Koch Industries

Winder/Finishing area SME

Koch Industries • $130K — $180K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in paper-making equipment and processes including finishing end equipment and winders
  • Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, layout, and mechanical drawings
  • Demonstrated leadership and mentorship skills in manufacturing environments
  • Willingness to travel up to 75% of the time depending on project needs
  • Comfortable working in demanding conditions (elevated temperatures, humidity) and irregular hours
  • Strong technical problem-solving skills and experience with process optimization

Responsibilities

  • Act as a change agent by partnering with production teams to identify improvement opportunities
  • Coordinate asset performance optimization efforts with internal and third-party support
  • Lead installation and commissioning of new or updated assets
  • Assist asset owners in prioritizing improvement opportunities based on business needs
  • Collaborate with other SMEs to develop standardized operational strategies
  • Mentor engineering and operations personnel locally and within the corporate team
  • Plan outage activities to ensure operational targets are met

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance for personal and professional growth
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance options
  • Support for employee well-being and work-life balance
Full Job Description
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is recruiting a SME to join our Manufacturing Technical Group that is part of the corporate central capability group. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise to a variety of winders and finishing assets across Georgia Pacific's North America facilities and will have a strong capability to work with both hourly and salary employees.

What You Will Do
  • Act as Change Agents through partnerships with hourly and salaried personnel at production sites to identify improvement opportunities for processes, people and equipment
  • Coordinate and lead efforts to return asset performance to the optimized base case with third-party support and internal resources as needed
  • Support installation, commissioning, and optimization of new or upgraded assets
  • Assist asset owners in managing and prioritizing lists of improvement opportunities for their respective assets based on business need
  • Work with other Subject Matter Experts, capability teams, and operations personnel within Georgia Pacific to develop standardized operating and maintenance strategies for similar assets and equipment
  • Provide technical and professional mentoring support for hourly, salaried engineering and operations personnel both at local facilities and within the corporate engineering team
  • Assist in planning specific outage activities with operations teams to ensure that desired results are achieved
  • Apply Subject Matter Expertise knowledge to support short-term technical requests across multiple facilities
  • Support trials of new process technology and equipment and provide an assessment of applicability with an existing asset base


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Knowledge and experience in one or more specific paper-making equipment and process areas: Finishing end equipment, winders, reels and/or roll handling
  • Able to read and interpret piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID's), layout drawings, and mechanical drawings
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively lead, communicate with, and mentor others in a manufacturing environment
  • Willing and able to travel up to 75% of the time (project dependent)
  • Willing and able to work in operating environments that include platforms and catwalks, elevated temperatures, and variable humidity levels
  • Willing and able to work occasional weekends, nights, and holidays when needed


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Pulp, and Paper Science, or a Technical degree
  • Experience with paper machine applications
  • Experience in working with SAP or similar ERP systems
  • Experience in manufacturing leadership role(s) supporting paper-making operations
  • Experience using PI ProcessBook or comparable data historian
  • Previous experience using Root Cause Analysis strategies - KT, 5 Why, etc.
  • Previous work experience in a technical design or service capacity related to finishing equipment or paper making


For this role, we anticipate paying $130k - $180k per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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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