Site Engineering Manager

Overview

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 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.

This role is to support a new factory startup in Prince George, VA (onsite) manufacturing large form-factor equipment. The product will be large (shipping container size), heavy (50+ tons), and complex. This position will be part of the core factory startup and onboarding team responsible for building the operations and manufacturing staff, fitting out the building, and creating the process flow/work instructions from the ground up.

Skills to include: panel and point to point wire assembly, Medium Voltage, Low Voltage, and High Power Electronic assemblies.

How will you make an impact?

The site 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 Engineering Manager will adopt as its goals profitability, effectiveness, adaptability, responsiveness, quality, and the continuous improvement of large factor assembly manufacturing. This role also supports business development efforts with current and/or future customers and development or implementation of electrical /data center infrastructure manufacturing.

• Manages ME (manufacturing engineering) and IE (industrial engineering) activities with focus on key operational metrics for large factor assembly manufacturing operations.
• Lead and manage engineering projects related to the new factory startup, including equipment selection, installation, and commissioning for large form-factor manufacturing.
• Manufacturing System Development:
  Design and develop manufacturing systems and procedures for the manufacturing processes. This includes material storage, material flow, assembly of hardware components, electrical wiring, and full integration.
• Lead the engineering manufacturing equipment infrastructure deployment at our facility including the implementation of system configuration changes.
• Lead the site’s manufacturing infrastructure, layout, and flow for assembly, testing operations as well as future expansions planning, deployments, and assembly of other 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.
• 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.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project documentation, including engineering specifications, process flows, FMEAs, and work instructions.
• Hire, Coach, mentor and train site ME and IE resources.
• Support recruiting and retention of ME and IE talent.
• Ensure ME and IE succession plans are developed and maintained.
• Develops…