Koch Industries

Manufacturing Advancement Leader

Koch Industries$100K — $120K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in manufacturing operations or maintenance and reliability as a people leader.
  • Experience with transformation using analytics and management systems.
  • Proficient in constraint analysis and continuous improvement methodologies.
  • Willingness to travel 75% of the time to production facilities and meetings.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Coach mill teams on gap closure strategies for processes like Daily Management Systems.
  • Foster a culture of ownership and development using the Principled Based Management philosophy.
  • Develop fellow leaders within the organization.
  • Drive innovation and process improvements through effective change management.
  • Analyze performance data to uncover significant operational opportunities.
  • Facilitate problem-solving and employee commitment towards results.
  • Engage in critical thinking and collaboration to enhance efficiency and safety.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and disability coverage.
  • Retirement plan with contributions.
  • Paid vacation and time off, including parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Educational assistance for professional development.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific has an immediate opening for a Manufacturing Advancement Leader to coordinate collaborative, cross-functional teams in the execution of strategies for bet capture initiatives across all Dixie production operations, ensuring alignment with disciplined operations, digital transformation, and best practice adoption. The Manufacturing Advancement Leader will utilize leadership, influence, manufacturing experience and communication capabilities to develop and implement rapid transformational improvements for priority initiatives.

Due to supporting our Dixie operations, this individual will need to reside in the Midwest or Southeastern United States (preferably in GA, AR, KY, TN, SC), but will be required to travel regularly (~50-75%).

What You Will Do
  • Serve as an augmented capability to effectively coach and drive mill teams towards achieving gap closure strategies for key process areas, to include Daily Management Systems and Reliability Best Practices.
  • Apply our management philosophy, Principled Based Management, to foster a culture where employees are empowered with a high sense of ownership and development
  • Coach and develop other people leaders within the Dixie organization
  • Embrace and manage change to drive innovation and process improvements
  • Utilize performance data and analytical skills to identify and realize greatest opportunities
  • Facilitate team and employee development, problem-solving and resolution, building employee commitment and ownership, and holding mutual accountability for results
  • Use critical & economic thinking, challenge process, and team collaboration to resolve issues and drive innovation, efficiency, and safety excellence


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience as a people leader in manufacturing operations and/or maintenance and reliability
  • Transformation experience utilizing analytics, management systems, change management methods, and advanced technology to improve operations
  • Experience utilizing constraint analysis and continuous improvement to prioritize work and solve complex issues
  • Able and willing to travel 75% of the time to production facilities and occasional team meetings


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering
  • Experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  • Experience leading within a converting manufacturing operation


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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