Regional Director - Supply Chain Engineering - Food & Beverage(Remote Or Hybrid)

The pay range is $135,000.00 - $243,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family.

Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

About us:

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.

At Target, food is life. So it’s the mission of our newly integrated Food & Beverage organization to help our guests more easily discover the joy of food. We thrive on giving families new favorite ways to eat well and cook less, simply and affordably.

With curated in-store experiences and a streamlined assortment designed to inspire and save time, we understand the importance of food to our guests’ everyday life—from snack duty at soccer practice to important family gatherings and holidays. Join our centralized Food & Beverage team where you’ll partner with people from literally every area of the business. Here, you’ll help dream up new ways to offer our guests a reliably wonderful experience with the freshness, selection and value they expect and deserve from Target.

A role within the Food & Beverage Supply Chain Engineering & Optimization team means being at the heart of our perpetual reimagining while ensuring solutions are integrated across supply chain and store operations. You will work cross-functionally with experts from across GSCL and stores to support co-creation of solutions to reduce labor cost, improve speed and quality for replenishment & fulfillment activities. You will help scope a broad set of initiatives and ideas to help identify the specific problem scope, potential impact and the resources needed to solve.

You’ll also be actively engaged in developing solutions alongside experts from across the organization including Field Operations, Operating Solutions Design, Store Operations, TTS, Inventory Management and Data Science.

In this role, as part of the Supply Chain Engineering team, the F&B Regional Engineering Director will regionally lead all field-based Engineering & Facilities (E&F) teams within our distribution centers to ensure supply chain assets (conveyors, sorters, powered industrial trucks, etc.) are maintained to deliver on current and long-term objectives.

The field teams include: E&F Senior Operations Managers, E&F Operations Managers, Mechanics, Utility Attendants and Senior System Engineers.

The Group Engineering

Director will safely ensure reliability (through PM’s and CM’s), efficiency (through strong partnership with Operations), and value extraction (OPEX and CAPEX management) of our assets to support Target’s Global Supply Chain & Logistics (GSCL) business requirements.

This role has three “must have” skill sets:

  1. Significant diagnostic and assessment experience in the material handling and building asset management space, especially around the efficacy of PM’s, CM’s and spare parts management
  2. Exceptional critical thinking and structured problem solving skill sets plus the ability to broadly teach and train
  3. Ability to quickly connect with all levels of employees and diverse teams while leading them through change and deliver top results
Important sub-components of these skill sets are:
  1. Significant diagnostic and assessment experience in the material handling and building asset management space, especially around the efficacy of PM’s, CM’s and spare parts management
  • Experience with the life cycle management of integrated assets; considering impacts on people, process, and technology.
  • Strong ability to apply engineering methods and data analysis to monitor and manage the maintenance of critical asset categories
  • Ability to drive maintenance Best Practices: innovate, document, improve work methods, standardize, provide a safe work environment and require safe work practices, train, commission equipment, collect, measure, and analyze key performance indicators to improve processes and improve experience.
  • Ability
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