Jabil
Jabil
Jabil is a global B2B engineering, manufacturing, design, and supply chain services company. Since 1966, it has worked with leading brands to develop scalable and tailored solutions across industries including automotive, defense, and healthcare. With operations spanning more than 100 locations, Jabil combines manufacturing expertise with a focus on sustainability, community engagement, workforce inclusion, professional development, and innovation.

Controls Engineering Manager at Jabil (Remote, Texas)

Lead Jabil’s controls engineering team across product development, production, and sustaining work. Guide technical execution, resource planning, and product lifecycle management.

Description

  • Lead and develop an engineering team supporting product development, new product introduction, production, and sustaining work.
  • Set team priorities and performance expectations, support employee development, and promote accountability, collaboration, technical rigor, and continuous improvement.
  • Allocate resources across projects, programs, and product platforms.
  • Track workload, capacity, dependencies, and capability needs.
  • Coordinate schedules, milestones, resource plans, and deliverables with technical program managers and engineering leaders.
  • Provide technical guidance and oversee design work.
  • Ensure engineering deliverables satisfy functional, quality, safety, manufacturing, reliability, serviceability, compliance, and configuration requirements.
  • Lead technical and design reviews and address cross-functional issues.
  • Share technical, resource, and execution risks with stakeholders.
  • Work with Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Design and Configuration, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Product Management teams.
  • Improve engineering standards, tools, documentation, release processes, change control, baselining, and traceability.
  • Support root-cause investigations and corrective actions for design, production, and field issues.
  • Lead workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, performance management, and organizational capability development.
  • Take part in customer discussions, business reviews, and technical planning.
  • Support global collaboration and carry out other assigned responsibilities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, controls, systems, computer, or another relevant technical engineering discipline.
  • At least five years of engineering experience with complex products, equipment, or integrated systems.
  • Experience leading controls engineering involving PLCs, embedded or industrial controls, building management system integration, instrumentation, automation, operating sequences, or system commissioning.
  • At least three years leading, supervising, or managing engineering teams.
  • Experience in product development, new product introduction, production, or sustaining engineering environments.
  • Experience managing concurrent projects, priorities, resources, and technical deliverables.
  • Experience working across engineering, technical program management, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and other functions.
  • Experience with design reviews, product releases, 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 and lifecycle, configuration management, and product release processes.
  • Ability to turn business and program objectives into executable priorities, resource plans, milestones, and team deliverables.
  • Ability to evaluate technical, schedule, and resource risks and drive mitigation and resolution plans.
  • Ability to provide technical oversight while maintaining engineering ownership and accountability.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership, influencing, communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to communicate technical and organizational information to engineering teams, management, customers, and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to work in a global, geographically distributed organization supporting multiple products and lifecycle phases.
  • Ability to identify capability gaps and develop training, hiring, or resourcing strategies.
  • Travel as required.
  • Preferred: Master’s degree in engineering, engineering management, or a related field.
  • Preferred: Experience leading controls engineering teams.
  • Preferred: Experience with critical infrastructure, data center equipment, industrial systems, cooling products, power distribution equipment, automation, or similarly complex products.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with electrical design, requirements management, product lifecycle management, and configuration-controlled or customer-configured products.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with IEC, UL, IEEE, ASHRAE, or related standards.
  • Preferred: Experience supporting globally distributed engineering and manufacturing operations using stage-gate product lifecycle processes.
  • Project management experience or certification is a plus.
  • A suitable combination of education, experience, and training may be considered.

Benefits

  • Performance-based short-term incentive.
  • Medical insurance.
  • Dental insurance.
  • Vision insurance.
  • Paid time off accrues at 3.07 hours during the first year of employment.
  • Four weeks of paid parental leave.
  • 11 company-paid holidays in 2027 (nine fixed and two optional floating holidays); the schedule may change each year.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Employee stock purchase plan.
  • Remote work option.
  • Travel opportunities.

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