Controls Engineering Specialist (LAP)
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Job overview
The Controls Engineering Specialist supports Ford’s manufacturing operations by coordinating resources to identify root causes, validate fixes, and determine validation methods. The role programs and maintains automation, machinery, robots, vision systems, and plant controls, while supporting equipment safety, networked controls PCs, and manufacturing personnel. It also contributes to equipment improvements and engineering changes.
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Full job description
As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.
In this position...
Coordinate resources to find root cause and fixes, manage and breakdown problems into items that can be validated. Determine proper validation methods.
What you'll do...
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Handle setup and maintenance of industrial bar code printers
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Utilize sound knowledge design and implement vision control systems. Familiar with different type of vision cameras and their programing software. Continuously evaluate equipment for improvement for quality and delivery
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Use FIS plant monitoring software to review cycle times of equipment, review and follow up project installations
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Reprogram equipment for engineering changes and improvements
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Update program backups for machinery and automation
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Program new installations of automation, machinery, material handling, and robots
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As part of a team, review risk assessments and evaluate equipment safety
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Assist in training manufacturing personnel and plant electricians
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Read and modify electrical prints and schematics, Auto CAD
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Maintain familiarity with OA, CPN/MPN networks and communication protocols for connecting to wireless and wired networks
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Manage installation and maintenance of virus protection software for controls network PCs, perform PC backup disc images and installation of communication and firmware and controls software
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Work overtime and weekends as needed
You'll have...
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High School Diploma or GED
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2 or more years of Controls Engineering experience (internship and coop experience will be considered)
Even better, you may have...
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Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Controls or Automation Engineering
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Electrical background (electrician or technician) preferred
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Familiar with PLC/CNC (Siemens/ Allen-Bradley), VFD, Servo, Profinet, ABB and FANUC Robots
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Solid understanding of laser burning
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Demonstrated ability to read blueprints, modify electrical schematics and use AutoCAD
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Validated ability to troubleshoot equipment and continuously evaluate for process improvements
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Experience with conveyor system programming and overhead Gantry
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Solid understanding of networking to include DH+, Ethernet and remote IO
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Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience
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Lean Tools – 5S, Kanban, Poka-Yoke, Value Stream Mapping experience
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Understanding of 8D, FMEA, and DMAIC processes
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Familiar with TQM and Kaizen methods
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One or more years of experience with MS Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook)
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Knowledge of simulation modeling and visual factory management preferred
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:
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Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
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Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
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Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
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Tuition assistance
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Established and active employee resource groups
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Paid time off for individual and team community service
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A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
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Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:
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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How this job compares
Set against the 1,485 open Manufacturing Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$113–171K/yr670 salary ranges
- US median$24–28/hr291 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 28 open Manufacturing Engineering jobs in Kentucky and 1,485 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- GE Aerospace6 open
- Jabil4 open
- The J.M. Smucker Company3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Manufacturing Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 841 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 709 of the 1,485 open Manufacturing Engineering jobs (48%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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