into applications and platforms using MQTT and structured message formats such as JSON, including configuration of industrial middleware or integration tooling — for example DeviceWise, Node-RED, Ford crossPLC, HiveMQ or </span><a><span lang="EN-GB">equivalent</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-GB">.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Ability to read, review and approve electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic drawings and control panel designs.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Practical experience of machine build, run-off, installation and commissioning, including issue resolution under launch pressure.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Demonstrated experience applying, governing or authoring engineering standards and specifications, and handling deviation and waiver decisions.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Working knowledge of OT cybersecurity requirements for plant-floor compute across both Windows and Linux-based systems — segregation, hardening, patching and access control.&nbsp;</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Strong safety discipline on live manufacturing equipment, including lockout (ECPL), permits, risk assessment and machine safety requirements.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Demonstrable experience mentoring engineers and influencing without authority across engineering, plant, IT and supplier stakeholders.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Willingness and ability to travel internationally to plants, OEMs and equipment run-off.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Fluent professional English.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Master's degree in a controls, automation or systems engineering discipline.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Familiarity with Ford controls standards and systems — FAST, OMS, MIDAS, OPIC, OneSpot, GPDS, QWX, WMA, QLS-CM, M/FIS.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Experience of Virtual Commissioning tooling and practice.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Experience deploying industrial PCs, DXD, edge compute and sensor instrumentation into live production environments.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Experience integrating AI/ML, condition monitoring, gauging or quality systems with controls.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Experience of energy monitoring and reduction initiatives on new and retool programmes.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Additional European language (Spanish or German).</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">A documented, standard controls interface exists for Sight products and is used across both Sense and Vision deployments.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">The volume of site-specific controls engineering and of deviation and waiver requests falls measurably over time.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">New and retooled equipment is specified so that Sight product capability is designed in, reducing retrofit cost and lead time.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Virtual Commissioning is completed for Sight-related controls software ahead of physical commissioning.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Cybersecurity compliance for all Sight plant-floor compute is evidenced and current, with no unresolved exceptions.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Controls-related product launch and downtime issues are resolved quickly and permanently, with root causes eliminated at source.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Controls obsolescence and lifecycle risk is visible, with credible migration plans in place.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Launch and Deployment Engineers and software engineers demonstrably grow in controls capability; critical knowledge is not held by you alone.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Ford standards, procedures and specifications you administer are current, proportionate and genuinely used.</span>

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