Koch Industries

Power and Utilities Area Operating Superintendent

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

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in pulp and paper operations or equivalent biomass/power generation experience
  • Operations experience in a heavy industrial environment
  • Proven experience delivering high levels of performance in heavy industrial settings
  • Ability to collaborate within and across teams for positive outcomes
  • Experience in applying leadership principles and continuous improvement methods
  • Familiarity with power generation equipment (boilers, turbines, recausticizing)

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Power & Recovery Operations Team using Principle Based Management (PBM®) for long-term value creation
  • Translate the mill's vision into clear priorities and expectations
  • Build a culture based on integrity, stewardship, and accountability
  • Create a stable and continuously improving operation through disciplined execution
  • Provide leadership to ensure departmental objectives in EHS, quality, and production are met
  • Develop and implement asset strategies supporting reliability and continuous improvement
  • Facilitate knowledge-sharing and skills development among team members

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plans and paid vacation/time off
  • Educational assistance and potential for paid parental leave
  • Support for overall wellbeing, including infertility assistance and adoption support
Full Job Description
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Toledo Containerboard Mill has an exciting opportunity for a Power and Utilities Area Operating Superintendent. The identified candidate will be responsible for leading the Power & Recovery Operations Team and applying Principle Based Management (PBM®) to create superior long-term value through safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations. This leader will develop a shared vision, build capability, encourage respectful challenge, and help the team use knowledge, economic thinking, and clear decision rights to improve performance. In addition, the candidate will provide leadership and direction to their team-facilitating technical knowledge, skill development, and ensuring the department is meeting objectives in EH&S, quality, reliability, production, and costs.

The Power and Utilities Area Operating Superintendent reports to the Power and Recovery Area Leader, leading a team of 6 salaried employees, another 50+ indirect employees, and is responsible for supporting the Mill's Vision and creating long-term value measured by improved equipment reliability using Operations Excellence. Long-term value is created through the application of Georgia-Pacific's Guiding Principles, and the PBM Five Dimensions: Vision, Virtue and Talents, Knowledge, Comparative Advantage, and Motivation.

What You Will Do
• Lead through the proactive and deliberate application of Principle Based Management (PBM®) to capture and realize long-term value via Operations Excellence
• Translate the Mill and department vision into clear priorities, measures, and expectations that help the team focus on the highest-value work
• Build a culture grounded in Our Values by modeling integrity, stewardship and compliance, humility, respect, and accountability in daily decisions
• Create an operation that is capable, stable, predictable, and continuously improving through disciplined execution and bottom-up challenge
• Provide leadership and direction to direct reports to ensure the Mill is meeting its objectives in EHS, quality, reliability, production, and costs
• Lead the development and implementation of asset strategies that drive continuous improvement and support all elements of reliability
• Use knowledge sharing, economic thinking, and good measures to identify gaps, evaluate tradeoffs, and make decisions that create real long-term value
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, expectations, and decision rights so team members can contribute according to their comparative advantages
• Facilitate knowledge and skills development of all team members, which include Asset Manager, Assistant Asset Managers, Supervisors, Planners and Hourly (union) Technicians
• Lead and mentor the team in planning and executing annual and routine outages, with accountability for long-term planning, risk reduction, and completion of annual work.
• Coach and develop contribution-motivated employees by helping them self-actualize, build capability, and increase their contribution to the business
• Work as a team member with operations to cost effectively plan, schedule, and execute work that creates real long-term value

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
• 5+ years of experience in pulp and paper operations or equivalent biomass/power generation experience
• Operations experience in a heavy industrial environment
• Proven experience delivering high levels of performance in a heavy industrial environment
• Proven ability to collaborate within and across teams to deliver positive results
• Experience applying leadership principles, coaching, or continuous improvement methods to build team capability and improve results
• Experience using data, measures, and economic thinking to identify gaps, prioritize work, and make value-creating decisions
• Experience with power generation equipment (boilers, turbines, recausticizing etc.)

What Will Put You Ahead
• Experience leading salary and hourly direct reports
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering
• Experience applying PBM, supervisor responsibilities and expectations, or similar principled leadership frameworks to develop people and improve business results
• Experience building clear roles, responsibilities, expectations, and decision rights within a manufacturing or operations team
• Experience with the kraft chemical recovery process and associated equipment
• Experience with asset reliability techniques to improve equipment reliability
• Experience with repairing/troubleshooting fixed equipment, rotating equipment, pressure vessels and steam distribution systems
• Experience with landfill operations or wastewater treatment processes

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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