Koch Industries

LIMS Administrator

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science degree required
  • 3+ years in an analytical laboratory setting
  • Availability for 24/7 emergency support
  • Willingness to travel 10-15% of the time

Responsibilities

  • Administer and maintain the laboratory's LIMS environment
  • Configure workflows, test methods, and user roles
  • Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues
  • Ensure compliance with various standards and regulatory requirements
  • Develop dashboards and KPI reporting tools
  • Manage user access and conduct training for personnel
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives within LIMS

Benefits

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

Flint Hills Resources (FHR) is currently seeking a LIMS Administrator to support our Corpus Christi refinery complex. This role is responsible for the administration, configuration, maintenance, validation, and continuous improvement of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). This role serves as the liaison between laboratory operations, quality systems, information technology, engineering, and external vendors to ensure the LIMS supports laboratory workflows, regulatory requirements, and business objectives. The position is accountable for maintaining defensible laboratory data, system security, audit readiness, and efficient data integration across the laboratory and enterprise systems.

Our Team

The Lab LIMS Administrator is part of the analytical laboratory organization supporting the Corpus Christi refinery complex. This role collaborates closely with laboratory personnel, IT professionals, vendors, and refinery stakeholders to maintain and enhance laboratory systems that are essential to business operations and decision-making.

What You Will Do

LIMS Administration & Support
  • Administer and maintain the laboratory's LIMS environment.
  • Configure sample workflows, test methods, calculations, specifications, reporting templates, and user roles.
  • Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate corrective actions.
  • Serve as primary contact for LIMS users, vendors, and IT support teams.
  • Manage system upgrades, patches, and enhancements.

Data Integrity & Compliance
  • Ensure compliance with:
    • ASTM D6792
    • ASTM D6299
    • Corporate data governance requirements
    • Support QC/QC activities
  • Maintain audit trails, electronic records, and electronic signature controls.
  • Support data integrity initiatives and defensible data practices.
  • Participate in internal and external audits.

System Configuration & Validation
  • Design and implement LIMS configuration changes.
  • Document system changes through change-control procedures.
  • Maintain validation documentation and testing records.

Integration & Automation
  • Support interfaces between LIMS and:
  • Identify opportunities to automate manual laboratory processes.
  • Develop and maintain data import/export routines.

Reporting & Analytics
  • Develop dashboards and KPI reporting tools.
  • Generate laboratory performance metrics and management reports.

User Management & Training
  • Manage user access and security permissions.
  • Conduct LIMS training for new and existing personnel.
  • Develop user procedures and work instructions.
  • Provide ongoing support to laboratory staff.

Continuous Improvement
  • Identify opportunities to improve laboratory efficiency and data quality.
  • Lead LIMS enhancement projects.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and software solutions.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Minimum of 4-year Bachelor of Science
  • 3+ years of experience working in an analytical laboratory.
  • Willing and able to respond to calls 24/7 for emergency response either in person or over the phone to support Lab LIMS issues.
  • Willingness to travel (10-15%)


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience in refinery, petrochemical, environmental, pharmaceutical, or manufacturing laboratories.
  • Experience with ISO9001
  • Knowledge of analytical test methods and standards (ASTM, EPA, ISO).
  • Experience with laboratory accreditation requirements.
  • Familiarity with one or more commercial LIMS Platforms such Sample Manager, LabWare, Biovia, etc.
  • Experience with Power BI
  • Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL)
  • Experience with Python


This role is subject to the Transportation Workers Identification Credentialing (TWIC) rule and requires the successful candidate to obtain a TWIC identification badge, allowing for un-escorted access to the facility within a specific time period.

This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

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.

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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