Engineering Manager – Design & Configuration
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
Jabil is seeking a collaborative and technically experienced Engineering Manager Design & Configuration to lead a multidisciplinary team supporting the design release configuration and lifecycle management of complex power cooling and data center infrastructure products.
The team includes experienced and lead-level contributors across mechanical design electrical design CAD PLM/configuration and related disciplines. The manager owns people leadership priorities resource planning and execution accountability while partnering with technical leads who retain discipline-specific technical ownership.
This role supports both mature products and design-partner engagements where requirements interfaces and configurations may evolve. Success requires balancing technical risk workload and program priorities while maintaining disciplined CAD BOM PLM change-control baselining and release practices.
What will you do
Leadership & Engineering Execution
- Lead coach and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team including senior and lead-level individual contributors across product development NPI production and sustaining activities.
- Set clear priorities expectations and accountability; manage staffing development workload and capacity across multiple projects and product platforms.
- Partner with technical leads and program stakeholders to establish realistic schedules resource plans and deliverables based on product maturity complexity technical uncertainty and dependencies.
- Maintain clear accountability between engineering management and discipline technical leads: management owns people priorities capacity and execution; technical leads retain appropriate discipline-specific technical authority.
- Facilitate design reviews and escalations resolve cross-discipline issues and communicate technical schedule and resource risks with clear mitigation plans.
Design & Configuration Discipline
- 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 lifecycle.
- Strengthen PLM/configuration governance including revision management baselining effectivity lifecycle states and release readiness.
- Ensure disciplined ECR/ECN and change-control execution so engineering changes are reviewed approved traceable and compatible with released configurations and production needs.
- Establish reliable release practices from evolving engineering inputs through configuration-controlled production-ready deliverables and continuously improve data quality documentation and engineering workflows.
Cross-Functional & Lifecycle Support
- Partner across 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.
How will you get here
Education
- Bachelors 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.
Experience
- 8 years of engineering experience supporting complex electromechanical industrial infrastructure or similarly complex products with 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.
Knowledge Skills & Abilities
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters degree in Engineering Engineering Management or 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 is a plus.
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