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Distribution Operations Manager jobs are open across retail, e-commerce, food and beverage, and third-party logistics, at every level from operations supervisor to senior director, with specializations in warehouse management, supply chain optimization, and inventory control. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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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 career in Supply Chain means being at the forefront of delivering products to guests with speed, precision, and reliability, one of the most critical differentiators in today’s competitive landscape. As a Sr. Engineering & Facilities Maintenance Manager, you will lead the execution of engineering strategies that ensure operational excellence, asset reliability, and sustainable performance across the network. This role goes beyond maintenance—it’s about driving innovation, optimizing systems, and enabling a resilient infrastructure that empowers thousands of team members and delights millions of guests worldwide.
As a Sr. Engineering & Facilities Maintenance Manager, you will serve as a strategic leader responsible for ensuring maximum system uptime, operational continuity, and long-term infrastructure sustainability. You’ll champion a safety-first culture through proactive risk management, advanced training programs, and accountability frameworks. This role empowers you to leverage emerging technologies, preventive maintenance, and data-driven strategies to optimize performance and reduce total cost of ownership. Through strong cross-functional partnerships, you will enable operational leaders to exceed standards for service, quality, and productivity.
Maintenance Reliability:
You will oversee all engineering and maintenance operations to ensure peak performance of material handling equipment, powered industrial trucks, conveyors, sortation systems, and related technologies. Drive reliability and efficiency through preventative maintenance, continuous improvement initiatives, and advanced analytics. Serve as a key responder for emergent events, including natural disasters and critical system failures, ensuring rapid recovery and minimal disruption to operations.
Budget Planning and Cost Control:
Manage operational (OpEx) and capital (CapEx) budgets to deliver strong financial performance while optimizing equipment lifecycle value. Partner with third-party vendors to ensure adherence to Service Level Agreements and deliver exceptional service. Oversee site improvement and construction projects from concept to completion, coordinating internal teams and external partners to achieve on-time, on-budget outcomes that support operational excellence.
Team Leadership:
Build and develop a high-performing team of maintenance leaders, technicians, facility attendants, and CMMS specialists who are passionate about continuous learning and improvement. Execute best-in-class asset management processes to maximize reliability, availability, and compliance. Collaborate with HQ Supply Chain Engineering on network standards, future growth planning, and implementation of network-wide initiatives for consistency and scalability.
Facility Infrastructure Oversight and Project Management:
You are a proactive, results-driven professional who thrives in dynamic environments. In this role, you’ll manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while ensuring alignment with organizational goals. You’ll also provide technical leadership and serve as a trusted mentor to facilities maintenance leaders, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. The core responsibilities of this role are outlined in this description; however, duties may evolve over time to meet changing business needs.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs
About you:
- Preferred 4-year degree in a relevant technical or engineering field, or equivalent experience.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills with a “safety-first” mindset.
- Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams across multiple shifts—including weekends, overnights, and holidays—while ensuring operational continuity, rapid decision-making, and talent retention in fast-paced, complex environments.
- Demonstrated ability to manage critical escalations and lead recovery efforts in a 24/7 operational environment, while confidently owning technical issues, collaborating cross-functionally, and engaging the right partners to drive timely and effective resolution.
- Extensive experience with material handling equipment (MHE), powered industrial trucks, conveyors, sortation systems, and large-scale integrated systems maintenance.
- Skilled in data-driven decision-making and statistical analysis, applying insights to improve reliability, efficiency, and cost.
- Familiar with Lean/Six Sigma, root cause analysis, standardized work, and continuous improvement practices.
- Proven ability to manage OpEx and CapEx budgets, oversee multi-contractor projects, and deliver results on time, in scope, and within budget.
- Experience in emergency response, crisis management, and business continuity planning to maintain operational resiliency during unexpected events.
- Adept at managing multiple priorities and complex projects simultaneously with strong follow-through.
- Ability to drive vendor partner performance and accountability
- Demonstrated expertise in overseeing a broad spectrum of material handling operations, ranging from manual processes to fully automated distribution centers, ensuring optimal efficiency, scalability, and performance across varying levels of complexity.
