Ford Motor Company

Plant IT Engineer - Livonia Transmission Plant

Ford Motor Company$74K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School diploma required.
  • Experience with Windows (2012+) or Linux server administration.
  • Familiarity with Cisco routers and switches, including basic troubleshooting.
  • Knowledge of Windows server and Active Directory/ADFS is essential.
  • Experience with mobile devices (iOS and Android) and software such as Office365 and SharePoint.

Responsibilities

  • Support multi-shift manufacturing operations requiring flexible hours.
  • Provide technical support for IT applications and infrastructure in the plant.
  • Interface with Business IT to prioritize improvement initiatives.
  • Assist plant teams in incident resolution by supporting escalations and providing hands-on help.
  • Focus on maintaining applications and hardware for long-term integration.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
  • Paid family leave and flexible family care days.
  • Tuition assistance for further education.
  • Discount programs on vehicles for employees and family.
  • Generous paid holiday schedule, including time off between Christmas and New Year.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a member of the Plant IT team, you are directly responsible for maintaining the systems that keep each of our 4 transmission lines running. Your job responsibilities will require you to provide support that includes technical troubleshooting, data analysis & problem resolution for the applications & infrastructure that the plant uses to produce transmissions for Ford and Lincoln vehicles globally.

You will also lend your knowledge and experiences to support process improvement efforts toward flexible and lean manufacturing, enabling IIOT for Manufacturing and supporting the existing manufacturing execution systems within the facility.

This position provides an excellent opportunity to not only expand your IT Skillset, but also to acquire manufacturing experience that will enhance your long-term career potential.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Support a multi-shift operation in a manufacturing plant.
    • Must be able to work flexible hours in support a multi-shift operation. Requires rotating schedule to support business processes. (Days, nights and or weekends).
  • Provide technical support (I.T. Applications, Infrastructure, operating systems, end-user-productivity tools) to plant business customers throughout the manufacturing plant.
  • Interface with Business IT and business owners to prioritize improvement efforts.
  • Support Plant Floor Systems / PDO teams in resolving incidents; Support escalations, provide hands and feet to support teams and other global teams (e. g. DBA, Server Operations, Ops Control, Network Operations) if necessary.
  • Focus on the integration / long term maintenance of applications and hardware.
  • Assist team lead with managing assignments and workload.
  • Develop, maintain, and share, accurate support documentation.
  • Support of local network equipment in a Cisco based environment.
  • Support of local servers across both physical and virtual environments in a Windows and Linux based ecosystem.
  • Support of IIOT deployments and expansion efforts utilizing iOS and Android based equipment.


Job Requirements:

Qualifications

You'll have...
  • High School diploma
  • Experience in any of the following areas:
    • Experience with Server administration; Windows (2012+) or Linux
    • Familiar with Cisco routers and switches to include basic staging, troubleshooting and cable installation.
    • Knowledge of Windows server and Windows Active Directory/ADFS
    • Experience with VM servers (OSV).
    • Experience with Android and/or iOS, iPhones, iPads.
    • Experience with Mac OS.
    • Experience with Office365.
    • Experience with SharePoint.
    • Experience with Office automation
    • Experience with FIS, QLS-CM, QTS, QWX, PDS, LMA, OBL, QDAS
    • Experience with Dell PC's, Dell Laptops, HP Printers, and HP Servers
  • A strong desire to learn manufacturing operations and business practices from an IT perspective is desired.
  • Broad business and manufacturing perspective is helpful. Understanding of computer-based tools, computing infrastructure and interest in processes that support manufacturing is core.
  • A Willingness to work in a high-pressure production environment and flexible work schedule is a foundation in this space.
  • A willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to multi-task; managing multiple tasks
  • Work efficiently and effectively with diverse, cross functional teams under stressful circumstances
  • Ability to communicate effectively with business users and IT professionals including globally distributed teams.
  • The ability to adjust communications appropriately for the audience, work with all levels of management and diverse work groups, including globally distributed teams. Including the ability to adjust communications appropriately for the audience across all levels of management and knowledge.
  • Motivated self-starter
  • Identifying, investigating & solving problems without supervision


Even better, you may have...
  • Any plant floor automation experience is highly desired (Control systems, PLC's, etc.) but not required.
  • Manufacturing experience is preferred but not required.

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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

This position is a range of salary grades 6-8.

$74,300 - $166,200

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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1903
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