Senior Systems Engineer - Flow Center - Riverside, Ca

Target Target · Retail · Van Buren Blvd, Riverside, CA

Senior Systems Engineer at Target responsible for ensuring high equipment availability and optimizing system performance for material handling equipment (MHE) in a supply chain facility. This includes preventive/predictive maintenance, troubleshooting breakdowns, managing building automation, and monitoring the health of electrical, mechanical, and control systems, including conveyors, sortation, robotics, and AS/RS. The role involves training technicians and ensuring safety procedures are followed.

What you'd actually do

  1. use preventive and predictive maintenance processes, rapidly troubleshoot equipment breakdowns, and quickly restore equipment to service in support of successful operation of the supply chain facility.
  2. work with other Target engineers and operational partners to optimize the performance and flow of the material handling equipment and will lead building automation, continuous improvement, and new installation initiatives.
  3. serve as an escalated support resource during downtime events, ensuring proper processes and training procedures are implemented as part of root cause analysis, and you will proactively monitor the overall health of the building’s material handling equipment.
  4. use diagnostic software and tools to collect and analyze data to identify trends and recommend improvements to the building automation.
  5. conduct technical interviews for internal and external technician candidates, evaluate technical skills and abilities, and train and coach internal technicians.

Skills

Required

  • Electrical or Controls Engineering degree or equivalent experience
  • Industrial electrical hands-on experience and troubleshooting
  • Experience with installing and maintaining software and hardware
  • Strong organization and problem solving skills
  • Automated conveyor systems and controls
  • Work order management
  • Preventive/predictive maintenance procedures
  • Blueprint and schematic reading
  • Industrial Electrical
  • HMI interfaces and programming
  • Industrial Controls
  • Industrial Electronics
  • Programmable Logic Control (PLC) programs
  • Server based controls
  • National Electrical Code (NEC)

Nice to have

  • Available to work all days and shifts (24 hours a day, 7 days a week operation, including holidays)
  • 480V 3-phase, 110 VAC, and 24VDC systems
  • Robotics
  • Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS)

What the JD emphasized

  • high equipment availability
  • optimizes system performance
  • troubleshoot equipment breakdowns
  • material handling equipment
  • building automation
  • escalated support resource
  • root cause analysis
  • proactively monitor
  • material flow optimization
  • system controls logic
  • troubleshooting techniques
  • electrical, mechanical and control system communication aspects
  • Material Handling Equipment (MHE)
  • conveyor systems, sortation, robotics, and Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS)
  • diagnostic software and tools
  • collect and analyze data
  • identify trends
  • recommend improvements
  • technical interviews
  • evaluate technical skills and abilities
  • train and coach
  • safety procedures
  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Lock Out/Tag Out, Arc Flash
  • safe work environment
  • inspect, maintain, troubleshoot, repair, train, and coach
  • manage multiple tasks simultaneously
  • work well under pressure
  • Industrial electrical hands-on experience and troubleshooting
  • Automated conveyor systems and controls
  • Work order management
  • Preventive/predictive maintenance procedures
  • Blueprint and schematic reading
  • Industrial Electrical
  • HMI interfaces and programming
  • Industrial Controls
  • Industrial Electronics
  • Programmable Logic Control (PLC) programs
  • Server based controls
  • National Electrical Code (NEC)