[F&B Roles Only]:
- Strong knowledge of PSM/RMP and IIAR standards
- RETA certification (CIRO or CARO) strongly preferred
- Refrigeration System Oversight - Lead the maintenance and reliability of ammonia refrigeration systems and other critical infrastructure in a temperature-controlled food and beverage facility. This role ensures safe, compliant, and efficient operation of refrigeration assets while supporting production uptime and facility integrity.
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_EAmericans 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 candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
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 career in Supply Chain means being at the forefront of delivering products to guests with speed, precision, and reliability, one of the most critical differentiators in today’s competitive landscape. As a Sr. Engineering & Facilities Maintenance Manager, you will lead the execution of engineering strategies that ensure operational excellence, asset reliability, and sustainable performance across the network. This role goes beyond maintenance—it’s about driving innovation, optimizing systems, and enabling a resilient infrastructure that empowers thousands of team members and delights millions of guests worldwide.
As a Sr. Engineering & Facilities Maintenance Manager, you will serve as a strategic leader responsible for ensuring maximum system uptime, operational continuity, and long-term infrastructure sustainability. You’ll champion a safety-first culture through proactive risk management, advanced training programs, and accountability frameworks. This role empowers you to leverage emerging technologies, preventive maintenance, and data-driven strategies to optimize performance and reduce total cost of ownership. Through strong cross-functional partnerships, you will enable operational leaders to exceed standards for service, quality, and productivity.
Maintenance Reliability:
You will oversee all engineering and maintenance operations to ensure peak performance of material handling equipment, powered industrial trucks, conveyors, sortation systems, and related technologies. Drive reliability and efficiency through preventative maintenance, continuous improvement initiatives, and advanced analytics. Serve as a key responder for emergent events, including natural disasters and critical system failures, ensuring rapid recovery and minimal disruption to operations.
Budget Planning and Cost Control:
Manage operational (OpEx) and capital (CapEx) budgets to deliver strong financial performance while optimizing equipment lifecycle value. Partner with third-party vendors to ensure adherence to Service Level Agreements and deliver exceptional service. Oversee site improvement and construction projects from concept to completion, coordinating internal teams and external partners to achieve on-time, on-budget outcomes that support operational excellence.
Team Leadership:
Build and develop a high-performing team of maintenance leaders, technicians, facility attendants, and CMMS specialists who are passionate about continuous learning and improvement. Execute best-in-class asset management processes to maximize reliability, availability, and compliance. Collaborate with HQ Supply Chain Engineering on network standards, future growth planning, and implementation of network-wide initiatives for consistency and scalability.
Facility Infrastructure Oversight and Project Management:
You are a proactive, results-driven professional who thrives in dynamic environments. In this role, you’ll manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while ensuring alignment with organizational goals. You’ll also provide technical leadership and serve as a trusted mentor to facilities maintenance leaders, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. The core responsibilities of this role are outlined in this description; however, duties may evolve over time to meet changing business needs.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs
About you:
- Preferred 4-year degree in a relevant technical or engineering field, or equivalent experience.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills with a “safety-first” mindset.
- Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams across multiple shifts—including weekends, overnights, and holidays—while ensuring operational continuity, rapid decision-making, and talent retention in fast-paced, complex environments.
- Demonstrated ability to manage critical escalations and lead recovery efforts in a 24/7 operational environment, while confidently owning technical issues, collaborating cross-functionally, and engaging the right partners to drive timely and effective resolution.
- Extensive experience with material handling equipment (MHE), powered industrial trucks, conveyors, sortation systems, and large-scale integrated systems maintenance.
- Skilled in data-driven decision-making and statistical analysis, applying insights to improve reliability, efficiency, and cost.
- Familiar with Lean/Six Sigma, root cause analysis, standardized work, and continuous improvement practices.
- Proven ability to manage OpEx and CapEx budgets, oversee multi-contractor projects, and deliver results on time, in scope, and within budget.
- Experience in emergency response, crisis management, and business continuity planning to maintain operational resiliency during unexpected events.
- Adept at managing multiple priorities and complex projects simultaneously with strong follow-through.
- Ability to drive vendor partner performance and accountability
- Demonstrated expertise in overseeing a broad spectrum of material handling operations, ranging from manual processes to fully automated distribution centers, ensuring optimal efficiency, scalability, and performance across varying levels of complexity.
