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.

Key Responsibilities

1. Team 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 Project Support

• Provide practical technical guidance during concept, design, prototype, validation, and production-support phases.

• Support review of technical risks, design trade-offs, project assumptions, and engineering deliverables.

• Help ensure solutions are robust, manufacturable, reliable, cost-aware, and aligned with customer and business needs.

• Work with project managers and system architects to align engineering resources, priorities, schedules, and deliverables.

• Contribute to feasibility assessments, technical proposals, customer discussions, and early opportunity evaluations when required.

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration and Execution

• Partner with system architecture, mechanical and thermal engineering, firmware, validation, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and project management.

• Ensure power electronics requirements, interfaces, risks, and constraints are clearly communicated across functions.

• Help translate customer expectations into practical engineering plans, assumptions, deliverables, and validation needs.

• Plan and manage functional engineering resources across multiple programs and priorities.

• Balance short-term project execution needs with long-term capability development.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Power Electronics, or a related technical discipline.

• At least 10-12+ years of solid experience in power electronics, electrical power systems, high-power electronics, or equivalent technical domains.

• Prior experience in technical leadership, functional leadership, team leadership, or engineering management.

• Experience working in cross-functional engineering environments involving electrical, mechanical, software, validation, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and project management teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Power Systems, Control Systems, or a related field.

• Experience with high-power or mission-critical electrical products such as energy storage systems, renewable energy systems, industrial drives, grid-connected equipment, data center power systems, or high-voltage power supplies.

• Experience supporting customer proposals, feasibility reviews, technical discovery, or early architecture definition.

• Familiarity with structured engineering practices such as requirements management, design reviews, DFMEA, root-cause analysis, validation planning, and design transfer to manufacturing.

• Experience developing engineering standards, training plans, capability roadmaps, or reusable design practices.

• Experience in a global or multi-site engineering organization.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical topics, risks, priorities, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to build team capability, coach engineers, manage priorities, and improve engineering execution.

• Good understanding of engineering development processes, design reviews, validation planning, technical risk management, and product development lifecycle.

• Ability to guide engineers, challenge technical assumptions, and support practical decision-making without being an expert in every detail.

Benefits You Will Receive While Working With Jabil:

Along with growth, stability, and the opportunity to be challenged, Jabil offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Medical, Dental, Prescription Drug, and Vision Insurance with HRA and HSA options

• 401K match

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Paid Time Off

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance

• Commuter Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program

• Pet Insurance

• Adoption Assistance

• Annual Merit Increases

• Community Volunteer Opportunities

 

 

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