Koch Industries

Workforce Manager

Koch Industries$100K — $120K *
Staffing
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of team leadership and coaching experience in dynamic environments
  • Demonstrated ability to build strong, results-oriented teams
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills for cross-functional work
  • Capability to manage multiple operational priorities and workflows
  • Strong problem-solving skills for operational and team challenges

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of workforce coordinators in forecasting and mobilization
  • Create a high-performing team culture focused on accountability and continuous improvement
  • Establish roles, expectations, and performance metrics for team development
  • Guide team improvements adopting new processes and tools
  • Align workforce plans with project needs through collaboration with leadership
  • Oversee workforce forecasting and utilization processes for agility
  • Utilize data and analytics to enhance decision-making and resource optimization
  • Evolve workforce development programs to build future capability

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts available
  • Life insurance, AD&D, and disability coverage provided
  • Retirement plan to secure financial future
  • Paid vacation and time off for work-life balance
  • Educational assistance for professional growth
  • Infertility assistance and paid parental/adoption leave options available
Full Job Description
Your Job

Koch Specialty Plant Services (KSPS), a Koch Engineered Solutions Company, is adding a Workforce Manager to our team. This role will report to the Director of Project Services and will be based at our facility in Houston, TX or Baton Rouge, LA.

This high-visibility leadership role will focus on evolving our workforce forecasting, utilization, and dispatch processes to meet the rapidly changing demands of our projects and business goals. This person must thrive in dynamic environments and excel in guiding teams through transformational change and innovative experimentation.

This role is not open to Visa sponsorship.

What You Will Do
  • Lead, develop, and coach a team of workforce coordinators, building capability in forecasting, mobilization, and execution excellence.
  • Create a high-performing, accountable team culture aligned with Principle Based Management, focused on ownership, continuous improvement, and results.
  • Establish clear roles, expectations, and performance metrics, and provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and development planning.
  • Guide the team through process and capability improvements, helping individuals adopt new tools and ways of working.
  • Partner closely with Project Management and Operations leaders to align workforce plans with project needs and priorities.
  • Oversee workforce forecasting, utilization, and mobilization processes, ensuring the team can respond quickly to changing demands.
  • Enable the team to leverage data and analytics to improve decision-making, resource optimization, and overall effectiveness.
  • Provide leadership with insight into team performance, workforce trends, and capacity gaps, while developing your team's ability to interpret and act on data.
  • Support and evolve workforce development programs, including apprenticeship and IRA initiatives, to build future capability.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Proven experience leading, developing, and coaching teams, particularly in dynamic or changing environments
  • Demonstrated ability to build strong, accountable teams and elevate individual and team performance
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
  • Ability to manage operational priorities, resources or workflows while maintaining responsibility for team leadership and employee support
  • Demonstrated ability to identify issues, evaluate options, and implment solutions to address operational, business, or team related challenges


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Experience in workforce planning, staffing, or resource coordination, with a track record of improving team effectiveness
  • Experience leading teams through process improvement or transformation initiatives
  • Familiarity with Principle Based Management
  • Background in industrial construction, turnarounds, or field operations
  • Experience working with apprenticeship, IRA, or workforce development programs
  • Exposure to employee relations and team performance management


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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