Production Controller - Food DC - Upper Marlboro, MD

Target • Upper Marlboro, MD

7d • $73,000 - $132,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Production Controller, you’ll play a vital role in staffing, planning, and achieving building goals to ensure the accurate and timely processing of merchandise to our Stores and Guests. You’ll help to educate executives on the importance of accurately staffing their teams to ensure positive daily and weekly results. You’ll monitor plans and work in process backlogs to consider impacts of future planning and staffing to keep the building balanced, and play a crucial role to drive priorities and contingency plans to support positive results for your building. You’ll work with executives to bridge gaps in attainment of plans, Service Level Agreements and budget to initiate continuous improvement. You’ll also participate in bi-weekly Production Controller conference calls to stay current on events and updates to tools and processes, and communicate these updates to the executive team appropriately to minimize the impact on workload. You’ll participate in long-term staffing discussions with Headquarters partners as well as building executives, considering the impact on cross-training, seasonal strategies, the mass-posting process and the impact of overtime. Additionally, part of your daily routines will consist of department floor walks with Sr. Operations Managers and Operations Managers to understand product flow and building capacity to participate in the development of business plans, using trend graphs and reporting tools to help identify and drive areas of opportunity within the building to positively impact KPM. As a Production Controller, you’ll play a vital role in supporting the overall business performance for your team! Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• Four year degree or equivalent experience
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in all situations with great interpersonal skills
• Strong reasoning, analytical and problem solving skills
• Proven ability to motivate teams and manage conflict
• Basic PC skills
• Ability to access all levels and areas of the facility
• Ability to interpret and understand policies and procedures and relate them to others

Responsibilities

• Staffing, planning, and achieving building goals for accurate and timely processing of merchandise.
• Educating executives on the importance of accurate team staffing for positive daily and weekly results.
• Monitoring plans and work in process backlogs to consider impacts of future planning and staffing.
• Driving priorities and contingency plans to support positive building results.
• Working with executives to bridge gaps in attainment of plans, Service Level Agreements, and budget to initiate continuous improvement.
• Participating in bi-weekly Production Controller conference calls to stay current on events and updates to tools and processes.
• Communicating updates from conference calls to the executive team to minimize workload impact.
• Participating in long-term staffing discussions with Headquarters partners and building executives.
• Conducting department floor walks with Sr. Operations Managers and Operations Managers to understand product flow and building capacity.
• Participating in the development of business plans using trend graphs and reporting tools.
• Identifying and driving areas of opportunity within the building to positively impact KPM.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs (medical, vision, dental, life insurance)
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation
• Shift differential

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree