Koch Industries

Senior Plant Manager

Koch Industries$120K — $145K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in manufacturing operations management.
  • Proven ability to scale operations in a rapid growth environment.
  • Experience collaborating with global teams across various cultures.
  • Strong background in developing and leading operational teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, operations management, business, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead daily operational activities for efficiency and quality.
  • Implement Lean or Six Sigma for workflow optimization.
  • Develop long-term operational strategies alongside executives.
  • Mentor and oversee multi-layered departmental teams.
  • Collaborate with finance, HR, sales, customer service, and R&D for organizational success.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Retirement plans with employer contributions.
  • Paid vacation and time off, including parental leave and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Molex is seeking an experienced and results-driven Senior Operations Manager to lead and optimize day-to-day business operations, drive operational excellence, and support the organization's continued growth. This role will oversee operational teams and processes, identify opportunities for improvement, establish performance standards, and ensure that business objectives are consistently achieved.

The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker and hands-on leader who can translate business goals into effective operational plans, build high-performing teams, and use data to improve efficiency, quality, and profitability.

Our Team

The Semi Test business is experiencing significant growth and expansion across multiple manufacturing locations. This team is focused on developing manufacturing capability, supporting production ramp-ups, strengthening operational performance, and enabling collaboration across global operations. The Senior Operations manager will be a key drive in continued growth and success at the Irving facility.

What You Will Do

Operations Leadership: Lead and oversee daily operational activities to ensure efficient, consistent, and high-quality execution.

Process Optimization: Implement Lean or Six Sigma methodologies to improve workflow efficiency, reduce waste, and scale throughput.

Strategic Leadership: Partner with executive leadership to develop long-term operational strategies, budgets, and performance-driven metrics (KPIs).

People Leadership: Supervise, mentor, and build accountability across multi-layered departmental teams.

Cross Functional Collaboration: Partner with Senior leadership and departments such as Finance, HR, Sales, Customer Service, R&D, and product management to achieve organizational goals.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience leading manufacturing operations within a complex production environment.
  • Experience scaling a facility in a rapid growth environment.
  • Experience working effectively with global teams across different cultures and geographic locations.
  • Experience developing, coaching, and leading operational, and technical teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Business, or a related field; or equivalent operations leadership experience.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience in Semiconductor Test manufacturing.
  • Experience in CNC machining, plastic molding, or automated assembly.
  • Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or Operational Excellence certification and application experience.
  • Experience leading engineering, manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or other technical organizations.
  • Experience supporting high-growth manufacturing environments and operational transformations.
  • Experience driving measured improvements in productivity, quality, yield, cost, and delivery performance.


Success in this Role

Success in this position will be measured by the ability to:
  • Improve operational efficiency and productivity.
  • Consistently achieve or exceed operational KPI's.
  • Develop strong, accountable, high performing teams.
  • Improve customer and stakeholder satisfaction.
  • Successfully implement strategic and process-improvement initiatives.


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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