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Why Ford’s New Kansas City Tire Line Needs Four Controls Engineers — Not One

by | Jun 15, 2026 | Automation Contractors Jobs News, Automotive Automation, Automotive Manufacturing, Controls Engineering, Controls Engineering Jobs, HMI/SCADA Development, hourly Contracts, Kansas Contracts, PLC Contract, Robotics, Vision Systems

Four controls engineers are needed on a new automated tire assembly line at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant (KCAP), and the number itself is the story. Not one specialist for a week — four engineers, starting as soon as they are free and running through...
Two Controls Engineer Contracts Just Opened in Cedar Rapids — and the AI Moment in MES

Two Controls Engineer Contracts Just Opened in Cedar Rapids — and the AI Moment in MES

by | Apr 22, 2026 | Automation Contractors Jobs News, Automation Contracts, Contract Workers, Controls Engineering, Controls Engineering Jobs

The last three weeks have produced more movement in the controls engineering world than the previous three years combined. At the 2025 Ignition Community Conference last fall, Inductive Automation announced the MCP Module — a Model Context Protocol bridge that...