Designer

• Support design coordination activities for assigned brands, products, services, or experiences
• Assist in managing design projects from initial strategy and design briefs through concept review and final design delivery
• Work with internal teams and external creative agencies to develop design insights, concepts, and solutions
• Handle inquiries and project tasks of moderate scope and complexity under general guidance
• Follow defined design approaches, systems, processes, and procedures
• Coordinate with design community members and technical specialists to obtain design specifications, input, and guidance
• Contribute to design solutions supporting innovation, product, service, or brand experience goals
• Complete project assignments to continue professional development and build design expertise

Design Coordinator

• Design safe operating facilities for new and existing customers according to Xcel Energy construction standards and administrative instructions
• Provide distribution design project management, including complex designs
• Serve as the primary contact for future and existing customers
• Create cost-effective designs balancing customer needs with company standards and guidelines
• Manage projects from initial customer contact through post-project analysis
• Establish and manage construction work plans to meet schedules, design requirements, and financial or budgetary requirements
• Generate additional company revenue through contacts with new or existing customers
• Provide work clarification and direction to construction personnel when required
• Act as liaison between construction departments and customers
• Mentor and train Associate Designers and Designers
• Represent Xcel Energy with government officials, contractors, city agencies, vendors, architects, and engineers
• Obtain permits and easements in accordance with city, state, federal, and county requirements
• Execute contracts and agreements in compliance with administrative instructions and regulatory requirements
• Travel and overnight stays may be required
• Assist after normal business hours during emergency situations when needed

Distribution Designer – II, Senior, Principal

• Serve as an enterprise technical expert for the strategy, design, development, commissioning, and continuous evolution of refrigeration systems across Target retail stores
• Establish enterprise refrigeration design standards
• Provide technical leadership for refrigeration equipment, controls integration, refrigerant strategies, energy optimization, and lifecycle performance
• Partner with internal teams and external engineering consultants
• Ensure refrigeration systems support operational, food safety, environmental, and sustainability objectives
• Evaluate emerging refrigeration technologies
• Influence enterprise design strategies
• Mentor engineers
• Continuously improve Target’s refrigeration engineering practices

Lead Refrigeration Engineer – Store Design

• Support and potentially lead EPC contract negotiations with customers
• Support the project team in achieving scope and budget alignment, schedule alignment, integrated team experience, construction readiness, and excellent financial performance
• Assist with establishing and managing project budget and scope expectations, budget trending logs, and associated communications and resources
• Craft and manage project schedules and key milestones, holding team members accountable for reaching milestones
• Assist in regulatory approval and permitting processes
• Assist in preparing bid packages and contract manuals
• Support bid analysis and subcontractor selection
• Identify technical design and specification concerns and escalate as needed to achieve resolution
• Build relationships with people of diverse backgrounds and organizational levels
• Perform other duties as assigned

Design Phase Engineer I/II – Structured Cabling

• Lead business value and capability strategy for complex enterprise network decisions
• Partner with Network Planning & Design, Finance, Operations, Merchandising, Inventory Management, Product, Data Science, Engineering, and other enterprise teams
• Develop and evaluate future-state network design scenarios, including topology, node roles and locations, flow paths, inventory positioning, capacity, and service/reliability strategies
• Define analytical approaches and success measures for network design
• Translate network design scenarios into measurable enterprise outcomes, value drivers, KPIs, assumptions, constraints, and decision criteria
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize capabilities needed for the future-state network across infrastructure, process, technology, data, automation, inventory, and planning
• Develop recommendations connecting network architecture, flow strategies, capabilities, investments, dependencies, and implementation sequencing
• Lead business case development, including operating and capital impacts, ROI, NPV, IRR, inventory impacts, service benefits, risk, and sensitivity analysis
• Establish methodologies for valuing service, reliability, inventory productivity, speed, and other guest and business outcomes
• Quantify tradeoffs across service, reliability, speed, inventory, capacity, transportation, operating expense, capital, resiliency, and implementation complexity
• Lead cross-functional alignment on network and capability recommendations
• Drive clarity on decisions, dependencies, ownership, and sequencing from strategy through execution
• Influence leaders by translating complex network, operational, and financial considerations into clear recommendations
• Present recommendations, financial implications, risks, sensitivities, and key decisions to senior leaders

Designer jobs in Minnesota

Design Coordinator

Distribution Designer – II, Senior, Principal

Lead Refrigeration Engineer – Store Design

Design Phase Engineer I/II – Structured Cabling

Senior Manager, Enterprise Network Strategy – Network Planning & Design