Koch Industries

UREA / UAN Technology Director

Koch Industries$125K — $150K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in Urea/UAN manufacturing or related operations
  • Willingness to travel regularly domestically for business needs

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a subject matter expert for urea/UAN technology within KAES.
  • Collaborate with plant teams to enhance operations and troubleshoot major technical challenges.
  • Initiate and support technology projects aiming at improving long-term performance of urea/UAN plants.
  • Identify and promote growth projects in collaboration with various KAES business groups.
  • Partner with engineering contractors to create and assess viable technical solutions.
  • Build relationships with industry experts to leverage knowledge and uncover new opportunities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance, AD&D, and short/long-term disability
  • Retirement plans and paid vacation/time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Support for infertility, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance
  • Tailored work environments to support individual needs.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is seeking a Urea/UAN Technology Director to advance urea technology and operational performance across our manufacturing network. In this highly collaborative role, you will apply technical knowledge to solve complex plant challenges, contribute and/or initiate strategic projects, and identify opportunities that create long-term value.

This position will ideally be located and/or relocate to our Wichita, KS office location or one of our operation facilities across the fleet.

What You Will Do

  • Serve as a subject matter expert for urea / UAN technology across KAES.
  • Partner with plant teams to optimize operations and resolve significant technical and operational challenges.
  • Initiate, contribute and support technology projects across urea / UAN plants that improve long-term operational performance and create sustainable value.
  • Identify and advance growth projects with teams across KAES business groups.
  • Partner with engineering contractors to develop, evaluate, and validate technical solutions and alternatives.
  • Build relationships with external companies and industry experts to acquire knowledge and identify new opportunities.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience with UREA/UAN manufacturing, operations, technology, or processes.
  • Willing and able to regularly travel domestically to meet business needs.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience with process optimization, process engineering, process technology or production support.
  • Demonstrated examples of implemented substantial improvements either directly in plant processes or via capital projects
  • Experience supporting capital projects, turnarounds, or plant startups.


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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