Engineering Manager – Design & Configuration

Jabil • Austin, TX

6d • $121,300 - $218,300

About The Position

Jabil is seeking a collaborative, technically experienced Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team supporting design, release, configuration, and lifecycle management of complex power, cooling, and data center infrastructure products. The team includes experienced and lead-level contributors in mechanical design, electrical design, CAD, and PLM/configuration. The manager is accountable for people leadership, priorities, resource planning, and execution, while discipline-specific technical ownership remains with technical leads.

The role supports mature products and design-partner engagements where requirements, interfaces, and configurations may evolve. It requires balancing technical risk, workload, and program priorities while maintaining disciplined CAD, BOM, PLM, change-control, baselining, and release practices. The manager partners across engineering and business functions to support product development, NPI, production, and sustaining activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering Technology, or another relevant technical discipline; a suitable combination of education, technical experience, and training may be considered.
• At least 8 years of engineering experience supporting complex electromechanical, industrial, infrastructure, or similarly complex products.
• At least 3 years of engineering leadership, people management, or responsibility for multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience leading experienced engineers or technical leads across multiple priorities and lifecycle phases, including product development, NPI, production, and/or sustaining engineering.
• Experience with design reviews, CAD/BOM alignment, PLM/configuration management, engineering change control, baselining, product release, and technical issue resolution.
• Demonstrated cross-functional experience with mechanical, electrical, program management, manufacturing, quality, and supply-chain organizations.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, communication, and cross-functional influence, including the ability to lead senior technical contributors without displacing discipline-specific ownership.
• Broad understanding of mechanical and electrical engineering interfaces and their relationship to CAD, BOMs, PLM, and configuration-controlled product data.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle, engineering change, configuration management, baselining, release, and traceability practices.
• Ability to translate program objectives into priorities, resource plans, and deliverables; assess technical, schedule, and capacity risks; and drive mitigation and escalation.
• Effective technical judgment in fast-moving, geographically distributed environments with evolving requirements and interfaces.
• Ability to travel as required.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams spanning mechanical design, electrical design, CAD, and PLM/configuration, including senior engineers or technical leads.
• Experience with critical infrastructure, data center equipment, cooling products, electrical power-distribution equipment, or similarly complex electromechanical products.
• Familiarity with Creo and/or SolidWorks; EPLAN, AutoCAD Electrical, SolidWorks Electrical, and/or Edge Electrical; and PLM/configuration-controlled engineering environments.
• Familiarity with applicable IEC, UL, or related product standards.
• Experience with NPI, global manufacturing operations, team scaling, or project/program management.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team across product development, NPI, production, and sustaining activities.
• Set priorities, expectations, and accountability; manage staffing, employee development, workload, and capacity across projects and product platforms.
• Partner with technical leads and program stakeholders to establish realistic schedules, resource plans, and deliverables.
• Maintain clear accountability between engineering management and discipline technical leads, with management owning people, priorities, capacity, and execution.
• Facilitate design reviews and escalations, resolve cross-discipline issues, and communicate technical, schedule, and resource risks with mitigation plans.
• Drive consistent engineering standards and configuration discipline across CAD models, drawings, electrical schematics, BOMs, technical documentation, and PLM records.
• Maintain alignment and traceability among CAD structures, engineering BOMs, released documentation, and product configurations throughout the product lifecycle.
• Strengthen PLM and configuration governance, including revision management, baselining, effectivity, lifecycle states, and release readiness.
• Ensure disciplined ECR/ECN and change-control execution so changes are reviewed, approved, traceable, and compatible with released configurations and production needs.
• Establish reliable release practices and continuously improve data quality, documentation, and engineering workflows.
• Partner with Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Technical Program Management, and Product Management to resolve design, configuration, manufacturability, and release issues.
• Support prototype builds, NPI, production ramp, sustaining engineering, and significant design or field issues, including root-cause and corrective-action activities.
• Represent Design & Configuration priorities, risks, resource needs, and execution status in customer, business, and technical reviews as appropriate.

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, consisting of 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