Koch Industries

Lubrication & Reliability Leader

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in industrial lubrication
  • Strong troubleshooting skills for rotating equipment and lubricated mechanical systems
  • Ability to utilize equipment data and reliability metrics for decision making
  • Supervisory experience managing direct reports
  • Familiarity with CMMS tools for maintenance management

Responsibilities

  • Lead and promote a culture of continuous improvement and safety in lubrication activities
  • Serve as the lubrication technical expert, guiding strategies and best practices
  • Develop and coach lubrication technicians to achieve high execution standards
  • Improve lubrication programs and maintenance strategies across the mill
  • Oversee the oil analysis program and recommend corrective actions
  • Collaborate with various departments to optimize lubricant usage and extend asset life
  • Train staff on lubrication fundamentals and best practices
  • Conduct audits to ensure compliance and identify improvement areas

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement plan with employer contributions
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance program
  • Support for infertility, parental leave, and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Productions Division is seeking a Lubrication and Reliability Leader to join our team at the Muskogee Paper Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma. As the site lubrication subject matter expert, you will lead lubrication excellence across the mill by advancing best practices, building our hourly team's capability, and improving the health of critical mechanical assets. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who enjoys solving problems, developing people, challenging the status quo, and driving disciplined execution to create value.

What You Will Do
  • Lead and cultivate a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and Environmental, Health, and Safety excellence in all lubrication-related activities.
  • Serve as the mill's technical subject matter expert for lubrication strategies, contamination control, lubricant selection, oil analysis, filtration, and storage and handling practices.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of lubrication technicians by establishing clear expectations, prioritizing work, removing barriers, and promoting consistent execution of lubrication standards.
  • Develop and continuously improve mill-wide lubrication programs, preventive maintenance strategies, inspection processes, work instructions, and lubrication routes.
  • Manage the site's oil analysis program, including sampling strategy, interpretation of results, corrective action recommendations, and tracking measurable improvements.
  • Partner with maintenance, operations, engineering, stores, and suppliers to optimize lubricant usage, improve contamination control, standardize practices, and extend asset life.
  • Support reliability improvement efforts through Root Cause Analysis (RCA), failure elimination activities, and proactive identification of lubrication-related risks.
  • Train and mentor maintenance technicians, operators, and leaders on lubrication fundamentals, inspection practices, contamination control, and precision maintenance principles.
  • Audit lubrication processes, equipment, storage areas, and field execution to ensure compliance with established standards and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Utilize SAP or other CMMS tools to support maintenance planning, preventive maintenance optimization, documentation, KPI tracking, and corrective work identification.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience in industrial lubrication.
  • Experience troubleshooting rotating equipment and other lubricated mechanical systems.
  • Experience using equipment data and reliability metrics to support decision making (RCA, FMEA, prevision maintenance etc).
  • Supervisory experience with direct reports.


What Will Put You Ahead
  • ICML Machinery Lubrication Technician (MLT), Machinery Lubricant Analyst (MLA), or similar lubrication-related certification.
  • Experience with oil analysis, contamination control, lubricant consolidation, and filtration improvement initiatives.
  • Pulp & Paper experience
  • Experience collaborating across operations, maintenance, and engineering teams.
  • Experience using a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System).


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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