Engineering Manager – Design & Configuration

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

 

Jabil is seeking a collaborative and technically experienced Engineering Manager – Design & Configuration to lead a multidisciplinary team supporting the design, release, configuration and lifecycle management of complex power, cooling and data center infrastructure products. 

 

The team includes experienced and lead-level contributors across mechanical design, electrical design, CAD, PLM/configuration, and related disciplines. The manager owns people leadership, priorities, resource planning and execution accountability while partnering with technical leads who retain discipline-specific technical ownership. 

 

This role supports both mature products and design-partner engagements where requirements, interfaces, and configurations may evolve. Success requires balancing technical risk, workload, and program priorities while maintaining disciplined CAD, BOM, PLM, change-control, baselining and release practices. 

 

What will you do? 

 

Leadership & Engineering Execution 

• Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team, including senior and lead-level individual contributors, across product development, NPI, production and sustaining activities. 

• Set clear priorities, expectations and accountability; manage staffing, development, workload and capacity across multiple projects and product platforms. 

• Partner with technical leads and program stakeholders to establish realistic schedules, resource plans and deliverables based on product maturity, complexity, technical uncertainty, and dependencies. 

• Maintain clear accountability between engineering management and discipline technical leads: management owns people, priorities, capacity and execution; technical leads retain appropriate discipline-specific technical authority. 

• Facilitate design reviews and escalations, resolve cross-discipline issues, and communicate technical, schedule and resource risks with clear mitigation plans. 

 

Design & Configuration Discipline 

• Drive consistent engineering standards and configuration discipline across CAD models, drawings, electrical schematics, BOMs, technical documentation, and PLM records. 

• Maintain alignment and traceability among CAD structures, engineering BOMs, released documentation, and product configurations throughout the lifecycle. 

• Strengthen PLM/configuration governance, including revision management, baselining, effectivity, lifecycle states and release readiness. 

• Ensure disciplined ECR/ECN and change-control execution, so engineering changes are reviewed, approved, traceable, and compatible with released configurations and production needs. 

• Establish reliable release practices from evolving engineering inputs through configuration-controlled, production-ready deliverables, and continuously improve data quality, documentation and engineering workflows. 

 

Cross-Functional & Lifecycle Support 

• Partner across Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Technical Program Management and Product Management to resolve design, configuration, manufacturability and release issues. 

• Support prototype builds, NPI, production ramp, sustaining engineering and significant design or field issues, including root-cause and corrective action activities. 

• Represent Design & Configuration priorities, risks, resource needs and execution status in customer, business and technical reviews as appropriate. 

 

How will you get here? 

 

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering Technology or another relevant technical discipline. A suitable combination of education, technical experience, and training may be considered. 

 

Experience 

• 8+ years of engineering experience supporting complex electromechanical, industrial, infrastructure or similarly complex products, with 3+ years of engineering leadership, people management or responsibility for multidisciplinary engineering teams. 

• Experience leading experienced engineers or technical leads across multiple priorities and lifecycle phases, including product development, NPI, production and/or sustaining engineering. 

• Experience with design reviews, CAD/BOM alignment, PLM/configuration management, engineering change control, baselining, product release and technical issue resolution. 

• Demonstrated cross-functional experience with mechanical, electrical, program management, manufacturing, quality and supply-chain organizations. 

 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities 

• Strong people leadership, coaching, communication and cross-functional influence, including the ability to lead senior technical contributors without displacing discipline-specific ownership. 

• Broad understanding of mechanical and electrical engineering interfaces and their relationship to CAD, BOMs, PLM, and configuration-controlled product data. 

• Strong understanding of product lifecycle, engineering change, configuration management, baselining, release and traceability practices. 

• Ability to translate program objectives into priorities, resource plans and deliverables; assess technical, schedule and capacity risks; and drive mitigation and escalation. 

• Effective technical judgment in fast-moving, geographically distributed environments with evolving requirements and interfaces. Ability to travel as required. 

 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Management or related discipline. 

• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams spanning mechanical design, electrical design, CAD and PLM/configuration, including senior engineers or technical leads. 

• Experience with critical infrastructure, data center equipment, cooling products, electrical power-distribution equipment, or similarly complex electromechanical products. 

• Familiarity with Creo and/or SolidWorks; EPLAN, AutoCAD Electrical, SolidWorks Electrical and/or Edge Electrical; and PLM/configuration-controlled engineering environments. 

• Familiarity with applicable IEC, UL or related product standards; experience with NPI, global manufacturing operations, team scaling or project/program management is a plus. 

The pay range for this role is $121,300 - $218,300. Job-related, non-discriminatory factors used to determine the actual offered rate include qualifications and experience, geographic location, education, external market data, and consideration of internal equity. The anticipated close date of this job requisition is: .

As part of the total rewards package, this position is eligible for a short-term incentive based on performance. In addition, Jabil offers benefits to enhance your health, wealth, and resilient self. These include medical, dental, and vision insurance plans; paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment; 4 weeks of paid parental leave; in 2027, 11 company-paid holidays (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to change yearly; 401(k) retirement plan; and employee stock purchase plan.

 

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