Regional Director - Supply Chain Engineering - Food & Beverage

Target•Minneapolis, MN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Food & Beverage Supply Chain Engineering & Optimization team is at the heart of Target's perpetual reimagining, ensuring solutions are integrated across supply chain and store operations. This role involves cross-functional collaboration with experts from Global Supply Chain & Logistics (GSCL) and stores to co-create solutions that reduce labor costs and improve speed and quality for replenishment and fulfillment activities. The position will help scope initiatives, identify problem areas, assess potential impact, and determine necessary resources. The role also involves developing solutions with experts from Field Operations, Operating Solutions Design, Store Operations, TTS, Inventory Management, and Data Science. As part of the Supply Chain Engineering team, the F&B Regional Engineering Director will lead field-based Engineering & Facilities (E&F) teams within distribution centers to ensure supply chain assets (conveyors, sorters, powered industrial trucks, etc.) are maintained to meet 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 ensure the reliability, efficiency, and value extraction of assets to support Target’s Global Supply Chain & Logistics (GSCL) business requirements.

Requirements

4-year degree in related field or equivalent experience in relevant technical or engineering field
10+ years of Logistics, Supply Chain, Industrial or Reliability Engineering, or facilities management experience
Maintenance / Asset Management experience
Experience with Maximo 7.x or comparable Asset Management/CMMS software
Strong communication, teambuilding, and influencing skills
Strong foundation of mathematical/analytical principles
Highly proficient in independent problem solving, creating plans and delivering results
Ability to multi-task a wide variety of requests and tasks, confidently shifting and reprioritizing work based on effort, risk, impact, and customer
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
Exceptional critical thinking and structured problem solving skill sets plus the ability to broadly teach and train
Ability to quickly connect with all levels of employees and diverse teams while leading them through change and deliver top results
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.

Nice To Haves

Self-starter
Tenacity to work
Curiosity to learn
Ability to think strategically

Responsibilities

Regionally lead all field-based Engineering & Facilities (E&F) teams within distribution centers.
Ensure supply chain assets are maintained to deliver on current and long-term objectives.
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.
Support Target’s Global Supply Chain & Logistics (GSCL) business requirements.
Lead teams through change and deliver top results.
Partner with people from literally every area of the business.
Help dream up new ways to offer guests a reliably wonderful experience with the freshness, selection and value they expect and deserve from Target.
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.
Help scope a broad set of initiatives and ideas to help identify the specific problem scope, potential impact and the resources needed to solve.
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.
Ensure reliability (through PM’s and CM’s), efficiency (through strong partnership with Operations), and value extraction (OPEX and CAPEX management) of our assets.
Manage maintenance of critical asset categories.
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.
Understand and monitor E&F field spend across relevant building OPEX and CAPEX categories.
Quickly understand asset conditions and provide feedback to HQ Equipment Engineers to ensure effective lifecycle costing and value optimization.
Quickly provide assistance to building teams struggling with major and minor asset escalations in partnership with the SCE Field Engineering team.
Communicate with Sr. Director up to EVP level leaders, demonstrating clear logical breakdown of a situation, problem, or recommendation.
Quickly assess field talent gaps and needs to support a world-class E&F organization.
Help specify training gaps in field support.
Connect with all levels of employees and diverse teams.
Tailor training and messages to varying audiences.
Listen and synthesize messages.
Drive the business and progress the enterprise forward.
Handle setbacks or roadblocks in an appropriate and inclusive way.
Constantly learn new areas of Target’s business.
Identify opportunities for improvement.
Build expertise in details while thinking strategically about business evolution.