[F&B Roles Only]:
- Strong knowledge of PSM/RMP and IIAR standards
- RETA certification (CIRO or CARO) strongly preferred
- Refrigeration System Oversight - Lead the maintenance and reliability of ammonia refrigeration systems and other critical infrastructure in a temperature-controlled food and beverage facility. This role ensures safe, compliant, and efficient operation of refrigeration assets while supporting production uptime and facility integrity.
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_EAmericans 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 candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
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Who's Hiring
- DHL53
- Target42
- Dewolff, Boberg & Associates21
- FirstEnergy14
- TJ Maxx9
Top Industries Hiring
- Retail
- Energy
- Insurance
- Automotive
- Manufacturing
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in distribution operations manager jobs.
- 3-7 years of experience managing warehouse or distribution center operations
- Proficiency with warehouse management systems such as SAP WMS, Manhattan Associates, or Blue Yonder
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, logistics, business, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience with inventory control, cycle counting, and shrinkage reduction
- APICS CPIM or CSCP certification preferred by many mid-to-large distribution employers
- Familiarity with OSHA safety compliance standards and carrier routing or transportation management systems
Tips for Your Distribution Operations Manager Job Search
Quantify throughput and efficiency on your resume
Hiring managers for distribution operations manager roles want to see volume metrics: units processed per shift, order accuracy rates, and cost-per-unit reductions you drove. Pull these numbers from your past performance reviews and put them in your bullet points.
List your WMS platforms by name
Warehouse management system experience is often a hard filter before a human reads your resume. Name every platform you've used, whether that's Manhattan Associates, Blue Yonder, SAP Extended Warehouse Management, or any other, so automated screening doesn't pass you over.
Target openings by distribution model not just title
A distribution operations manager role at a direct-to-consumer fulfillment center runs very differently from one at a regional wholesale DC. Filter your search by the company's distribution model so your experience aligns with what the role actually requires.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists distribution operations manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a labor planning scenario for interviews
Expect at least one behavioral question about managing staffing levels during peak season or an unexpected volume spike. Walk into the interview ready to describe a specific situation where you adjusted headcount, shift schedules, or temp labor to hit a throughput target.
Negotiate start date around peak cycles
Distribution networks have hard blackout periods, Q4 retail peak and post-holiday returns being the most common. If an offer comes near one of those windows, negotiating a start date that avoids the crunch signals operational awareness and protects your onboarding time.
Distribution Operations Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most distribution operations managers?
The companies hiring the most distribution operations managers right now include DHL, Target, and Dewolff, Boberg & Associates, with the largest share of openings in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand is concentrated among large-scale retailers, third-party logistics providers, and food and beverage distributors with multi-site distribution networks.
How many distribution operations manager jobs are remote?
About 22% of distribution operations manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most distribution center environments. The roles most likely to allow remote or hybrid arrangements are those focused on network planning, vendor compliance, or multi-site operations oversight rather than single-facility floor management.
How do you become a distribution operations manager?
Most distribution operations managers start in warehouse associate, shift supervisor, or logistics coordinator roles and build up to managing full departments. Getting hands-on experience with a warehouse management system, earning an APICS certification, and demonstrating you can lead a team through a peak season are the practical steps that move candidates into manager-level consideration. A degree in supply chain, logistics, or business strengthens your candidacy, but operational results carry significant weight with most hiring teams.
Can you get hired as a distribution operations manager without direct management experience?
It's possible to move into this role without a formal manager title if you can show lead or supervisory experience, even informally. Candidates who have trained new hires, coordinated shift handoffs, or owned a specific operational process like inbound receiving or carrier scheduling are competitive for smaller distribution operations or assistant manager roles that serve as a stepping stone. Emphasizing those responsibilities explicitly in your resume helps close the experience gap.
What does the distribution operations manager interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter or HR screen focused on your background and availability, followed by a structured interview with an operations director or regional manager covering behavioral questions about labor management, throughput, and safety. Many employers add a site tour or facility walkthrough to see how you assess an operation in real time. Final rounds often include a panel with cross-functional stakeholders from transportation, inventory, or finance before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to distribution operations manager jobs?
You can find and apply to distribution operations manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level, industry background, and preferred location, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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