Engineering & Facilities Maintenance Operations Manager - Food Distribution Center - Windsor, Ct

Target Target · Retail · Windsor, CT

Manages maintenance operations for a food distribution center, focusing on equipment reliability, team leadership, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include overseeing maintenance technicians, managing external contractors, ensuring safety procedures, and managing the lifecycle of various facility assets.

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
  • Previous supervisory experience in a team-oriented environment
  • Ability to read, interpret, and effectively communicate necessary policies and procedures
  • Ability to manage, lead, and influence others on a team while prioritizing multiple projects
  • Experience with multi-contractor management
  • Self-motivated

What the JD emphasized

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