Manufacturing Engineer: AI-Driven Process Improvement

AMETEK Inc.; Nuevo Laredo; On-site; MXN 1,125,000 - 1,688,000; Full time

Job summary

AMETEK Inc. is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to oversee and improve manufacturing processes, ensuring quality, cost-efficiency and regulatory conformance.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering (preferred) and 1–3 years in production, with strong problem‑solving and bilingual English/Spanish abilities. You will develop tools to monitor metrics, collaborate with quality, purchasing and production, and support continual improvement across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in similar position or production.
• Knowledge and practice of problem-solving methods (8D, 5 whys, others).
• Coordination and participation in product and process validation activities.
• Management of measurement tools.
• English/Spanish proficiency (writing and verbal).
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate existing processes, designs, and layouts to determine areas of waste, safety hazards, and opportunities for improvement.
• Identify tooling and equipment needs for manufacturing processes.
• Work directly with quality, purchasing and production to identify, understand, and correct design or process flaws.
• Develop tools to capture and maintain metrics to monitor process control and performance.
• Analyze data to derive improvement opportunities and initiate engineering changes.
• Document work processes and recommend process improvements.
• Support a variety of in-house organizations in continual improvement, problem investigations, safety, and documentation.
• Report project status updates and measures to management.
• Develops manufacturing processes by studying product requirements, researching testing methods, and conferring with equipment vendors.
• Improves manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.
• Assures product and process quality by designing testing methods.
• Provides manufacturing engineering information by answering questions and requests.
• Maintains product and company reputation by complying with government regulations.
• Keeps equipment operational by coordinating maintenance and repair services.
• Maintains product and process databases by writing computer programs and entering data.
• Completes design and development projects by training and guiding technicians.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or related field

Job description

AMETEK Inc. is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to oversee and improve manufacturing processes, ensuring quality, cost-efficiency and regulatory conformance.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering (preferred) and 1–3 years in production, with strong problem‑solving and bilingual English/Spanish abilities. You will develop tools to monitor metrics, collaborate with quality, purchasing and production, and support continual improvement across multiple sites.