Koch Industries

Director, Workforce Development

Koch Industries$120K — $150K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher
  • Leadership experience in workforce development or related fields
  • Experience developing apprenticeship and career development programs
  • Background in leading enterprise change management initiatives
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute long-term workforce development strategy
  • Establish scalable workforce planning systems
  • Design and continuously improve apprenticeship programs
  • Build partnerships with educational institutions and workforce agencies
  • Lead workforce-related compliance requirements
  • Create leadership development strategies and succession plans
  • Use workforce analytics to improve decision-making

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan with employer contributions
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance and support for families in need
  • Infertility assistance and paid parental leave options
Full Job Description
Indeed Resume
DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is looking for a Director, Workforce Development. This role sits in DEPCOM's enterprise workforce development capability and supports workforce strategy, apprenticeship programs, technical qualifications, leadership development, recruiting partnerships, and workforce readiness initiatives across the business. The primary function of this role is to build scalable workforce capabilities that enable safe, predictable, and efficient project execution while supporting the company's long-term growth objectives.

Ideally, this position will be based out of our headquarters in Scottdale, AZ.

This role does not provide VISA sponsorship.

What You Will Do (Job Responsibilities)

Enterprise Workforce Strategy
  • Develop and execute DEPCOM's long-term workforce development strategy aligned to business growth, project demand, and operational priorities
  • Establish scalable workforce planning systems that anticipate future labor, leadership, and technical capability needs

Apprenticeship & Workforce Pipeline Development
  • Design, implement, and continuously improve apprenticeship and workforce pipeline programs that support craft, field leadership, and technical talent needs
  • Build partnerships with trade schools, educational institutions, workforce agencies, industry associations, and community organizations to strengthen external talent pipelines

IRA Compliance & Workforce Programs
  • Provide leadership for workforce-related compliance requirements, including apprenticeship and prevailing wage obligations associated with the Inflation Reduction Act and other applicable programs
  • Partner with Legal, Human Resources, Operations, Finance/Payroll, and project teams to establish governance, reporting, controls, and escalation processes

Leadership Development & Organizational Capability
  • Create leadership development strategies, succession plans, and career pathways that prepare employees for future leadership opportunities
  • Foster continuous learning, coaching, accountability, knowledge transfer, and professional growth across functions and project teams

Technical Qualifications & Skills Development
  • Establish enterprise standards for technical qualifications, certifications, competency management, and workforce readiness
  • Partner with Operations, Construction, Logistics, Commissioning, and Project Management leaders to identify capability gaps and improve training and qualification processes

Recruiting & Strategic Talent Partnerships
  • Collaborate with Human Resources and business leaders to align recruiting strategies, workforce forecasts, and staffing solutions with current and future project needs
  • Improve retention and career progression by connecting workforce development programs to meaningful growth opportunities for employees

Continuous Improvement & Innovation
  • Use labor market data, workforce analytics, KPIs, and business insights to improve workforce planning and decision-making
  • Leverage technology, learning platforms, and continuous improvement methods to improve workforce effectiveness and eliminate waste


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's degree or higher
  • Leadership experience in workforce development, organizational development, talent management, training, operations, or construction
  • Experience developing apprenticeship programs, workforce pipelines & strategies, career development initiatives, technical qualification systems, or compliance-related workforce programs.
  • Experience leading enterprise change management, cross-functional initiatives, and sustainable business outcomes
  • Willing and able to travel up to 25% of the time

What Will Put You Ahead (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Master's degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Workforce Development, or Education
  • Professional certifications related to talent development, workforce planning, leadership development, project management, Lean, Six Sigma, or similar disciplines
  • Experience supporting utility-scale renewable energy, EPC, construction, industrial, manufacturing, or infrastructure organizations
  • Applied exposure to workforce grant initiatives, labor market strategy, prevailing wage, apprenticeship utilization, and workforce compliance requirements
  • Experience implementing enterprise workforce management systems, learning platforms, competency frameworks, technical qualification programs, or organizational effectiveness methods


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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