Ford Motor Company

Data Engineer, Automation & Controls, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

Ford Motor Company$65K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 4+ years data engineering experience
  • 2+ years data visualization (reports, dashboards) experience
  • 2+ years' experience using Python, SQL, C++, Java, or similar platform for automation and data processing.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure adherence and compliance to Ford Production System (FPS) Key Unifying Processes (KUP)
  • Understand and consistently apply standard manufacturing operating systems and principles
  • Enforce compliance with Safety Operating System practices to achieve zero injuries
  • Ensure compliance with Quality Operating System practices to achieve zero defects
  • Develop workflows to automate repetitive data tasks
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production-related downtime
  • Monitor use of structured software specification and organize training for OEM's where required

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Tuition assistance
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Paid time off for community service and a generous holiday schedule
Full Job Description
Job Description

At BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, you will...
• use your entrepreneurial skills and team mindset to come up with data-driven solutions
• build and lead an agile team to deliver the advanced technology that drives the future
• create a culture of trust, encourage diversity of thought and foster leadership in others
• be part of the historic transformation of the automotive industry.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Ensure adherence and compliance to the Ford Production System (FPS) Key Unifying Processes (KUP)
  • Understand and consistently apply standard manufacturing operating systems and principles
  • Enforce compliance with Safety Operating System practices to achieve zero injuries
  • Ensure compliance with Quality Operating System practices to achieve zero defects
  • Data Pipeline Development
  • Develop Workflows to automate repetitive data tasks
  • Connect enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, and manufacturing or operational systems using APIs, event-driven messaging, and orchestration workflows
  • Perform data profiling, mapping, and modeling to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with governance standards
  • Identify and implement Controls Best Practice; launch Enablers, Training, and Change Control, etc.
  • Liaison with IT on IT / Controls interface issues
  • Drawing approvals and updates, Hydraulic, Pneumatic, Electrical
  • Monitor use of Structured software specification, organize training for OEM's where required
  • Issue resolution during machine build, installation, and steady state production
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production-related downtime (i.e. PLC programs, HMI Screens, etc.)
  • Setup and maintenance of industrial bar code scanners and printers
  • Run-off equipment per Ford specifications at supplier and plant to validate capability and robustness including safety
  • Ensure production systems meet objectives through Process Design and FMEAs
  • Work with plant and Manufacturing Engineering personnel with appropriate timing and installation documentation, to ensure efficient/timely installation and validation
  • Ensure the identification and capture of lessons learned along with their application to new programs, as well as the impact to existing strategies and standards
  • Troubleshoot PLC, robot, and other automation problems
  • Update program backups for automation
  • Program new installations of vision, fastening, dispense, leak test, electrical test, gantry and conveyor systems
  • Reprogram automation for engineering changes and improvements
  • Candidates must possess full flexibility and a readiness to consistently work across all established standard, operating, and rotational shift schedules, encompassing day, night, weekend, and holiday shifts.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 4+ years data engineering experience
  • 2+ years data visualization (reports, dashboards) experience
  • 2+ years' Experience using Python, SQL, C++, Java, or similar platform for automation and data processing.

Even better, you may have...
  • Master's degree, engineering or computer science
  • Experience Programming PLC's
  • Power Bi Expertise
  • Fundamental Working Knowledge of Industrial Electronics, PLC Logic, and Controls
  • Ability to demonstrate leadership behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, team building, leadership, and communication skills.
  • Capability to learn, use, and troubleshoot new software and hardware systems to solve manufacturing problems that users are facing.
  • Knowledge of Mfg. 4.0 (Industry 4.0) key principles - Data Collection, AI/ML, IIOT, Digital Twin
  • Ability to understand networking and controls architectures.
  • Knowledge of data structures and algorithms

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• 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.

This position is a range of salary grades 5-8 and ranges from $65,100-$166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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