The Jobs engine is an Enterprise only feature, allows running CrushTask plugin based automation tasks, manually, scheduled in a timely fashion or triggered by user activity (when invoked as a user Event). It's a powerful feature offering advanced local or remote file processing capabilities, custom logging or sending out email notifications and some well beyond the scope of a MFT server application, like invoking a shell script, HTTP calls or SQL operations, IF/ELSE like decision making, text processing, etc. Our video tutorial covers the basics
http://www.crushftp.com/videos/jobs_events.mp4
The Jobs panel has three major sections, a list of available and active jobs, a designer panel and the scheduler.