Koch Industries

Instrumentation Lead

Koch Industries$110K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate's degree or higher in engineering or technology discipline
  • Experience with EPC project flow in refinery, chemical, power plant, or midstream industries
  • Working knowledge of API, PIP, ASME, ISA standards.

Responsibilities

  • Lead instrumentation scope across project lifecycle from development to commissioning
  • Review and markup P&IDs for compliance and accurate documentation
  • Own specification and procurement of various instrumentation
  • Collaborate with vendors and procurement for timely delivery
  • Review equipment packages to ensure project specification compliance
  • Coordinate with multiple teams to achieve project objectives
  • Maintain accurate project documentation and databases
  • Support construction and commissioning by resolving technical issues
  • Build relationships with clients, vendors, and internal teams
  • Develop team capabilities through coaching and knowledge sharing.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Optimized Process Designs (OPD), a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking an Instrumentation Lead to join their team. The role is responsible for leading and managing the specification and procurement of all instrumentation in an EPC project, from early development phase to commissioning and turnover. The ideal candidate for this role will have experience with customer interaction, detailed design to construction and has previously worked in SmartPlant Instrumentation (SPI). This role will not only be the point person on a project for Instrumentation, but will also participate in instrumentation specification and design.

This role will sit at our headquarters in Katy, TX Monday - Friday.

This role is not open to Visa sponsorship.

What You Will Do

  • Lead the Instrumentation scope throughout the project lifecycle, from project development through commissioning and turnover, ensuring safe and timely project execution.
  • Develop, review, and markup P&IDs to ensure compliance with company, client, ISA, and applicable industry standards while maintaining accurate project documentation within SPI.
  • Own the specification, selection and procurement of instrumentation, including control valves, regulators, flowmeters, and pressure, temperature, level and flow measurement devices.
  • Collaborate with vendors and procurement teams to obtain quotations, perform technical bid evaluations, issue purchase orders, and ensure instrumentation is delivered to support project and field installation schedules.
  • Review equipment packages and instrument installation requirements to ensure compliance with project specifications, client requirements, and constructability needs.
  • Coordinate effectively with Process, Mechanical, Civil/Structural, Electrical, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning teams to remove barriers and achieve project objectives.
  • Ensure maintenance of accurate and timely Instrument Indexes, Datasheets, Instrument Project Plans and Trackers, and SPI databases in accordance with departmental and project standards.
  • Support construction and commissioning activities by resolving technical issues and ensuring instrumentation readiness.
  • Build trusted relationships with clients, vendors, contractors, and internal stakeholders through proactive communication and a commitment to delivering value.
  • Develop team capability through coaching, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement of work processes and standards.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Associate's degree or higher in an engineering or technology discipline
  • Experience with EPC project flow in refinery, chemical, power plant or midstream industries
  • Working knowledge of Codes and Standards such as API, PIP, ASME, ISA, etc.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience using SmartPlant Instrumentation (SPI) software
  • Experience with Fisher control valve sizing software
  • Professional Engineering license


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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