Senior Engineering Manager at Jabil Inc. — Austin, TX

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

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