Koch Industries

Quality Manager

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

Qualifications

  • Two years of experience in continuous industrial manufacturing processes
  • Proficiency in data analytics, statistics, SQL, and databases
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Familiarity with Quality Management Systems (QMS)
  • Experience leading product trials

Responsibilities

  • Analyze process performance and develop metrics for safety and quality improvements
  • Supervise production efforts to enhance EHS compliance and cost efficiency
  • Utilize data analytics for structured problem-solving
  • Collaborate with operations and engineering teams to optimize production strategies
  • Identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement with site personnel
  • Oversee product quality records and compliance with QMS standards
  • Act as a liaison with third-party auditors and enforce quality procedures

Benefits

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

We are currently hiring a Quality Manager for our Gurdon, AR plywood site.

The Quality Manager will be responsible for creating and implementing strategies to optimize on-going operations while working injury-free/incident-free in a batch manufacturing environment consistent with our Principle Based Management (PBM) philosophy and framework. The successful candidate will be an integral part of the technical and operations teams that are challenged to manufacture high quality products while eliminating waste. We seek creative and innovative individuals that can conceptualize and profitably engage quality measurements to further improve our products for our customers.

What You Will Do

  • Support value creation efforts by analyzing process performance and developing key metrics to promote process improvement in safety, environmental, production, quality, value, and yield performance and digital transformation
  • Supervise and coordinate production efforts that result in sustained improvement in all associated work processes including Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Compliance, Reliability, Quality, Production, and Costs
  • Use Data Analytics and a structured approach to problem solving
  • Develop and apply strategies to optimize on-going production in conjunction with the operations, maintenance, and engineering teams throughout the organization
  • Identify gaps and collaborate with key site and divisional personnel to value and prioritize identified opportunities and outline execution strategies accordingly
  • Oversight of records as they pertain to product quality including: COA's, Calibration Records, Production Records, Process Validations, Department Checks, and others as defined by the QMS Manual and Records and Information Compliance Standards
  • Manage product quality, value and yield to contribute to the overall success of the facility
  • Serve as a liaison between Georgia-Pacific and the 3rd party auditors
  • Enforcement of standard operating procedures and coaching of production personnel pertaining to QMS program responsibilities, including quality checks and data collection and oversight of non-compliant products
  • Work with plant leadership and production personnel in the recognition and correction of noncompliant conditions in all production departments to ensure delivery of prompt and appropriate root cause analysis and corrective actions and act as a gatekeeper for customer claim response


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Two (2) years of experience working in a continuous industrial manufacturing process
  • Experience with data analytics and statistics, SQL, Databases
  • Experience working in a manufacturing environment
  • Experience working with Quality Management Systems (QMS)
  • Experience leading product Trials


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Five (5) years of experience as a Process or Quality Engineer, or related discipline
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline
  • Lean Six Sigma Training
  • Experience in a wood products environment
  • Supervisory experience


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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