Production Controller - Food Dc - Upper Marlboro, Md

Target Target · Retail · Upper Marlboro, MD

This role is for a Production Controller in a Food Distribution Center. The primary responsibilities include staffing, planning, and achieving building goals for accurate and timely merchandise processing. The role involves monitoring plans, managing backlogs, ensuring adequate staffing and training, facilitating operational huddles, and participating in business plan development using trends and reporting tools to drive improvements in KPIs. It requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, the ability to motivate teams, and basic PC skills. This is a non-AI related role focused on logistics and operations within a retail supply chain.

What you'd actually do

  1. Play a vital role in staffing, planning, and achieving building goals to ensure the accurate and timely processing of merchandise to our Stores and Guests.
  2. Monitor plans and work in-process backlogs to consider impacts of future planning and staffing to keep the building balanced.
  3. Ensure the key is adequately staffed and trained to meet throughput commitments.
  4. Lead and facilitate all operational Management System huddles.
  5. Participate in the development of business plans, using trends and reporting tools to help identify and drive areas of opportunity within the building to positively impact KPIs.

Skills

Required

  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in all situations with great interpersonal skills
  • Strong reasoning, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Proven ability to motivate teams and manage conflict
  • Basic PC skills
  • Ability to access all levels and areas of the facility
  • Ability to interpret and understand policies and procedures and relate them to others