Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Project Manager

Project ManagementUpdated on Nov 11

Full-timeZhuhai, Guangdong Province, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills in English and Mandarin.
Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and SAP.
Understanding of detailed operations activities and ability to handle a small-scale operations cell.
Knowledge of formulating costing for both new product introduction and mass production.
Ability to champion profit and return on investment on behalf of global product managers, engage the plant, and lead cost-reduction efforts, capacity planning, and quality improvement to exceed business plan goals.
Knowledge of PBM and ability to apply PBM through the entire business cycle and daily activities.

Responsibilities

Execute OSBU connectivity projects, allocate resources, and drive continuous-improvement actions within the plant while linking business-unit strategy to ensure product and marketing efforts support the business unit's mission, strategy, and goals.
Handle customer plant visits and present or promote plant capabilities; coordinate with the global product manager and its leader to present product roadmaps and capabilities when relevant to the visit.
Lead and coordinate plant operations teams and the business unit to optimize cost and lead time and increase the business pipeline.
Address escalations from global product management or global sales management and coordinate with corresponding plant teams to provide timely support and meet customer expectations for quality, delivery, and lead-time issues.
Coordinate sales and operations planning for new-product planning strategy and capacity-loading reviews to stage materials and capacity at the factory based on new-project launch status.
Coordinate with the planning team to review capacity loading for existing products; work with global product management on capital investments and drive capacity expansion to meet customer expectations.
Support operations in reviewing excess material and preparing disposition proposals to minimize scrap and order-cancellation charges.
Work with plant Finance to review new-investment PAR before new-project launch and compare DMF cost of goods sold and profit against actual results when a new project is handed over to operations.
Drive cross-functional project teams to identify risks, challenges, escalations, solutions, and action plans to resolve barriers during project execution and product-development activities.
Identify new-product-introduction process gaps in the business unit and plant, streamline and optimize processes, and support safe product launches within Molex.
Support global product management in managing product Phase 8 through end-of-life activities in the plant.
Perform other related duties as assigned by management.

Your Job

Act as project management for the OSBU connectivity business

What You Will Do

1.	ExecuteOSBUconnectivityProjects,Resource allocation & work continuous improvement action inside plant, linkage business unit strategy framework to ensure that the product and marketing efforts are tailored to support business unitoverall mission, strategy, and goals
3.	Handle the customer plant visiting and present/promote plant capability and coordinate with GPM/GPM leader to present the product roadmap and capability if customer visit purpose with including this
4.	Lead/coordinate Plant Operation Teams and BU to offer solution to optimize cost and L/T to increase business pipeline Address the escalation from GPM/GSM & coordinate with plant corresponding team with quick support and respond to fulfil customer expectation, such as quality or delivery, L/T issue
5.	Coordinate S&OP for new product planning strategy& capacity loading review to stage the material and capacity at factory base on new project launch status Coordinate with planning team to review existing products capacity loading and work with GPM for capital investments and drive the capacity expansion to meet customer expectation
6.	Support operation to review excess material and work on disposition proposal to minimize the scrap and order cancellation for charge
8.	Co-work with plant Finance to review the new investment PAR before new project launch. Compare DMF COGS/Profit Vs Actual when new project handover to operation
9.	Act as Project role for project to drive X-functional team to Identify risk, challenges, escalation, solutions & action plan to solve barriers during the project execution & product development activity. Identify NPI process gap in BU and plant, seek for streamline/optimize the process and product safety launch inside Molex
10.	Support GPM to manage product Phase 8 ~ EOL activities in Plant
11.	Perform other related duties as assigned by management

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills in English and Mandarin.
Power Point, MS Word, Excel, CRM and SAP.
Understand the detailed operations activities and able to handle the small scale of operations cell.
Knowledge of how to formulate the costing in both NPI and mass productions.
Ability of champion profit and return on investment in behalf of global product managers to engage the plant and lead the cost reduction efforts, capacity planning and quality improvement to exceed business plan goals.

Knowledge of PBM and apply PBM through the entire business cycle and daily activities.

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About the Company

Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding: $985.2M
Headquarters: Wichita, KS
Founded: 1940

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