About the Role
The Mechanical Engineer leads mechanical design and integration for complex hardware platforms from concept through production release, owning key deliverables, driving issue resolution, and ensuring designs meet performance, quality, cost, manufacturability, and serviceability requirements.
Responsibilities
- Lead mechanical design activities for enclosures, chassis, structural elements, cable routing, and related assemblies across development phases.
- Own critical mechanical deliverables including design proposals, tolerance analysis, structural studies, drawing completeness, and release readiness.
- Drive mechanical issue investigation and root cause analysis during prototype builds, validation, and manufacturing ramp.
- Provide technical leadership in design reviews and ensure alignment of mechanical solutions with system architecture, thermal needs, and customer requirements.
- Partner with suppliers, operations, and manufacturing teams to improve design for manufacturability, quality, cost, and schedule performance.
- Support packaging, reliability, and physical integration concerns and drive closure of cross-functional product risks.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to method development, reuse strategies, and engineering best practices within the mechanical function.
- Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and status clearly to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
Requirements
- 5–10 years of relevant experience in mechanical design and development of electronics or complex hardware products.
- Experience working with manufacturing, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to deliver products into production.
- Familiarity with server, storage, networking, or rack-level hardware platforms is required.
- Strong problem-solving skills and proven ability to lead technical execution in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence project direction through technical leadership.
Skills
- CAD
- Tolerance analysis
- Structural investigation
- Release management for mechanical components and assemblies
Location
- Worldwide
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-10 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical field
- Master’s degree preferred
About the Company
- Jabil (NYSE: JBL) is 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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