Engineering Manager - Electrical Engineering - Remote

Jabil; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-term incentive

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

Paid time off

Parental Leave

401(k) retirement plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Jabil is seeking an experienced engineering leader to guide a cross-disciplinary team across product development, NPI, and production support. The role emphasizes technical guidance, resource planning, and accountability in a fast-paced environment.

Ideal candidates will have a strong background in electrical design, systems engineering, and program management, with a track record of delivering high-quality, compliant products across global operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience with complex products or systems.
• Experience leading electrical design activities and teams.
• 3+ years of experience supervising or managing engineering teams.
• Experience supporting product development, NPI, production or sustaining engineering environments.

Responsibilities

• 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 and continuous improvement.
• Plan and balance resources across multiple projects while monitoring workload and dependencies.
• Partner with program managers and engineering leaders to set schedules and deliverables.
• Provide technical guidance and design oversight to empower engineers.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical mentorship

Project planning

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in engineering (preferred)

Tools

PLM

Configuration management

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.

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

How will you make an impact?

• 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.

How will you get here?

• 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 electrical design activities involving power distribution, protection, schematics, panel layouts, wiring, grounding or electrical compliance.
• 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 engineering processes such as design reviews, product release, configuration management, change control, validation or technical issue resolution.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• 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.
• Capable of assessing technical, schedule, and resource risks and driving appropriate mitigation and resolution plans.
• Able to provide effective technical oversight while maintaining clear 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.
• Comfortable operating 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 Qualifications

• Master's degree in engineering, engineering management, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading Electrical engineering teams.
• Experience with critical infrastructure, data center equipment, industrial systems, cooling products, power distribution equipment, automation or similarly complex products.
• Familiarity with electrical design, requirements management, PLM and configuration controlled or customer configured products.
• Familiarity with applicable industry standards and regulatory requirements, including IEC, UL, IEEE, ASHRAE, or related standards.
• Experience supporting globally distributed engineering and manufacturing operations using stage gate product lifecycle processes.

• Experience building or scaling engineering teams; project management experience or certification is a plus.
• A suitable combination of education, experience and training may be considered.

The pay range for this role is $121,300 - $218,300. Job-related, non-discriminatory factors used to determine the actual offered rate include qualifications and experience, geographic location, education, external market data, and consideration of internal equity. The anticipated close date of this job requisition is: December 31, 2026.

As part of the total rewards package, this position is eligible for a short-term incentive based on performance.

In addition, Jabil offers benefits to enhance your health, wealth, and resilient self. These include:

• Medical insurance plans.
• Dental insurance plans.
• Vision insurance plans.
• Paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment.
• 4 weeks of paid parental leave.
• In 2027, 11 company-paid holidays (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to change yearly.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Employee stock purchase plan.

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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