Koch Industries

Construction Performance Engineer

Koch Industries$80K — $95K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in construction, project controls, estimating, scheduling, or project management in industrial, infrastructure, or energy sectors
  • Proficient in data analysis using Microsoft Excel and similar tools
  • Ability to interpret construction or project data
  • Valid U.S. driver's license
  • Background in utility-scale construction or renewable energy is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Analyze construction performance data to identify trends and opportunities
  • Develop dashboards for real-time visibility into project execution
  • Track labor productivity and installation rates to inform decisions
  • Ensure accuracy of labor charges and project data
  • Build predictive analytics to highlight emerging risks
  • Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) principles for project control
  • Conduct time studies and workflow assessments for efficiency gains
  • Collaborate with project teams to enhance reporting and operational transparency
  • Train field personnel on performance management best practices
  • Standardize performance reporting processes across projects

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan options
  • Paid vacation and time off policies
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Infertility assistance and paid parental leave options
  • Support for adoption assistance
  • Focus on employee wellbeing and work-life balance
Full Job Description
Your Job

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Construction Performance Engineer to drive data-informed decision making across utility-scale solar construction projects. This role plays a critical part in improving project outcomes by delivering actionable insights into productivity, cost, and schedule performance-enabling field teams to proactively address risks and optimize execution across the jobsite.

Current Project Site Opportunities

Potential Locations: Georgia, Nebraska, Texas, Virginia

* Location subject to change depending on business needs

Travel Requirements: This is a full-time, site-based position that includes daily per diem and monthly home rotations.

This position is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

What You Will Do
  • Analyze construction performance data to identify productivity trends, risks, and opportunities across utility-scale solar projects.
  • Develop and deliver actionable reporting and dashboards that provide real-time visibility into installation progress, productivity, labor performance, and project execution.
  • Track labor productivity, installation rates, labor costs, and workforce utilization across subcontracted and self-perform scopes to support informed decision-making.
  • Ensure accurate labor charging, timekeeping, progress tracking, and project data integrity to strengthen cost and performance visibility.
  • Build forecasts and predictive analytics that identify emerging schedule, productivity, staffing, and cost risks, enabling proactive mitigation.
  • Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) principles to evaluate cost and schedule performance and support project controls activities.
  • Conduct time studies, workflow assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives to identify inefficiencies and drive productivity gains.
  • Partner with project management, construction, field engineering, and project controls teams to improve forecasting accuracy, reporting quality, and operational transparency.
  • Train and coach field personnel on productivity measurement, reporting tools, and performance management best practices.
  • Standardize performance reporting processes and best practices to drive consistency, scalability, and continuous improvement across projects.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience in construction, project controls, estimating, scheduling, or project management within industrial, infrastructure, or energy projects
  • Experience performing data analysis using Microsoft Excel or similar tools (e.g., formulas, pivot tables, or data summarization techniques)
  • Experience interpreting construction or project data (e.g., productivity, labor hours, installation rates, or quantities) to support decision making
  • Valid U.S. driver's license


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Background in utility-scale construction or renewable energy projects, including field-based roles (e.g., Field Engineer, Superintendent, Project Engineer)
  • Experience applying Earned Value Management (EVM) and developing forecasting models or predictive analytics to identify schedule, productivity, and cost risks
  • Experience using construction or project controls software (e.g., Procore, P6, Power BI, SmartSheet, InEight)
  • Experience leveraging data to drive process improvements, performance optimization, and better project outcomes


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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