Engineering Manager – Controls Engineering
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Engineering Manager leading controls and infrastructure engineering teams at Jabil, a global engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions provider. Driving product development, technical execution, and lifecycle management.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and develop an engineering team supporting product development, NPI, production, and sustaining activities
- Establish team priorities, performance expectations, development plans, accountability, collaboration, technical rigor, and continuous improvement
- Plan and balance resources across multiple projects, programs, and product platforms
- Monitor workload, capacity, dependencies, and capability needs
- Partner with technical program managers and engineering leaders on schedules, milestones, resource plans, and deliverables
- Provide technical guidance and design oversight
- Ensure engineering deliverables meet functionality, quality, safety, manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, compliance, and configuration requirements
- Facilitate technical and design reviews and resolve cross-functional issues
- Communicate technical, resource, and execution risks to stakeholders
- Collaborate across Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Design and Configuration, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Product Management
- Drive improvement of engineering standards, tools, documentation, release processes, change control, baselining, and traceability practices
- Support root-cause analysis and corrective actions for design, production, and field issues
- 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 assigned responsibilities
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, controls engineering, systems engineering, computer engineering, or another relevant technical discipline is required
- 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 functional organizations
- Experience supporting design reviews, product release, configuration management, change control, validation or technical issue resolution
- Ability to lead, motivate, coach, and develop engineers with varied technical backgrounds and experience levels
- Strong understanding of engineering execution, product development, product lifecycle, configuration management, and product release processes
- Ability to translate business and program objectives into executable priorities, resource plans, milestones and team deliverables
- Ability to assess technical, schedule, and resource risks and drive mitigation and resolution plans
- Ability to provide effective technical oversight while maintaining engineering ownership and accountability
- Strong cross-functional leadership, influence, communication, presentation and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate technical and organizational information effectively to engineering teams, management, customers, and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to operate within a global, geographically distributed organization supporting multiple products and lifecycle phases
- Ability to identify capability gaps and implement development, hiring, or resource strategies
- Travel as required
- Preferred: Master’s degree in engineering, engineering management, or a related discipline
- Preferred: Experience leading Controls engineering teams
- Preferred: Experience with critical infrastructure, data center equipment, industrial systems, cooling products, power distribution equipment, automation or similarly complex products
- Preferred: Familiarity with electrical design, requirements management, PLM and configuration-controlled or customer-configured products
- Preferred: Familiarity with IEC, UL, IEEE, ASHRAE, or related standards
- Preferred: Experience supporting globally distributed engineering and manufacturing operations using stage-gate product lifecycle processes
- Project management experience or certification is a plus
- A suitable combination of education, experience and training may be considered
Benefits:
- Short-term incentive based on performance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment
- 4 weeks of paid parental leave
- 11 company-paid holidays in 2027 (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to change yearly
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Remote work option
- Travel opportunities
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