Functional Manager, Power Electronics Engineering
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Job Summary
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
Bachelors 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
Masters 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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