Operations Engineer

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education work experience and addition to your pay Target cares about and invests in you as a team member so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs which may include medical vision dental life insurance and more to help you and your family take care of your whole benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) employee discount short term disability long term disability paid sick leave paid national holidays and paid competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at Us:

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Right on pace with Targets distinctive retail brandTarget Store Operationsis continuing to transform the way it operates. Here your work directly supports the store mission to be the guest favorite through successfully developing and communicating the processes for operations style and experience new structures new operating models and new technology and utilizing workforce management activities for our 1800 locations nationwide. Store Operations manages and enhances the informational resources for researching and resolving operational issues while guiding and communicating with the field team and leaders who use them. Are you a customer service enthusiast who can actively listen to many points of view and then visualize how theyll perform when operationalized in a store Are you happy to partner with leaders as well as field team members who are often the experts on how well a process is working Can you creatively envision more efficient processes and how theyll deliver a better experience for guests and team members Do you possess the innovative mindset to question the status quo and the confidence to work under varying degrees of ambiguity and well-informed experimentation Then youll have success on one of our dynamic teams.

A role with Process Operations means a big opportunity to leverage operational experience process design and insights to create strategies that fuel processes like inventory replenishment setting product signing pricing and backroom organization keeping stores in stock to drive guest engagement by ensuring they find what they are looking for (and more).

Labor Engineering at Target Corporation

The Labor model is critical to building the Stores payroll plan and scheduling store labor to deliver the right Guest experience Targets sales goals and Targets strategic objectives. The labor model also allows Target to achieve expense goals by measuring and driving efficiencies in Store processes. You will use the labor model to forecast future workload to prioritize sequence and manage the capacity of Stores teams. The labor model also acts as the key input into a staffing model that determines the optimal staffing level for each store for the purpose of stabilizing team members hours increasing team members average hours and in turn increasing the productivity of the Stores team.

As a Labor Engineer in Store Operations you will:

• Be responsible for building and maintaining the Stores operational standards to ensure that Target is able to achieve various strategic outcomes

• Support designing testing and implementing optimal process solutions in stores by applying engineered standards to identify the most desirable outcome

• Use and own engineered operational standards to forecast future workload prioritize sequence and manage the capacity of Stores teams

• Function as a stakeholder on cross-functional project teams to deliver key strategic initiatives.

• Identify areas for productivity and process improvement through analysis and modeling

• Participate in events to test and measure process improvements from implemented changes

• Form strong partnerships within the Labor Engineering team Store Operations HR and Stores Finance

Core responsibilities of this job are described within the job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business need.

About you:

• 4 year college degree or equivalent experience

• Experience in an operational environment; retail or supply chain experience preferred

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to convey complex analysis to a wide range of stakeholders

• Analytical critical thinking and problem-solving skills

• Experience leveraging data analysis techniques and tools

• Ability to form relationships influence partners and peers

• Comfortable in ambiguous and rapidly changing work environment

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually depending upon what your role team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Benefits Eligibility

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