Koch Industries

Project Manager

Koch Industries$120K — $140K *
Lisle, IL 60532In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial engineering background or equivalent
  • MS Project, MS Planner, JIRA certification, PMP certification, AI Utilization in Project Management role
  • 8+ years overall experience, with 3+ years in a Project Management role
  • Hands-on project management experience, especially in Electrical component development projects
  • Strong communication skills for effective interaction with team members and stakeholders
  • Demonstrated leadership ability for team building and alignment
  • Proficient in scheduling and planning with ability to monitor progress and prioritize tasks
  • Experience in risk management, including assessment and timely escalation of project issues

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute project plans and schedules for product and manufacturing processes
  • Manage and allocate project resources, collaborating with function leaders
  • Create tooling strategies to support long-term success and continuous improvement
  • Lead team communication to clarify project goals and stakeholder responsibilities
  • Drive progress through collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring alignment with project milestones
  • Identify and manage project risks, escalating issues to executives as needed
  • Coordinate project priorities, delivery dates, and production logistics with cross-functional teams

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and AD&D coverage
  • Disability and retirement plans
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Benefits related to family planning, such as infertility assistance and paid parental leave
Full Job Description
Your Job

The Project Manager will lead the project team in executing various internal transformation projects, including new product introduction & product transfers to achieve cost and time target and remove any barriers in realizing business objectives. This person should have strong communication skills and abundant practical experience, the ability to make sound judgments, and strong leadership skills to unite the will of all parties involved in the same direction.

What You Will Do

Project Planning and Scheduling:
  • Responsible for planning and scheduling of product and manufacturing processes development project. With timely monitoring the task progress and following up corresponding stakeholders from equipment manufacturing to sample delivery and mass production ramping-up phases, this role ensures corresponding deliverables to be delivered on-time with quality by understanding the project goals and requirements.


Resource Management:
  • Manages and allocates the project's resources (people, materials, systems and budget) by working together with corresponding function leaders.
  • Creates tooling strategy which supports long-term success and continuous improvement in tool delivery performance.
  • This role helps product management group get proper budget for the project.


Project team coordination:
  • This role leads communication with stakeholders to clarify or adjust task priority, deliverables and the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder to achieve the project goals.


Project progress support and risk management:
  • This role leads the progress of the project in cooperation with stakeholders in the project.
  • This role identifies and manages project risks and escalates issues to executives as quickly as possible to find solutions.
  • This role discusses project priorities, coordination of delivery dates, prototype and mass production locations with the Product Management & Strategy, Sales and Plants. Through strategic communication with other departments, this role contributes to the development of short-term, mid-term and long-term growth strategies, including technology roadmaps and human resource development for the Manufacturing Engineering Division.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial engineering background or equivalent
  • MS Project, MS Planner, JIRA certification, PMP certification, AI Utilization in PJM role
  • 8+ years in overall Experience and 3+ years' experience in Project management role
  • Project Management Experience: Hands on experience of project management. Experience of multiple project management and overcoming project challenges (Electrical component development projects)
  • Communication Skill: Effective communication with team members and stakeholders. Clear and timely communication for smooth decision making.
  • Leadership skills: Team building and leadership skill to align team for the goal.
  • Scheduling & Planning skills: Setting timeline according to project tasks, monitoring the progress and re-arranging the priorities with stakeholders.
  • Risk management: Risk assessment, timely escalation, with leading team discussion to create solutions.


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Understanding of management systems (EMS/OHSMS, ISMS)
  • Experience in connector/cable assembly or FPC products
  • Good understanding of Engineering drawings
  • Good understanding of connector and/or wiring harness design, manufacturing processes (stamping, mold, assembly, testing), and materials (terminals, connectors, wires).
  • Familiarity with connector/harness tooling & fixture, assembly boards, and validation requirements .


For this role, we anticipate paying $120,000 - $140,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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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