Senior Labor Engineer (Industrial Engineer)

Target is one of the best-loved and most recognized retail brands in the market. Our Insights, Strategy, and Growth team helps run the business today, while also focusing on the growing the business for the future. We do this by anticipating and effectively responding to challenges and fueling Target's growth—today, and into the future—regardless of the changes ahead. Here, you will work with internal partners and external agencies in a wide variety of roles. You will also have the opportunity to develop skills across our team superpowers, including consumer & industry insights, strategic problem solving, strategy activation, experimentation, and scaling new businesses. Do you love the idea of helping to shape Target’s long-term strategy grounded in guest and industry insights? Are you a champion for rigor and process to ensure successful strategic planning? Can you bring your energy and big ideas to the table in order to build momentum for new business opportunities? Then, bring your talent to the game and join us as we move Target forward.  

 
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, Target’s sales goals and Target’s 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 member’s hours, increasing team member’s average hours and in turn increasing the productivity of the Stores team.  

 
As a Senior 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 

• 2 - 5 years of 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 

• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills 

• Experience leveraging data analysis techniques and tools to inform business decisions 

• Demonstrated ability to form relationships, influence partners and peers 

• Manage and plan projects effectively 

• Manage and adjust multiple priorities in fast-paced environment 

• Identify, define and resolve ambiguous problems 

• Resolve problems that are without clear precedent