Koch Industries

Controls Engineering Leader

Koch Industries • $110K — $130K *
Tulsa, OK 74133In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience leading engineering teams or technical organizations.
  • Experience with industrial control systems, automation, process controls, or related engineering disciplines.
  • Experience driving change, continuous improvement, or organizational transformation initiatives.
  • Ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions and stakeholders.
  • Willingness and ability to travel as needed to support business requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership and direction for a team of Controls Engineers.
  • Help develop and execute a long-term controls engineering strategy aligned with business and customer needs.
  • Challenge existing processes and paradigms - drive improvements in execution, standardization, digital tools, knowledge sharing, and engineering productivity.
  • Build organizational capability by coaching, developing, and empowering engineers.
  • Partner with commercial, operations, service, and product teams to improve outcomes across the business.
  • Establish scalable engineering practices that improve quality, reliability, safety, and speed of execution.
  • Identify future capability needs and drive workforce development plans to support business growth.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Paid vacation and time off.
  • Educational assistance programs.
  • Infertility assistance and paid parental leave options.
Full Job Description
Your Job

John Zink, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Controls Engineering Leader to help shape the future of our Controls Engineering team. This role will lead a team of engineers while helping drive the evolution of our control's strategy, technical capabilities, and ways of working to position the business for long-term growth and customer value.

This leader will partner across engineering, product management, project management, operations, sales, and service to improve how work is executed, develop scalable technical solutions, and build the organizational capabilities needed to support the next generation of our business to support customer needs. The ideal candidate is both a strong people leader and a change agent who thrives in environments where continuous improvement, innovation, and transformation are required.

What You Will Do
  • Provide leadership and direction for a team of Controls Engineers.
  • Help develop and execute a long-term controls engineering strategy aligned with business and customer needs.
  • Challenge existing processes and paradigms - drive improvements in execution, standardization, digital tools, knowledge sharing, and engineering productivity.
  • Build organizational capability by coaching, developing, and empowering engineers.
  • Partner with commercial, operations, service, and product teams to improve outcomes across the business.
  • Establish scalable engineering practices that improve quality, reliability, safety, and speed of execution.
  • Identify future capability needs and drive workforce development plans to support business growth.
  • Serve as a champion of innovation, continuous improvement, and Principle Based Management.
  • Lead technical and organizational transformation initiatives that improve how the team works and delivers value.
  • Ensure successful execution of engineering deliverables while balancing customer needs, business priorities, and resource allocation.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience leading engineering teams or technical organizations.
  • Experience with industrial control systems, automation, process controls, or related engineering disciplines.
  • Experience driving change, continuous improvement, or organizational transformation initiatives.
  • Ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions and stakeholders.
  • Willingness and ability to travel as needed to support business requirements.


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Expertise in combustion, emissions, vapor recovery, vapor combustion, or related industrial process technologies.
  • Experience developing engineering standards, work processes, or technical roadmaps.
  • Experience leading global or multi-location engineering teams.
  • Strong coaching and talent development experience.
  • Demonstrated success improving execution, productivity, or customer outcomes through innovative approaches.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.


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.

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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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