Ammonia Refrigeration Manager

The pay range is $73,000.00 - $132,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In 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 selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

A role in Target’s Food Supply Chain is a chance to truly serve our guests with speed, freshness and quality. We strengthen the efficiency of product delivery and partner across Target’s Global Supply Chain to provide the highest quality food products to our guests—on time, every time. Here, your role might be extracting business insights from data, solving problem statements, conducting gap analysis and recommending focus areas for leadership. Or you’ll be an inventory management resource whose specialized point of view informs what we buy, from whom, how much and where it needs to go from there. You’ll leverage inventory positioning to achieve the best possible product availability, and establish and develop great relationships with our vendors to encourage on-time delivery. Or join our team in a food distribution center where you’re on the very front lines of getting product to the guest as fast as possible—a critical differentiator that keeps Target guests coming back for more

Ammonia Refrigeration Manager Position Overview

As an Engineering & Facilities Ammonia Refrigeration Manager, you will enable high performance of the supply chain facility by fostering a reliability-centered maintenance culture within your team that ensures high equipment availability and success for the operation of the supply chain facility.

Ammonia Refrigeration Managers in this role will;

• Be responsible for the leadership and development, coaching and performance management of the ammonia technicians, including but not limited to:
  • Providing constructive and critical feedback on work quality to enhance individual performance,  while ammonia technicians conduct preventive and corrective maintenance on the system,
  • Administering performance management and reviews
  • Oversight of all onboarding and completion of required training for new hires
• Maintain expertise across all electrical, mechanical, and control system communication aspects of our refrigeration systems, including but not limited to compressors, evaporators, condensers and all related ammonia refrigeration systems.
• Oversee a single site food distribution center, serving as a technical subject matter expert that can lead recovery efforts and provide effective troubleshooting during equipment downtime events as well as ensuring compliance with federal, state and local agencies.
• Provide incident communication and promote timely escalation to all partners at HQ and the field
• Seek proactive solutions and countermeasures to reduce unplanned downtime events within the refrigeration system.
• Possess the ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to be adept at providing technical leadership and mentoring to the E&F team.
• Possess the ability to inspect, maintain, troubleshoot, repair and train on the ammonia refrigeration system
• Conduct technical interviews for internal and external technician candidates, evaluate technical skills and abilities, and train and coach internal technicians
• Act as the 1st level escalation support for ammonia refrigeration system problems / alarms
• Manage refrigeration maintenance contractors conducting preventive and corrective maintenance on the system
• Coordinate routinely with third party vendors, ensuring adherence to contracted service level agreements
• Work with PSM coordinator to ensure onsite coordination requirements are met
• Ensure timely completion of work orders; repairs, and preventative maintenance and documentation of all maintenance activities
• Maintain thorough knowledge and facilitate site training on appropriate safety procedures and use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while maintaining equipment (Lock Out/Tag Out, Arc Flash, etc.), and ensure a safe work environment by eliminating potential equipment safety hazards
• Develop and implement plans for continuous improvement within the refrigeration system
• Maintain active partnership with fellow refrigeration peers and HQ Engineering team

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

About You:

• Minimum of 2 years field experience operating, maintaining, servicing, and commissioning industrial ammonia systems.
• Strong knowledge of common industrial safety practices and expectations, including experience with arc flash safety programs
• Capability to be on-call outside of normal business hours for escalated incident support
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, relating technical issues to business leadership
• Strong organizational, reasoning, analytical and problem solving skills 
• Proven ability to motivate and influence teams and manage conflict
• Ability to read and interpret schematics and technical prints
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel)
• Ability to access all levels and areas of the facility
• Preferred: Ammonia refrigeration systems CARO/CIRO

Benefits Eligibility

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected].Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.