Engineering & Facilities Operations Manager - Regional Distribution Center - Fontana, California

Target Target · Retail · Miller Avenue, Fontana, CA

This role manages the operations and maintenance of a regional distribution center's engineering and facilities, focusing on equipment reliability, team leadership, and continuous improvement within the supply chain. Responsibilities include leading maintenance technicians, overseeing equipment health, managing contractors, ensuring safety protocols, and driving data-driven problem-solving to optimize facility performance.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will 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.
  2. You will 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.
  3. You will develop a continuous improvement ethic in your team by following a daily process that is data driven and focused on root cause elimination.
  4. You will own accuracy and timeliness of performance metrics within your shift and will develop and communicate shift hand-offs to ensure continuity of maintenance efforts within the whole Engineering & Facilities team.
  5. You will manage the overall health, reliability, and life cycle management for all of the site commodities (material handling equipment, lighting, power distribution, backup generators, fire suppression and notification systems, balers, compactors, compressors, dock doors, HVAC, Over The Road (OTR) trailer fleet, Powered Industrial Truck fleet).

Skills

Required

  • Leadership
  • Supervisory experience
  • 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
  • Engineering or related fields degree, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • Self-starter
  • Ability to manage multiple complex projects and tasks simultaneously
  • Ability to set and adjust priorities of work
  • Inject an appropriate sense of urgency in resolving problems that hinder product flow

What the JD emphasized

  • reliability-centered maintenance culture
  • high equipment availability
  • continuous improvement ethic
  • data driven
  • root cause elimination
  • defect handling
  • breakdown elimination
  • planning and scheduling
  • safety procedures
  • life cycle management