Senior Operations Manager - Regional Distribution Center - Galesburg, Mi

Target Target · Retail · E L Ave, Galesburg, MI

Senior Operations Manager for a Regional Distribution Center, focusing on safety, continuous improvement, relationship building, communication, and strategic thinking. Responsibilities include fostering a safety-first culture, guiding operational leaders, leveraging metrics and Lean Six Sigma for improvement, and motivating teams. Requires a four-year degree or significant experience in manufacturing, production, or distribution, with strong performance metrics, process improvement, communication, and leadership skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Foster a “safety first” culture through awareness, training and accountability.
  2. Guide other operational leaders to achieve established standards of service, quality, accuracy and productivity.
  3. Leverage a mix of key metrics, Lean Six Sigma, GEMBA walks and other activities to understand what’s working well and where to improve.
  4. Motivate and inspire teams and individuals to reach higher through championing their unique strengths.
  5. Set individual and team priorities and proactively structure resources to meet them.

Skills

Required

  • Four year degree or 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing, production, or distribution environment and applicable management/supervisory experience or 18-36 months as an Operations Manager
  • Experience with performance metrics and process improvement
  • Strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
  • Ability to handle changing priorities and use of good judgement in stressful situations
  • Ability to motivate others with strong conflict management and problem solving skills
  • Experience with the full staffing lifecycle
  • Flexible to work a variety of hours as business demands including overnight, weekends and holidays
  • Able to access all areas of the DC
  • Able to read and interpret necessary policies and procedures
  • Strong inclusion acumen

What the JD emphasized

  • safety first culture
  • continuous improvement
  • relationship building
  • communication
  • strategic thinking
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • GEMBA walks
  • process improvement