Automation Design Engineer

Jabil Engineering Position

At Jabil, 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.

JOB SUMMARY Designs, fabricates, modifies, evaluates and documents molded assemblies, components, and systems to produce or improve company products and facilitate manufacturing operations. Develops data and makes preliminary sketches, lay-outs and notes required to present design proposals. Researches basic design factors such as ease of manufacture and availability of materials and equipment. Works with other organizations impacted by design development. May perform work in a specific sub-specialty such as Automation, Mechanical Engineering, Mold Design, or Tooling.

Please see addendum for specific sub-specialty requirements. This description is designed to capture the general elements of Engineering work.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and develops plastic molded sub-assemblies, components, and packaging as assigned.
• Develops and implements changes to product design and/or the manufacturing process to achieve efficiency, quality, and/or cost improvements by participating in new product development programs.
• Develops requirement specifications, system concepts, CAD generated machine layouts, detail drawings, BOM's and budgets. Makes layouts of basic and some complex assemblies and details of parts of devices, mechanisms and structures.
• Provides customer product design engineering for economic production; may participate in meetings with customers.
• Assesses proper material, tooling, automation and equipment selection.
• Works with manufacturing to trouble-shoot problems, upgrades, retrofits, set-ups, methods development, and the development of process parameters
• Participates in product development meetings and may make recommendations to product design changes to enhance manufacturing and assembly.
• May conduct proof of concept experiments and design other testing requirements as needed.
• May develop SOP's, operations and maintenance manuals.
• May research new technology or development tools to remain informed of current technology.
• Understanding of Lean Six Sigma tools, projects and processes and ability to incorporate these into assigned engineering projects.
• Reviews completed projects for accuracy, clarity and completeness.
• Supports all company safety and quality programs and initiatives.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

ENGINEERING ADDENDUM

Automation Technical responsibility for design and development of automation requirement specification and systems concepts and installs automation and transfer automation programs to production in a smooth and timely manner.

CAD/CAE Technical responsibility for design and production of 2D and 3D representations of plastic injection molded assemblies, components, packaging and products.

Mechanical Technical responsibility for a variety of engineering work in planning and design of products, tools, engines, machines and other mechanically functioning equipment and mechanical industrial processes; oversees production, installation, operation, maintenance and repair of such equipment.

Materials Technical responsibility for the manipulation of the molecular structure of substances used to create new material for use in products, specifically working with plastics or composites that meet certain mechanical, chemical and electrical requirements. Responsible for determining test and performance requirements. Develops test methodologies and procedures and tests materials as required.

Mold Design Technical responsibility for the design and development of molds used to produce plastic assemblies, components and packaging involving environmental, mechanical and thermal limitations. May design…