Principal Mechanical Engineer – DFX, Frames and Structures - DCI; REMOTE

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.

The Mechanical Engineer is responsible for developing and maintaining detailed CAD models, Bills of Materials (BOMs), engineering specifications, and manufacturing documentation for mechanical assemblies, frames, structures, enclosures, and related products. This role provides Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Excellence (DFX) support to ensure products are optimized for manufacturability, quality, cost, reliability, serviceability, and scalability. The engineer leads manufacturing process development, tooling and fixture design, and production readiness activities while driving continuous improvement throughout the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities include ensuring product performance, reliability, maintainability, safety, ergonomics, schedule adherence, and quality objectives are achieved. The role collaborates closely with engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and external equipment suppliers to successfully transition new products from design into stable, efficient, and repeatable manufacturing processes.

• Plan, develop, sustain, and improve assembly processes for mechanical products, subassemblies, frames, structures, panels, enclosures, and mounting solutions.
• Evaluate product flow, material delivery, storage, line feed methods, work in process levels, buffer requirements and workstation or workcell layout.
• Perform process mapping, time studies, work measurement, capacity analysis, and line balancing to improve throughput, labor utilization, schedule adherence, and cost.
• Design and improve ergonomic workstations, fixtures, tools, material-handling methods, and manufacturing layouts.
• Use CAD tools to review, develop, and update models, layouts, drawings, and technical data packages supporting manufacturability, assembly planning, fixtures, tooling, and production readiness.
• Provide design-for-manufacturing and design-for-assembly input for machined parts, sheet-metal components, welded structures, fasteners and mechanical assemblies.
• Support the creation and maintenance of manufacturing documentation, work instructions, process flows, layouts, equipment requirements and product bills of material.
• Evaluate manufacturing feasibility, process risk, equipment needs, labor content, and cost for new or changing products.
• Lead or support PFMEA, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, yield improvement, quality improvement, and cost-reduction activities.
• Coordinate manufacturing trials, process validation, equipment qualification, and production readiness activities for new or modified processes.
• Work with production personnel and equipment or component suppliers to resolve manufacturing, assembly, material, and process issues.
• Use production systems and metrics to monitor process performance, identify gaps, and implement sustainable improvements.
• Propose and drive cross-functional improvement projects within the assigned workcell or product area.
• Provide technical guidance and share industrial engineering practices with less experienced engineers and cross-functional team members.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Location:

This role is Remote
* OR Austin, TX
* Requires up to 30% domestic and/or international travel (rare)

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related engineering field; a master's degree is preferred.

Experience:

Typically 5 to 8 years of relevant industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, mechanical integration, or production support experience. Experience supporting complex products, processes, workcells, or manufacturing environments. A suitable combination of education, experience, and training may be considered.

Practical understanding and hands on experience of mechanical manufacturing and assembly processes, including sheet-metal fabrication, welded…