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Lead Automation Engineer Design Engineering

Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Onsite $115,000 - $206,000 Full-time Senior

Design and manage world-class supply chain automation projects to enhance guest experience by increasing speed, accuracy, and efficiency. This involves owning complex projects from concept to deliverables, partnering with internal and external teams, and ensuring successful deployment of automation technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure Safety in design for all GSCL projects
  • Drive, Influence and Effectively Communicate strategies for the automation for process paths or technology advancements
  • Evaluate Technologies through creation of cafeteria plans to analyze and compare concept designs and options
  • Create, Foster and Maintain connections with key vendors and external industry stakeholders
  • Design and engineer material flow concepts/systems
  • Create Factory Acceptance Test Plans and Site Acceptance Test Plans following Target Testing Strategy as well as their execution

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 7 or more years of combined experience in material handling, automation, manufacturing, supply chain and/or distribution and logistics industries
  • Proven project management experience implementing multi-million dollar, complex capital equipment & systems
  • Experience in machine building design, station design and/or manufacturing lines
  • Experience in concept development, prototype testing, engineering design and managing the collaboration with Automation suppliers

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits and programs
  • 401(k) employee discount
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation

Key Skills

Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Project Management Machine Building Design Station Design Manufacturing Lines Concept Development Prototype Testing Engineering Design Automation Systems Safety Systems Risk Assessment CAD Software Collaboration Communication Problem-Solving Leadership Time Management Organizational Skills

About Target

Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop. For more information, visit corporate.target.com. Beware of Hiring Scams: Target will never ask you to submit personal information via a text message for a position. Target will only ask you to apply for positions through corporate.target.com/careers, or Workday, our applicant tracking system.

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