JOB SUMMARY
The Sr. Engineering Manager is responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary engineering team (Electrical, Mechanical, Thermal, and Firmware) to deliver high-quality products and support business growth. This role owns organizational capability, execution excellence, and engineering strategy, ensuring alignment between technical delivery, customer expectations, and long-term business objectives.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Organizational Leadership & Strategy
- Plan, organize, and direct multi-functional engineering team organization to meet business objectives
- Translate business direction into engineering priorities, execution plans, and resource allocation
- Drive organizational scalability, efficiency, and capability development
Execution Ownership & Governance
- Oversee engineering execution across multiple projects
- Establish governance for technical decisions, tradeoffs, and risk management
- Ensure predictable execution through clear metrics, cadence, and accountability
- Align engineering outputs to schedule, cost, quality, and customer expectations
Cross-Functional & Customer Leadership
- Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, program management, operations, and quality
- Support customer engagement, including technical discussions, escalations, and strategic alignment
- Ensure a consistent and unified engineering position in external and internal communications
Technical Leadership & System Thinking
- Provide leadership on system design, integration, and cross-disciplinary tradeoffs
- Guide resolution of complex technical challenges
- Ensure high-quality engineering decisions and proactive risk management
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Drive improvements in engineering processes, tools, and workflows
- Enable faster development cycles through improved coordination and execution discipline
- Promote innovation and challenge legacy approaches
MANAGEMENT & SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Team Leadership & Development
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and results-driven team environment
- Coach and mentor engineers to achieve high performance and career growth
- Recruit, interview, hire, and onboard engineering staff
- Identify individual and team strengths and development needs
Performance Management
- Establish clear goals and performance expectations aligned to organizational objectives
- Provide ongoing feedback, coaching, and formal performance evaluations
- Monitor team performance against metrics and drive continuous improvement
Resource Planning
- Manage workload distribution and optimize utilization of engineering resources
- Align staffing to program needs and forecast future resource requirements
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 10+ years of engineering experience in product development
- 5+ years of leadership experience in engineering management roles
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams and multiple concurrent programs
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong organizational leadership across multi-disciplinary engineering functions
- Advanced communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level communication
- Exceptional drive for results and ownership of complex execution
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills in ambiguous environments
- Deep system-level technical understanding across hardware and firmware domains
- Ability to scale teams, processes, and organizational capability
- Strong customer engagement and external influence capability
- Proven ability to develop leaders and build high-performing teams
- Strong collaboration and influence across matrixed organizations
- Continuous improvement mindset with focus on scalability and efficiency
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.

