Sr. Equipment Engineer

The pay range is $71,000.00 - $128,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In 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 selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at ;br>
About us:

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America's leading retailers.

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

Target's Food Supply Chain is evolving at an incredible pace. We are constantly reimagining how we get the right product to the right guest even better, faster and more cost effectively than before. We are becoming more intelligent, automated and algorithmic in our decision-making, so that no matter how guests shop-in stores or on Target.com-we deliver the convenience and immediate gratification they demand and deserve. We are on a mission to win decisively over any competitor, with a seamless and superior guest service experience unlike any they can offer. Are you a critical thinker who seeks the root cause and can analyze both qualitatively and quantitatively? Are you a creative problem-solver who simplifies problems, quickly identifies solutions, commits to a plan and then positively influences others to execute it? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.

A role on the Automation, Asset, and Vendor Management Team within Food Supply Chain means being relentlessly focused on how we can drive Product Availability to our stores and guests through our relationships with 3rd party vendors as well as asset health within each Food Distribution Center. Our teams work with the agility our mission requires, and we constantly come together to implement and iterate new processes in record time. We're looking for exceptional people who are proactive, creative, independent, innovative, risk-savvy and comfortable working in varying degrees of ambiguity. You will work cross-functionally with external industry experts as well as internal Food & Beverage, Global Supply Chain & Logistics, and Store partners to support co-creation of solutions. These solutions will maintain or increase automation performance, improve speed and quality for replenishment activities, and reduce total operating costs. You will help scope a broad set of initiatives and ideas to help identify the specific problem, potential impact, and the resources needed to solve; you'll also be actively engaged in developing solutions alongside experts from across the organization including GSCL, Field Operations, Stores, and Data Science.

As a Sr. Equipment Engineer, Asset Management & Capital Strategy in Food Supply Chain, you will play a key role in supporting Target's supply chain network by effectively managing assets across the enterprise as well as supporting the strategy for future capital initiatives. This role supports ensuring optimal levels of reliability, efficiency, and business value of our assets to support Target's supply chain & logistics business objectives (current state and future state). This includes managing a combination of assets that have been running or in-place for years as well as new equipment that is early in their adoption within Target. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. More specifically, you will:

• Maintain working relationships with the operations teams running / managing the assets within Target's Food and Beverage facilities
• Support working relationships with vendors, driving performance accountability to meet and / or exceed Target requirements
• Support the development of overall asset management plans to shape the asset roadmap such as job plans, long-range capital investment plans, capital due diligence, and asset management system records
• Update operational expense budgets for each asset category, track spend rates, and support understanding any variances to budget through analysis and insights
• Work with cross organizational teams on the development of project plans including: scopes of work, project timing, and the handover to our Activation/Project Management team for executing the work
• Learn to be a subject matter expert and strong problem solver to proactively prevent technical problems as well as resolve technical issues during projects
• Communicate with a wide range of teams both in the field and at HQ, listen to and act upon feedback from partner teams, and craft messages to define problem statements, proposed solution(s), and address questions
• Oversee technical due diligence of FSC driven facility enhancements, as aligned with leadership

About you:

• Two or more years of engineering, logistics, supply chain, or facilities management experience
• Ability to effectively collaborate with numerous internal and external partners
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• 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 needs
• Poise and confidence in challenging situations
• Ability to listen to diverse agendas that drive long-term business value for Target
• Ability to use technical knowledge to develop and propose specific solutions to problems
• Willing to take risks, challenge the status quo and work under ambiguous circumstances
• Ability to travel, potentially on short notice, up to 20% of the time
• Preferred Qualifications & Experiences
  • Experience with asset management within operations
  • Experience leveraging Smartsheet as a tool
  • Financial planning experience (OpEx and CapEx budget development)
  • Understanding of operations within a distribution center (ideally a temperature-controlled environment) and/or technology within sites (Swisslog, Witron, etc.)
  • Experience with lean, six sigma, & other continuous improvement concepts & methodologies
  • Project management experience and / or certification
  • Financial planning experience (operational expense and capital expense budget management)
  • Experience with Maximo or comparable enterprise asset management application

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

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Application deadline is : 06/21/2025