Design Program Manager – Touch Display Control Products

Jabil; Saint Petersburg (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance with

401(k) match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Life/AD&D and disability insurance

Commuter benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Pet insurance

Adoption assistance

Annual merit increases

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

Jabil in Saint Petersburg, FL, is seeking a senior Project Manager to lead global design programs for interactive touch-display products and embedded systems. You will own scope, schedule, budget, risks, governance, and stakeholder communications to ensure quality, cost, schedule, and manufacturing-readiness.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in a technical field, 10–12+ years managing product-development programs, experience with PCBA, enclosure, and box-build, and familiarity with Agile

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, PM, Operations, or related field.
• 10–12+ years of experience managing complex product-development programs for integrated electronic hardware within a Quality Management System.
• Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, quality, change control, stakeholders, and phase-gate governance from concept through mass production and sustaining handoff.
• Experience coordinating global design teams, manufacturer teams, suppliers, and customers in a matrix organization.
• Experience with professional display, interactive touch, human-machine interface, control-panel, conferencing, industrial electronics, or comparable embedded connected products strongly preferred.
• Project management experience across PCBA design and manufacturing, mechanical enclosure development, and box-build manufacturing from prototype through production ramp.
• Agile or Scrum experience preferred.
• An equivalent combination of education, experience, and training may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Manage programs from requirements and architecture planning through validation, certification, production launch, and sustaining handoff.
• Develop and maintain integrated scope, schedules, budgets, resource plans, milestones, dashboards, risks, issues, and change controls.
• Coordinate global electrical, mechanical, optical, touch, firmware, software, quality, sourcing, supplier, test, and manufacturing teams; clarify ownership, dependencies, decisions, and deliverables.
• Manage customer and executive communications, design and readiness reviews, action closure, contract commitments, and timely escalation of unresolved issues.
• Oversee PCBA workstreams, including design reviews, BOM and component readiness, prototype and NPI builds, verification, production test, yield improvement, and production transition.
• Oversee mechanical enclosure workstreams, including materials, tooling, tolerance and fit, structural and thermal considerations, cosmetics, prototypes, and production qualification.
• Manage box-build integration and readiness for PCBAs, displays, touch modules, enclosures, cables, firmware, calibration, final testing, traceability, labeling, packaging, and manufacturing ramp.
• Ensure functional owners define and complete product requirements, design deliverables, compliance, reliability, and validation for touch performance, image quality, environmental, mechanical, electrical-safety, EMC, wireless, and representative-use conditions.
• Coordinate suppliers and manufacturing teams on tooling, component availability, qualification builds, test coverage, yield, end-of-life risks, cost, and recovery plans.
• Maintain customer satisfaction, confidentiality, and compliance with company safety, health, security, and quality procedures; perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Project leadership

Customer communication

Executive reporting

Negotiation

Meeting facilitation

Conflict resolution

Issue escalation

Global teams

Touch-display knowledge

Embedded electronics

English/Chinese

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, PM, Operations, or related field

PMP certification preferred

Job description

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?

Manage complex, global design programs for interactive touch-display products and related embedded systems. Own project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, governance, and stakeholder communication. Coordinate cross-functional design, quality, sourcing, supplier, test, and manufacturing teams while functional leaders retain technical ownership. Partner with customers and business units to define requirements, statements of work, milestones, validation, and manufacturing-readiness deliverables, ensuring projects meet quality, cost, schedule, supply-chain, regulatory, and customer expectations.

Location:

This role will be based on-site at the St. Petersburg, FL - Gandy Site.

What Will You Do?

Project Management

• Manage programs from requirements and architecture planning through validation, certification, production launch, and sustaining handoff.

• Develop and maintain integrated scope, schedules, budgets, resource plans, milestones, dashboards, risks, issues, and change controls.

• Coordinate global electrical, mechanical, optical, touch, firmware, software, quality, sourcing, supplier, test, and manufacturing teams; clarify ownership, dependencies, decisions, and deliverables.

• Manage customer and executive communications, design and readiness reviews, action closure, contract commitments, and timely escalation of unresolved issues.

• Oversee PCBA workstreams, including design reviews, BOM and component readiness, prototype and NPI builds, verification, production test, yield improvement, and production transition.

• Oversee mechanical enclosure workstreams, including materials, tooling, tolerance and fit, structural and thermal considerations, cosmetics, prototypes, and production qualification.

• Manage box-build integration and readiness for PCBAs, displays, touch modules, enclosures, cables, firmware, calibration, final testing, traceability, labeling, packaging, and manufacturing ramp.

• Ensure functional owners define and complete product requirements, design deliverables, compliance, reliability, and validation for touch performance, image quality, environmental, mechanical, electrical-safety, EMC, wireless, and representative-use conditions.

• Coordinate suppliers and manufacturing teams on tooling, component availability, qualification builds, test coverage, yield, end-of-life risks, cost, and recovery plans.

• Maintain customer satisfaction, confidentiality, and compliance with company safety, health, security, and quality procedures; perform other duties as assigned.

How Will You Get Here?

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Operations, or a related technical field; PMP certification preferred.

• 10-12+ years of experience managing complex product-development programs for integrated electronic hardware within a Quality Management System.

• Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, quality, change control, stakeholders, and phase-gate governance from concept through mass production and sustaining handoff.

• Experience coordinating global design teams, manufacturer teams, suppliers, and customers in a matrix organization.

• Experience with professional display, interactive touch, human-machine interface, control-panel, conferencing, industrial electronics, or comparable embedded connected products strongly preferred.

• Project management experience across PCBA design and manufacturing, mechanical enclosure development, and box-build manufacturing from prototype through production ramp.

• Agile or Scrum experience preferred.

• An equivalent combination of education, experience, and training may be considered.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong project leadership, customer communication, executive reporting, negotiation, meeting facilitation, conflict resolution, and issue-escalation skills.

• Ability to manage global cross-functional teams and deliver customer commitments on time and within budget.

• Working knowledge of touch-display architecture, including display and touch modules, cover glass, optical bonding, embedded electronics, firmware, connectivity, mechanical enclosures, and box build.

• Ability to manage PCBA, enclosure, box-build, manufacturing, verification, reliability, compliance, and engineering-change deliverables without serving as the functional design authority.

• Proficiency with integrated schedules, resource and budget tracking, dependency maps, risk and action logs, dashboards, change control, and phase-gate reporting.

• Fluency in English and Chinese is preferred.

Benefits You Will Receive While Working with Jabil

• Medical, dental, prescription drug, and vision insurance, with HRA and HSA options

• 401(k) match

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement

• Life, AD&D, and disability insurance

• Commuter benefits

• Employee Assistance Program

• Pet insurance

• Adoption assistance

• Annual merit increases

• Community volunteer opportunities

Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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