Engineering and Facilities Operations Manager - Upstream Distribution Center - Suffolk, Va

Target Target · Retail · Suffolk, VA

Manages engineering and facilities operations for an upstream distribution center, focusing on equipment reliability, maintenance culture, team leadership, and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include managing maintenance technicians, optimizing material handling equipment, overseeing contractors, ensuring safety procedures, and managing the lifecycle of site commodities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Foster a reliability-centered maintenance culture within your team that ensures high equipment availability and success for the operation of the supply chain facility.
  2. Provide strong leadership to your Maintenance Technicians, Utility Attendants and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Software Technicians, and will cultivate a sense of urgency and quality focus.
  3. Deliver solutions for challenging problems, work with building leaders to optimize use of material handling equipment, manage external contractors, be on call for emergencies, handle multiple projects and daily activities, and meet tough timelines.
  4. Develop a continuous improvement ethic in your team by following a daily process that is data driven and focused on root cause elimination.
  5. Improve the reliability of the system through ownership in defect handling, breakdown elimination and planning and scheduling.

Skills

Required

  • Engineering or related fields degree or equivalent experience
  • Supervisory experience in a team-oriented environment
  • Leadership and development
  • Coaching and performance management
  • Problem-solving
  • Project management
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Safety procedures (Lock Out/Tag Out, Arc Flash)
  • Equipment maintenance and lifecycle management

Nice to have

  • Experience with industrial ammonia refrigeration (F&B Only)
  • Experience with material handling equipment
  • Experience with power distribution, generators, fire suppression, balers, compactors, compressors, dock doors, HVAC, OTR trailer fleet, Powered Industrial Truck fleet

What the JD emphasized

  • reliability-centered maintenance
  • equipment availability
  • continuous improvement
  • root cause elimination
  • asset management