Functional Manager, Power Electronics Engineering

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.   How Will You Make An Impact? The Functional Manager, Power Electronics Engineering will lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for power electronics and related electrical engineering activities across customer and internal development programs. The role combines people leadership, functional capability development, resource planning, technical oversight, and cross-functional project support. This position supports strategic engineering growth areas such as energy storage, critical power, data center infrastructure, renewable energy, industrial power systems, and other high-power electrical platforms. The Functional Manager should have a solid background in power electronics or equivalent domains, enabling guidance of the team, effective risk review, and consistent engineering execution. The role works closely with system architecture, project management, mechanical & thermal engineering, manufacturing, firmware, product validation, quality, supply chain, and customer-facing teams. Location This role will be based on-site at our St. Petersburg, FL Gandy Lab with relocation assistance to St. Pete as a possibility for the right person. What Will You Do? The ideal candidate is a functional engineering leader with enough technical depth to guide a power electronics team, support project decisions, and challenge engineering assumptions, while spending most of their time enabling people, improving execution, and building long-term capability. A strong candidate will have hands-on technical experience earlier in their career, followed by increasing responsibility in technical leadership or engineering management. They should be comfortable working across functions, supporting customer-facing discussions, managing priorities, developing people, and creating structure in a growing technical team. Key Competencies People leadership and coaching; Functional team development; Engineering execution discipline; Resource planning and prioritization; Technical judgment; Risk management; Cross-functional collaboration; Customer and stakeholder communication; Continuous improvement; Capability roadmap development; Practical problem solving; Ownership and accountability.

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Leadership and People Development Lead, coach, and develop a team of power electronics engineers and related technical contributors. Define clear roles, responsibilities, and development priorities within the team. Support hiring, onboarding, training, career development, performance feedback, and succession planning. Assign engineers effectively across projects based on skills, workload, business priorities, and development needs. Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence. 2. Functional Capability and Engineering Standards Develop and maintain the capability roadmap for the Power Electronics Engineering function. Improve common engineering practices, design-review discipline, documentation standards, and validation expectations. Promote reuse of proven designs, lessons learned, reference approaches, tools, methods, and technical knowledge. Ensure engineering work follows appropriate processes for requirements review, risk assessment, design documentation, validation planning, and release readiness. Support continuous improvement of engineering efficiency, quality, and consistency across programs. 3. Technical Oversight and