Senior Industrial Engineer: Lean & Factory Automation Lead

Corning Incorporated; Reynosa; On-site; MXN 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Benefits package

Career growth

High-impact projects

Collaborative environment

Continuous learning

Job summary

Corning Incorporated in Reynosa, Mexico is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to optimize manufacturing processes and improve product and information flow across SAP/ERP/MES environments. You will define capacity, reduce complexity, and support cost reduction through resource optimization.

You will design and maintain routings, work centers, labor standards, and BOM alignment, while coordinating with Engineering, PLM, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance to ensure accurate

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related experience in manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, process optimization, or manufacturing systems.
• Experience defining and maintaining manufacturing routings, BOMs, product structures, cost structures, activity rates, or manufacturing master data in SAP, ERP, MES, or similar systems.
• Familiarity with manufacturing software systems such as SAP, ERP, MES, PLM, and process simulation tools.
• Conversational English language proficiency.
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, KT, AME, OPEX, and manufacturing excellence tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead process optimization initiatives using IE tools such as time studies, workflow analysis, line balancing, capacity analysis, and labor utilization studies.
• Develop and maintain operational baselines including cycle time, takt time, MCT, TWC, throughput, WIP, capacity, utilization, productivity, and labor requirements.
• Support Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives (VSM, 5S, Kaizen, Standard Work, Visual Management, waste reduction).
• Define, validate, and maintain routings, operation sequences, work centers, standard times, labor standards, machine times, setup times, queue times, move times in SAP/ERP/MES.
• Support BOM, manufacturing BOM, product structure, process structure, PN structure, and system configuration alignment with Engineering, PLM, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Operations, Planning, Finance.
• Support manufacturing transformation and automation projects by defining system requirements related to routing logic, work centers, capacity, labor interaction points, material flow, production reporting, and process simulation inputs.
• Assure manufacturing cost model accuracy and support cost roll-up execution, including validation of routing times, labor assumptions, machine rates, activity rates, overhead, cost per unit, and planning capacity in SAP/ERP.
• Develop and monitor performance metrics, identify gaps between physical processes and system configuration, and lead corrective actions to improve data accuracy, planning, costing, execution readiness, and operational excellence.

Skills

Conversational English

Process optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Industrial Engineering

Tools

SAP

ERP

MES

Minitab

SPSS

Power BI

Excel

Visio

PowerPoint

Job description

Corning Incorporated in Reynosa, Mexico is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to optimize manufacturing processes and improve product and information flow across SAP/ERP/MES environments. You will define capacity, reduce complexity, and support cost reduction through resource optimization.

You will design and maintain routings, work centers, labor standards, and BOM alignment, while coordinating with Engineering, PLM, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance to ensure accurate