Manufacturing Automation Engineer - Liquid Cooling

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 Manufacturing Automation Engineer - Liquid Cooling to lead the design, deployment, integration, validation, and continuous improvement of automated production equipment used in the manufacture of liquid-cooled server and data center hardware platforms.

This position is onsite at our production and manufacturing facility in Florence, Kentucky (Suburb of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio). This is an onsite position. It is note remote. For the right candidate we can allow a relocation budget for someone who will need relocating to the Greater Cincinnati area for this role.

The ideal candidate has proven experience implementing robotics, automated assembly equipment, machine vision systems, PLC-controlled manufacturing systems, automated material handling systems, and production automation technologies within a high-volume manufacturing environment. This is a highly hands-on role requiring close collaboration with Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality, Operations, Maintenance, and Automation partners to ensure successful equipment deployment and operational excellence.

You will be part of a team that designs, analyzes, modifies, and integrates robotics, automation, technologies and processes related to equipment and tooling for applicability to programs and products. Develops, implements, and tests preventative maintenance plans, interim solutions for damaged and unsafe equipment, and tooling. Investigates and documents engineering changes and controls equipment and tooling configuration in accordance with standard operating procedures.

Develops and recommends equipment reliability improvements through the application of reliability engineering tooling. Whom we are looking forWe are seeking an engineer who is passionate about factory automation and manufacturing innovation. The ideal candidate has experience leading automation projects, integrating complex equipment into production environments, and improving equipment reliability and performance through data-driven continuous improvement.

Candidates should be comfortable working on the factory floor, troubleshooting equipment, coordinating with equipment suppliers, and driving projects from concept through production implementation.

Key Responsibilities Design, implement, validate, and optimize manufacturing automation systems supporting liquid cooling assembly operations.

Own the full equipment lifecycle including specification development, supplier coordination, procurement support, FAT, SAT, commissioning, production launch, and sustaining support.

Design, analyze, modify, integrate, and validate robotics, automation systems, control systems, tooling, and manufacturing equipment.

Coordinate factory readiness activities including equipment installation, utilities integration, production qualification, and operational handoff.

Develop validation strategies, qualification plans, and acceptance criteria for new automation equipment and manufacturing systems.

Create and execute equipment validation protocols and production readiness plans.

Support introduction of new manufacturing technologies related to liquid-cooled server systems and advanced compute platforms.

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