Senior Engineering Manager; SITE

At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world’s top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 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 expanding! We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineering Manager to drive engineering operations for our new state-of-the-art site in Salisbury, NC (near Charlotte)! Be apart of the growing industry of data center infrastructure and build your engineering team/department from the ground up!

The Senior Engineering Manager will be responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and managing production systems across our cloud computing / data center manufacturing facilities that assure performance, reliability, maintainability, schedule adherence and cost control within the production sites. The Sr Engineering Manager will adopt as its goals profitability, effectiveness, adaptability, responsiveness, quality, and the continuous improvement of rack, server, and data center products and services throughout their life cycles

This role also supports business development efforts with current and/or future customers and development or implementation of cloud computing / data center engineering strategies.

This is an on site, site level, hands on role in Salisbury, NC

This role may require extensive travel to other locations during the first 3-6 months for training, team integration, and operational alignment.

• Manages ME (manufacturing engineering) and IE (industrial engineering) activities with focus on key operational metrics for our cloud computing / data center manufacturing operations.
• Manufacturing System Development:
  Design and develop manufacturing systems and procedures for cloud computing manufacturing processes. This includes material storage, material flow, assembly of hardware components or devices into racks and servers (such as motherboards, memory, CPU, storage (SSD, HDD, NVMe) and PCIE devices).
• Manufacturing Sustaining:
  Lead the engineering of manufacturing processes for (L5 thru L9) assembly and server (L10) and rack (L11) level test and infrastructure deployment at our production facilities, including the implementation of system configuration changes.
• Manufacturing Infrastructure Expansions:
  Lead the site’s manufacturing infrastructure, layout, and flow for server and rack assembly, liquid cooling, and testing operations as well as future expansions planning, deployments, and assembly of other data center hardware / large factor assembly.
• Develop line layouts, process flow charts, simulation models, layouts, processes, line balancing, staffing models, and manufacturing quotes for existing operations, continuous improvement, and new business opportunities.
• Reduces manufacturing cost by optimizing processes and systems, e.g., modification of responsibilities or consolidation of tasks, elimination of non-value-added processes, and use of Best Practices.
• Introduces new advanced manufacturing processes including automation and along transferred capabilities from new customers into the Jabil sustaining manufacturing organization.
• Collects global manufacturing engineering feedback and identifies issues to be addressed by ME, IE, or other global functions.
• Defines, develops, and implements ME and IE strategies which support overall objectives, business development and Jabil’s strategic directions.
• Executes ME and IE activities in alignment with Jabil strategies, organizational goals and technology roadmap.
• Demonstrates a good understanding of LEAN Six Sigma and actively promotes the core principles throughout the organization.
• Creates training tools, documents and procedures for global baseline ME and IE competency training at sites.
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