Engineering Manager - Controls Engineering

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.

How will you make an impact? Jabil is seeking a collaborative and technically experienced Engineering Manager to join our Data Center Infrastructure Engineering team.

This individual will lead and develop an engineering team supporting the design, development, release and lifecycle management of complex power, cooling and infrastructure products. The Engineering Manager will establish clear priorities, strengthen engineering capabilities and create an environment in which engineers can work effectively across disciplines. This role will partner closely with other engineering teams, technical program management, manufacturing, quality, supply chain and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, robust, manufacturable and dependable products.

The position may support Design and Configuration, including CAD and PLM related functions, Electrical Engineering, or Controls Engineering. While the technical focus may vary by team, the role maintains a consistent responsibility for people leadership, engineering execution, technical oversight, resource planning and organizational development.

Location:

This role allows remote work or can be based in Austin, TX with 25% travel per year domestically and international (rare).

• Lead, coach, and develop a high performing engineering team supporting product development, NPI, production and sustaining activities.
• Establish clear team priorities, performance expectations, development plans, and a culture of accountability, collaboration, technical rigor and continuous improvement.
• Help plan and balance resources across multiple projects, programs and product platforms while monitoring workload, capacity, dependencies and capability needs.
• Partner with technical program managers and engineering leaders to establish realistic schedules, milestones, resource plans and deliverables.
• Provide technical guidance and design oversight while empowering engineers to maintain ownership of their work and decisions.
• Ensure engineering deliverables meet functionality, quality, safety, manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, compliance and configuration requirements.
• Facilitate technical and design reviews, resolve cross functional issues, and communicate technical, resource, and execution risks to stakeholders.
• Work across Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Design and Configuration, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain and Product Management throughout the product lifecycle.
• Drive consistent use and continuous improvement of engineering standards, tools, documentation, release processes, change control, baselining and traceability practices.
• Support root cause analysis and resolution of design, production, and field issues, including implementation of corrective actions.
• Lead workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, performance management and organizational capability development.
• Participate in customer discussions, business reviews and technical planning; support global collaboration and perform other responsibilities as assigned.

• Education Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, controls engineering, systems engineering, computer engineering, or another relevant technical discipline is required.
• Experience 5+ years of engineering experience supporting complex products, equipment or integrated systems.
• Experience leading controls engineering involving PLCs, embedded or industrial controls, BMS integration, instrumentation, automation, sequences of operation or system commissioning.
• 3+ years of experience leading, supervising or managing engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience supporting product development, NPI, production and/or sustaining engineering environments.
• Experience managing multiple projects, priorities, resources and technical deliverables simultaneously.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, technical program management, manufacturing, quality, supply chain and other…