Ammonia Refrigeration Manager — Lead Reliability & Tech

Target; Denton (TX); On-site; USD 73,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Employee discount

Paid time off

Job summary

Target is seeking an Ammonia Refrigeration Manager to lead the engineering & facilities team at a food distribution center in Denton, TX. You will drive reliability, safety, and efficiency for the ammonia refrigeration systems, ensuring high equipment availability and regulatory compliance.

The role requires hands-on engineering leadership, incident response, and coordination with HQ to optimize maintenance and uptime. Strong communication and problem-solving skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 2+ years field experience operating, maintaining, servicing industrial ammonia systems.
• Strong knowledge of common industrial safety practices and arc flash safety programs.
• Ability to be on-call outside of normal business hours for escalated incident support.
• Ability to communicate 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).

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop ammonia technicians, including performance reviews and onboarding.
• Maintain expertise across electrical, mechanical, and control systems of refrigeration.
• Oversee a single site food distribution center with a focus on uptime and compliance.
• Provide incident communication and escalation to HQ and field partners.
• Coordinate with vendors and ensure service levels are met.
• Develop plans for continuous improvement of the refrigeration system.

Skills

Ammonia refrigeration systems

Arc flash safety

Communication with leadership

Problem solving

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Target is seeking an Ammonia Refrigeration Manager to lead the engineering & facilities team at a food distribution center in Denton, TX. You will drive reliability, safety, and efficiency for the ammonia refrigeration systems, ensuring high equipment availability and regulatory compliance.

The role requires hands-on engineering leadership, incident response, and coordination with HQ to optimize maintenance and uptime. Strong communication and problem-solving skills are essential.