Koch Industries

Disciplined Operations Leader

Koch Industries$110K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in manufacturing or operations leadership
  • Proven track record in implementing Lean methodologies and Daily Management Systems
  • Strong skills in facilitating teams and delivering coaching and training
  • Experience managing cross-functional projects and driving process adoption
  • Competence in using performance dashboards and operational data analysis

Responsibilities

  • Lead the implementation of the Daily Management System across various facilities
  • Establish standard management frameworks and deployment methodologies
  • Develop and oversee implementation plans and sustainability reviews
  • Facilitate improvement assessments related to management system maturity
  • Create and standardize action tracking and accountability systems
  • Design escalation processes and structured problem-solving frameworks

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life, accidental death and disability insurance
  • Retirement savings options
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Infertility and adoption assistance
  • Paid parental leave option
Full Job Description
Your Job

The Disciplined Operations Leader is responsible for developing, implementing, coaching, and sustaining a facility-wide Daily Management System that aligns business priorities with daily execution. This role partners with site leadership, operations, maintenance, reliability, quality, and support teams to establish disciplined operating routines, visual management systems, KPI ownership, Leader Standard Work, escalation processes, and performance review cadences that improve operational results and organizational capability. The role will support the Corrugated business segment, partnering with facilities and leadership teams to drive consistent deployment and sustainment of management system standards across operations.

The position serves as the subject matter expert and change leader for management system deployment, ensuring the organization's operating principles are translated into repeatable daily behaviors, accountability mechanisms, and continuous improvement processes.

This position is home based with up to 50-75% travel to support projects across the US.

What You Will Do

Management System Design & Deployment
  • Lead implementation of the Daily Management System roadmap across facilities, departments, and operating areas.
  • Establish standard management system architecture, governance, and deployment methodologies.
  • Develop implementation plans, scorecards, milestones, and sustainability reviews.
  • Facilitate site assessments and identify improvement opportunities related to management system maturity.

Action Management and Accountability
  • Develop and standardize action registers and accountability systems.
  • Establish processes for assigning, tracking, escalating, and closing actions.
  • Monitor overdue action items and facilitate prioritization reviews.
  • Ensure actions are linked to improvement opportunities and business objectives.

Escalation and Problem Solving Systems
  • Design and deploy structured escalation processes and response frameworks.
  • Establish escalation triggers, ownership, workflows, and communication pathways.
  • Integrate escalation practices into daily and weekly operating routines.
  • Facilitate structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis activities.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience in manufacturing, operations leadership, continuous improvement, operational excellence, or management system deployment.
  • Experience implementing Lean methodologies, Daily Management Systems, Leader Standard Work, KPI management practices, or similar operating systems.
  • Experience facilitating teams, delivering coaching and training, managing projects, and leading organizational change initiatives.
  • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving adoption of new processes, systems, or standards in environments without direct reporting authority.
  • Experience using performance dashboards, analyzing operational data, and maintaining visual management systems.


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, or equivalent certification.
  • Experience leading large-scale operational transformations.
  • Knowledge of Principle Based Management®, Operational Excellence, and Reliability processes.
  • Experience developing training curricula and leading capability-building initiatives.


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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