
Industrial Engineer SME I
Jabil · St. Petersburg, FL
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Industrial
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 60+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Yesterday
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level industrial role at Jabil (industrial) in St. Petersburg, FL. Develop, sustain, and improve assembly processes.
- They ask for
- 60+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- 5S, FMEA, Time studies, Plant layout, Tooling, SAP
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 26, 2026
Industrial Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $86k–$125k.
Median of the low and high ends of 69 live postings that list pay, out of 273 industrial engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Florida plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 272 other live industrial postings in the US.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (60+ vs 5+)
Typical $86k–$125k, from 68 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Lean 62%
- ✓ Time studies 42%
- ✓ New product launch 37%
- Six Sigma 36%
- Root cause 28%
- AutoCAD 26%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for SAP, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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How to get in at this plant
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Industrial team at Jabil
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- 2
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is it more layout and capacity work, or time studies and standard work?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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- 5
Bring proof to the interview
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This plant: Jabil in St. Petersburg
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responsibilities
as assigned.
How will you get here?
Education
- ✓Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations Engineering, or a related technical field required.
Experience
- ✓Previous experience in Industrial Engineering within a manufacturing environment.
- ✓Experience leading cross-functional projects involving multiple functional organizations and/or manufacturing sites.
- ✓Experience with SMT, Backend/DF, assembly, box build, or other electronics manufacturing processes preferred.
- ✓Demonstrated experience implementing continuous-improvement, productivity, yield-improvement, and cost-reduction initiatives.
- ✓Experience with manufacturing process development, work measurement, capacity analysis, facility/workcell design, and process optimization.
- ✓Experience supporting program transfers, new facility startups, workcell launches, or manufacturing transitions preferred.
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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.
Project Industrial Engineer
Location/ Division Specific Information
This position may support multiple Jabil sites, facilities, workcells, and functional organizations. The role requires the ability to collaborate with cross-functional and multi-site teams to drive industrial engineering projects, process improvements, standardization, new facility and workcell startups, program transfers, and operational excellence initiatives.
How will you make an impact?
The Project Industrial Engineer will plan, design, implement, and manage integrated production and service delivery systems that optimize performance, reliability, maintainability, schedule adherence, cost, quality, and responsiveness.
This role will lead and support cross-functional industrial engineering projects across multiple Jabil sites, working with Operations, Business Units, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and other functional organizations to implement world-class manufacturing systems, processes, tools, and procedures.
The Project Industrial Engineer will drive continuous improvement throughout the product and manufacturing life cycle, with a focus on profitability, operational effectiveness, adaptability, customer satisfaction, and sustainable process improvement.
What will you do?
- •Lead cross-functional teams across multiple Jabil sites to identify, develop, test, and implement world-class manufacturing equipment, systems, tools, procedures, and processes.
- •Ensure current and future manufacturing processes and systems meet or exceed customer and regulatory requirements.
- •Review and promote improvements in customer metrics to support customer satisfaction and business objectives.
- •Act as a liaison between Operations, Business Units, and Jabil sites during program transfers, including providing input into transfer plans, timelines, data requirements, technology requirements, process and procedural requirements, and knowledge-transfer activities.
- •Participate in program launches and provide technical support as needed throughout the implementation process.
- •Provide technical support and assistance for new facility and workcell startups.
- •Provide mentoring, coaching, and technical assistance to site Industrial Engineering teams.
- •Lead and coordinate standardization of industrial engineering systems, procedures, tools, and practices across Jabil workcells and sites.
- •Ensure quality and manufacturing systems support customer, regulatory, and Jabil requirements.
- •Design and optimize human interfaces and manufacturing systems for SMT and Backend/DF operations, including:
- •Raw material delivery, storage, and line-feed systems.
- •Product flow and online material-handling systems.
- •WIP management, sizing, and buffer-storage systems.
- •Ergonomic workstation design and layout.
- •Process optimization and improvement.
- •Workcell and complete plant layouts.
- •5S housekeeping and workplace organization.
- •Develop, sustain, and improve assembly processes.
- •Conduct time-study and work-measurement analysis to establish and improve labor standards and process efficiency.
- •Own and drive yield-improvement programs in partnership with Operations, Engineering, and Quality.
- •Support box-build quoting and product-related industrial engineering activities.
- •Provide systems support for applicable manufacturing and business systems, such as SAP, MES, IEDB, and related platforms.
- •Serve as a subject matter expert or provide technical support in one or more Industrial Engineering disciplines, including:
- •Work Measurement
- •Systems and Metrics
- •Ergonomics, Workstation, and Line Design
- •Capacity Sizing
- •PFMEA and Design for Assembly (DFA)
- •Fixtures and Tooling
- •Simulation
- •Quoting
- •Warehousing
- •Analyze operational data and financial information to identify opportunities for productivity, capacity, quality, and cost improvements.
- •Lead change-management initiatives associated with major process, system, facility, and manufacturing improvements.
- •Develop and implement continuous-improvement and cost-reduction programs.
- •Promote best practices and lessons learned across Jabil sites and manufacturing operations.
- •May perform other duties and
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- •Broad knowledge and practical application of Industrial Engineering tools and methodologies, including work measurement, simulation, process mapping, facilities and workstation design, operations research, capacity analysis, and process optimization.
- •Strong underst
