Operations Manager (starting Summer 2026) Regional Distribution Center - Fridley, Mn

Target Target · Retail · Fridley, MN

Operations Manager role at Target's Distribution Center, focusing on safety, leadership, productivity, and process optimization. This is an entry-level position starting in Summer 2026.

What you'd actually do

  1. Foster a “safety first” culture through awareness, training and accountability.
  2. Establish yourself as an engaging and inclusive leader with ownership for the team’s ability to maximize its productivity, growth and development.
  3. Create a positive work environment though real-time observation and specific, constructive and actionable feedback.
  4. Working with a sense of urgency will help ensure that ensure that operational plans are executed, performance and budget goals are achieved and teams are kept informed and coordinated across functions.
  5. Innovate with new approaches to process and method, all in the name of more efficiency and implementing future process flow optimization.

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrated leadership ability, with the ability to engage and motivate others
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
  • Good reasoning, conflict-management, and analytical and problem-solving skills

Nice to have

  • Four-year degree or equivalent experience
  • Able to access all areas of the Distribution Center, including the mezzanine platforms
  • Able to read and interpret necessary policies and procedures to perform updates and operate systems and other programs within the Distribution Center, for example, ability to traverse conveyor crossovers