Lead PLM & Configuration Engineer – Data Center Infra

Jabil; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Parental leave

PTO

Job summary

Jabil, a global engineering, manufacturing and supply chain partner, seeks a Lead PLM & Configuration Engineer to own end-to-end configuration control for CAD models, BOMs, and technical documentation within the PLM system. You will ensure revision management, baselining, and lifecycle states across domains, driving data integrity and audit readiness.

This individual contributor role requires coordinating across mechanical, electrical, and documentation teams, enforcing ECR/ECN workflows, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience in PLM, configuration management, or product data governance within complex engineering environments.
• Deep understanding of PLM systems, engineering change processes, and release workflows.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional engineering activities across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end configuration control for CAD models, BOMs, and technical documentation within the PLM system.
• Ensure accurate revision management, baselining, effectivity, lifecycle states, and release readiness across all engineering artifacts.
• Maintain alignment between CAD structures, EBOMs, MBOMs, and released documentation.
• Serve as the authoritative source for released product data, ensuring integrity, traceability, and audit readiness.
• Own and enforce ECR/ECN workflows, ensuring changes are properly reviewed, approved, and traceable.
• Manage as-designed versus as-built alignment across product variants and lifecycle phases.
• Coordinate engineering release activities across mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, quality, and documentation teams.
• Drive resolution of configuration, release, and data quality issues to support program schedules and business objectives.
• Lead release readiness reviews, change control boards, and cross-functional working sessions.
• Facilitate prioritization, action-item tracking, and issue resolution across engineering teams.
• Identify and remove blockers, manage dependencies, and drive accountability without direct supervisory authority.
• Apply Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or similar execution methodologies to improve engineering workflow efficiency and predictability.
• Define and enforce naming conventions, metadata standards, classification structures, and release criteria.
• Resolve configuration discrepancies, duplicate records, and data integrity issues.
• Continuously improve PLM, configuration management, and release processes to increase engineering velocity and data quality.
• Develop and maintain configuration management standards, best practices, and governance procedures.
• Ensure PLM data structures support customer audits, compliance requirements, and quality management systems.
• Maintain traceable records linking requirements, designs, changes, configurations, and released products.
• Support customer, regulatory, and internal audits through configuration history, impact analysis, and documentation retrieval.

Skills

PLM

Configuration management

BOM management

CAD

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile / Scrum

Data governance

Audit readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Jabil, a global engineering, manufacturing and supply chain partner, seeks a Lead PLM & Configuration Engineer to own end-to-end configuration control for CAD models, BOMs, and technical documentation within the PLM system. You will ensure revision management, baselining, and lifecycle states across domains, driving data integrity and audit readiness.

This individual contributor role requires coordinating across mechanical, electrical, and documentation teams, enforcing ECR/ECN workflows, and