Koch Industries

Operations Excellence Lead

Koch Industries$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in IT operations, infrastructure, and service management.
  • Proven work in manufacturing processes and operational technology environments.
  • Strong analytical skills for assessing and optimizing support processes using data-driven methods.
  • Ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.
  • Excellent facilitation and presentation skills tailored to diverse stakeholders.
  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

  • Lead initiatives to enhance reliability and reduce complexity across IT Infrastructure.
  • Advance service ownership and operational models with clear governance structures.
  • Collaborate with site leaders and IT teams to identify and address cost and reliability pain points.
  • Map and analyze value streams to improve process efficiency and standard work.
  • Streamline support processes and improve tools like ServiceNow for better service delivery.
  • Establish key performance indicators to measure transformation impacts and adjust strategies.
  • Facilitate leadership reviews and working sessions to foster team alignment and shared ownership.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Retirement savings plan with company contributions.
  • Paid vacation and time off, including parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Educational assistance for career development.
  • Wellbeing resources aimed at supporting physical, financial, and emotional health.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Operations Excellence Lead to help improve how large, multi-team initiatives move across the IT Infrastructure & Site Reliability value stream, from strategy through build, run, and governance. In this individual contributor leadership role, you will drive process and tooling transformation, strengthen service ownership practices, and help make our services more reliable, cost effective, and less complex.

This role is based in Atlanta, GA and hybrid which typically is 3 days in office per week

Our Team

The GP IT Infrastructure & Site Reliability organization is a large, diverse group of IT capabilities focused on improving IT operations and reliability at scale, from manufacturing sites to the cloud. This role reports directly to the Vice President, IT Infrastructure & Site Reliability so it can remain neutral to any single delivery team and serve the broader capability.

What You Will Do
  • Lead cross-functional operations excellence initiatives that improve reliability, reduce complexity, and create measurable business value across Infrastructure & Site Reliability
  • S hape and advance service ownership and operating model practices, including governance, roles and responsibilities, RACIs, and build-to-run handoffs
  • Partner with site leaders, customers, and IT capability groups to understand cost, reliability, and process pain points and translate them into practical improvements
  • Map end-to-end value streams, identify bottlenecks and recurring operational friction, and guide teams toward standard work, continuous improvement, and stronger flow
  • Improve and simplify support processes, tooling, and systems of work, including ServiceNow, observability, reliability, and service portfolio practices
  • Establish KPIs and reporting mechanisms to evaluate transformation impact, monitor progress, and adjust using data-driven methods such as Plan-Do-Check-Adjust
  • Facilitate working sessions, leadership reviews, and communities of practice that build alignment, shared ownership, and consistent adoption across teams.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience in IT operations, infrastructure, site reliability, service management, process transformation, or continuous improvement
  • Experience working with manufacturing processes and operational technology environments
  • Experience assessing support processes, identifying improvement opportunities, and using tools or data to drive measurable operational outcomes
  • Experience influencing, coordinating, or leading cross-functional work across teams without direct authority
  • Experience facilitating discussions, presenting information to leaders, and building alignment across diverse stakeholders
  • Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Experience leading operating model, service ownership, or build-to-run transformation efforts
  • Experience in IT service management and operating models, including ITIL, service ownership, ServiceNow, observability, monitoring, or cloud operations
  • Lean, Agile, DevOps, Kanban, flow metrics, Theory of Constraints, or Lean Six Sigma experience or certification
  • Experience applying automation or AI to improve operational excellence, reliability, standardization, or service outcomes
  • Experience partnering with architecture, operations, cyber security, service portfolio, or manufacturing site teams to align standards and roadmaps


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.

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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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