Plant Manager

Target; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Target in Cambridge, MA is seeking a full-time Plant Manager to drive performance and investment decisions. With a salary range of $133,000–$203,000, the role rewards seven years of machining experience with autonomy and team-driven growth.

You'll translate Target goals into quarterly roadmaps, optimize the supply chain, and champion process improvements that scale with growth. The position emphasizes hands-on leadership, data-driven decision making, and a culture built on trust and learning.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Six Sigma with data-driven decision making.
• Ability to prioritize urgent items while maintaining quality.
• Willingness to revise opinions when data argues back.

Responsibilities

• Sequence rollout to avoid mass regional failures.
• Optimize supply chain for cost, speed, and reliability.
• Translate goals into quarterly roadmaps the business team can ship.
• Identify fixed vs movable hydraulics costs.
• Cut unnecessary steps in the approval chain.
• Champion scalable process improvements.
• Streamline workflows to reduce cost and improve efficiency.
• Turn QC data into a concise executive story.

Skills

Six Sigma

Resilience

Prioritization

Negotiation

Growth mindset

Job description

This full-time Plant Manager role puts you at the center of how Target measures performance and prioritizes investment. With $133,000 - $203,000 on the table, this manager role rewards 7 years of Machining with autonomy and team-driven growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Sequence the rollout so MA regions don't all break at once
• Optimize the supply chain to balance cost, speed, and reliability
• Translate Target goals into quarterly roadmaps the business team can actually ship
• Untangle which Hydraulics costs are fixed and which you can actually move
• Cut three steps out of an approval chain nobody loves
• Champion process improvements that scale with Target growth
• Streamline operational workflows to reduce cost and improve efficiency
• Turn messy Quality Control data into an one-page story executives read before coffee

What You'll Bring

• Hands-on command of Resilience, with Six Sigma as a close second
• The discipline to finish the boring 20% that makes the rest matter
• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back
• An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent
• A growth mindset and openness to constructive feedback
• Demonstrated knack for making the zero-bureaucracy feel manageable
• A knack for Negotiation that colleagues quietly come to rely on

Target writes the software that keeps business operations humming, all of it engineered in Cambridge, MA by a collaborative bunch. Curiosity outranks credentials on this business team, so bring questions, not just answers.

At Target, $133,000 - $203,000 comes with equity, learning stipends, and a flexible culture built around trust and growth.

Candidate outreach for this business opening is happening as we speak.