Regional Director Supply Chain Engineering Food & Beverage
Minneapolis, MN - USA
Job Summary
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education work experience and 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 benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) employee discount short term disability long term disability paid sick leave paid national holidays and paid competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at us:
Target is an iconic brand a Fortune 50 company and one of Americas leading retailers.
At Target food is life. So its 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 lifefrom snack duty at soccer practice to important family gatherings and holidays. Join our centralized Food & Beverage team where youll partner with people from literally every area of the business. Here youll 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. Youll 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 PMs and CMs) efficiency (through strong partnership with Operations) and value extraction (OPEX and CAPEX management) of our assets to support Targets 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 PMs CMs and spare parts management
2. Exceptional critical thinking and structured problem solving skill sets plus the ability to broadly teach and train
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 PMs CMs 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 to understand and monitor E&F field spend across relevant building OPEX and CAPEX categories
2. Exceptional critical thinking and structured problem solving skill sets plus the ability to broadly teach and train
- Ability to quickly understand asset conditions and provide feedback to HQ Equipment Engineers to ensure effective lifecycle costing and value optimization
- Ability to quickly provide assistance to building teams struggling with major and minor asset escalations in partnership with the SCE Field Engineering team. Comfortable communicating with Sr. Director up to EVP level leaders demonstrating clear logical breakdown of a situation problem or recommendation.
- Ability to quickly assess field talent gaps and needs to support a world-class E&F organization.
- Ability to help specify training gaps in field support
3. Ability to quickly connect with all levels of employees and diverse teams while leading them through change and deliver top results
- Capability to tailor training and messages to varying audiences
- Strong ability to listen and synthesize messages
The ideal candidate is someone who has consistently demonstrated being a self-starter. Someone that leverages their initiative to drive the business and progress the enterprise forward. Someone who brings a tenacity to their work appropriately so that they are not phased by setbacks or roadblocks and can handle that in an appropriate and inclusive way. Someone who is curious to constantly learn new areas of Targets business and always asks themselves how we can do things better than we are doing them currently. Someone who enjoys building expertise in the small details but who can also think very strategically about where our business is evolving. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About You:
- 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
- Up to 75% work travel
Benefits Eligibility
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Application deadline is : 04/30/2026Required Experience:
Director
About Company
1234 employees
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation. The eighth-largest retailer in the United States, it is a component of the S&P 500 Index.