Senior Automation Engineer: Welding & Manufacturing

Wabtec; Monterrey; Presencial; MXN 900.000 - 1.300.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Wabtec is seeking an Opex‑Senior Automation Engineer to lead and support automation initiatives across multiple manufacturing sites in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. You will partner with operations, product engineering, maintenance, quality, procurement, IT, OT, EHS, and business leadership to deliver advanced manufacturing automation solutions.

This role concentrates on welding and joining automation, robotics, controls, and enterprise capability development, blending hands-on project

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Automation/Controls, Robotics Engineering or related discipline.
• 7+ years of industrial automation, manufacturing engineering, robotics, controls, or advanced manufacturing experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of significant automation and capital projects.
• Strong understanding of robotics, controls, safety, machine integration, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience developing automation concepts, specifications, scopes, and business cases.
• Project leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to travel as required to support enterprise manufacturing sites.

Responsabilidades

• Lead automation projects from concept through production launch.
• Evaluate manufacturing processes and identify automation opportunities.
• Develop technical concepts, capital estimates, and ROI business cases.
• Serve as enterprise technical capability owner for welding and joining automation.
• Develop automation standards, specifications, and preferred technologies.
• Support multiple manufacturing sites and business units based on business priorities.
• Lead/support vendor selection, RFQs, design reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup.
• Troubleshoot and optimize existing automation systems.
• Identify and replicate successful solutions across sites.
• Support Automation & Advanced Manufacturing roadmap and technology strategy.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including robotics, vision, simulation, and AI-enabled manufacturing.
• Mentor site engineering resources and provide technical leadership.

Conocimientos

Robotics

Automation/Controls

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Travel readiness

Educación

Engineering degree

Herramientas

PLC/SCADA

Industrial networking

Machine vision

Descripción del empleo

Wabtec is seeking an Opex‑Senior Automation Engineer to lead and support automation initiatives across multiple manufacturing sites in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. You will partner with operations, product engineering, maintenance, quality, procurement, IT, OT, EHS, and business leadership to deliver advanced manufacturing automation solutions.

This role concentrates on welding and joining automation, robotics, controls, and enterprise capability development, blending hands-on project