Koch Industries

Assistant Reliability Manager

Koch Industries$88K — $105K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent technical experience
  • Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or heavy industry environments
  • Knowledge of reliability engineering, maintenance, and asset management
  • Ability to lead projects and coach cross-functional teams
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications

Responsibilities

  • Support execution of the site reliability strategy and improvement plans
  • Provide technical coaching for reliability engineers and technicians
  • Collaborate with various teams to improve equipment reliability
  • Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance strategies
  • Lead root cause analyses and defect elimination efforts
  • Monitor equipment health data to identify improvement opportunities
  • Develop reliability performance indicators and metrics

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plans and paid time off
  • Educational assistance and family support programs such as parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Toledo is seeking an Assistant Reliability Manager to help lead and execute the mill's reliability strategy in support of safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations. This role will work closely with the Reliability Manager and mill leadership to improve equipment reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, strengthen asset strategies, and create long-term value through Koch's Principle Based Management® framework.

The successful candidate will provide leadership for reliability engineers, condition monitoring resources, and cross-functional improvement efforts while partnering with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Planning to drive sustainable reliability results. This role requires a principled, contribution-motivated leader who demonstrates integrity, humility, stewardship, knowledge sharing, transformation, and principled entrepreneurship while helping others apply their talents where they can create the most value.

What You Will Do
• Support and help execute the site reliability strategy, asset management initiatives, and long-term reliability improvement plans.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and development for reliability engineers, vibration analysts, lubrication technicians, and other reliability resources.
• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Planning to improve equipment reliability and reduce production losses.
• Assist in the development and optimization of preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies.
• Lead and facilitate equipment failure investigations, root cause analyses, and defect elimination efforts.
• Monitor equipment health data and use reliability analytics to identify bad actors, evaluate risk, and prioritize improvement opportunities.
• Support vibration analysis, lubrication excellence, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and other predictive maintenance technologies.
• Develop and publish reliability performance indicators, asset health metrics, and program effectiveness reports.
• Collaborate with maintenance teams to ensure reliability findings are converted into high-quality corrective work.
• Provide reliability input for capital projects, major equipment repairs, outage planning, and design-for-reliability initiatives.
• Support equipment criticality assessments, asset strategies, and long-range replacement planning.
• Promote safe work practices by identifying risks, applying critical controls, and ensuring compliance with mill safety and environmental expectations.
• Apply Koch's Principle Based Management® framework by using sound economic thinking, respectful challenge, knowledge sharing, and long-term value creation to improve reliability performance.
• Coach team members to develop capabilities, close performance gaps, and contribute according to their comparative advantages while building mutually beneficial partnerships across the mill.
• Work a flexible schedule, including occasional outage and weekend support as needed to support mill performance.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent technical experience.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, pulp and paper, chemical, power generation, or other heavy industry environments.
• Experience with reliability engineering, maintenance, predictive maintenance, asset management, or equipment troubleshooting.
• Experience leading projects, supervising teams, coaching employees, or influencing cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of preventive maintenance, precision maintenance, root cause analysis, reliability-centered maintenance, and asset strategy development.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications.

What Will Put You Ahead
• Experience in the pulp and paper industry.
• Experience leading reliability or maintenance teams in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with vibration analysis, lubrication, thermography, ultrasound, motor testing, or oil analysis programs.
• Certification such as CMRP, Category II Vibration Analyst, MLA, MLT, or equivalent reliability certification.
• Experience facilitating root cause analysis and defect elimination programs.
• Experience developing reliability KPIs, asset strategies, and reliability improvement plans.
• Experience with SAP, CMMS systems, OSIsoft PI, reliability databases, or predictive maintenance software.
• Experience supporting capital projects and reliability improvements for rotating equipment such as pumps, motors, gearboxes, fans, compressors, and conveyors.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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