Operations Manager - Food Distribution Center - Thornton, CO

Target • Thornton, CO

2d • $73,000 - $132,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Operations Manager at Target’s Food Distribution Center in Thornton, Colorado, leads teams and operations with a focus on safety, leadership, excellence, problem-solving, and teamwork. The role fosters a safety-first culture through awareness, training, and accountability, and supports team productivity, growth, and development through inclusive leadership and constructive feedback.

The manager ensures operational plans are executed, performance and budget goals are achieved, and teams remain informed and coordinated across functions. The role also involves improving efficiency through new process approaches and future process-flow optimization, identifying root causes, testing solutions, and helping teams meet business goals. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, including the ability to engage and motivate others.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Good reasoning, conflict-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to access all areas of the Distribution Center, including mezzanine platforms.
• Ability to read and interpret necessary policies and procedures, perform updates, and operate Distribution Center systems and programs, including traversing conveyor crossovers.

Responsibilities

• Foster a safety-first culture through awareness, training, and accountability.
• Lead inclusively and support the team’s productivity, growth, and development.
• Provide real-time observation and specific, constructive, actionable feedback.
• Ensure operational plans are executed and performance and budget goals are achieved.
• Keep teams informed and coordinated across functions.
• Innovate with new approaches to processes and methods to improve efficiency and optimize future process flow.
• Identify root causes of problems and support calculated risk-taking and testing.
• Help teams meet business goals.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and their dependents may receive comprehensive health benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager