Engineering Manager - Electrical Engineering - Remote

Jabil • Austin, TX

1d • $121,300 - $218,300 • Remote

About The Position

Jabil is seeking a collaborative, technically experienced Engineering Manager for its Data Center Infrastructure Engineering team. The role leads and develops an engineering team responsible for the design, development, release, and lifecycle management of complex power, cooling, and infrastructure products. The manager establishes priorities, strengthens engineering capabilities, and enables effective cross-disciplinary work while partnering with engineering, technical program management, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, robust, manufacturable, and dependable products.

The technical focus may involve Design and Configuration, including CAD and PLM functions; Electrical Engineering; or Controls Engineering. Across these areas, the position is responsible for people leadership, engineering execution, technical oversight, resource planning, and organizational development. The role may be performed remotely or based in Austin, Texas, and requires 25% domestic travel, with international travel described as rare.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, controls engineering, systems engineering, computer engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.
• At least 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.
• At least 3 years of experience leading, supervising, or managing engineering teams.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Comfort operating in 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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, and 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop an engineering team supporting product development, NPI, production, and sustaining activities.
• Establish team priorities, performance expectations, development plans, and a culture of accountability, collaboration, technical rigor, and continuous improvement.
• Plan and balance resources across projects, programs, and product platforms while monitoring workload, capacity, dependencies, and capability needs.
• Partner with technical program managers and engineering leaders to establish schedules, milestones, resource plans, and deliverables.
• Provide technical guidance and design oversight while enabling engineers to retain 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.
• Collaborate 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.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during the first year of employment
• Four weeks of paid parental leave
• Company-paid holidays: 11 in 2027 (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to yearly change
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Short-term performance-based incentive

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager