Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

The Sr. Engineering Manager at Jabil is responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary engineering team 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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Drive improvements in engineering processes, tools, and workflows
• Enable faster development cycles through improved coordination and execution discipline
• Promote innovation and challenge legacy approaches
• 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

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

Benefits

At Jabil, we offer a competitive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and more. We also provide opportunities for professional development and advancement within our company.

Schedule

This role offers a flexible work schedule to accommodate the needs of the employee and the business.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $120,000 - $180,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.