Senior Technical Field Engineer - Receive Center - Houston, TX

Target • Houston, TX

7d • $88,000 - $158,000 • Onsite

About The Position

A proactive, technical leadership role supporting distribution center production, focusing on maximizing IT systems reliability and operational performance. Overall site responsibility for stability and technology services within the Receive Center based in Houston, Texas. Use your skills, experience, and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Strong technical aptitude and skills including network, server, telephone, and desktop experience
• Strong technical knowledge of operations hardware and applications
• Excellent communication skills and ability to manage vendor partners
• Strong reasoning, troubleshooting, problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to adjust working hours and be on-call for escalations on a 24/7 basis.
• Ability to support other sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for distribution center data center operations and IT systems functions being accomplished daily.
• Manage vendor resource and workflow to ensure technology service initiatives are supported and service level agreements are met.
• Monitor and respond to system alerts, ensuring timely resolution and minimal business impact.
• Agility in navigating unstructured environments and solving problems in real time.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration, adaptability, and the ability to lead through change.
• Ensure the distribution center data centers are maintained to predefined standards (prototype and best practice).
• Manage all technology system infrastructure within the distribution center.
• Understand different technology system platforms, applications, hardware and infrastructure and how they interact with and impact the distribution center.
• Lead preventative maintenance routines and environmental monitoring to ensure system health and uptime.
• Provide appropriate feedback and take follow-up actions to ensure Vendor SLAs are met.
• Provide necessary training and onboarding for vendor technicians servicing the distribution center.
• Coordinate with vendors and internal teams to support change management and incident resolution.
• Serve as the local point of contact for infrastructure projects, change coordination, and incident management.
• Drive continuous improvement through Kanban initiatives and proactive engagement with product teams.
• Maintain a development plan and pursue ongoing technical and leadership growth.

Benefits

• comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 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: Mid Level