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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Utilities Supervisor

Machine & Process OperationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBrunswick, GA, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Leadership experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
  • Experience with maintenance strategies, including Asset Maintenance Work Process (AMWP), preventive maintenance, and reliability-centered maintenance.
  • Experience leading continuous improvement efforts.
  • Experience working with utility systems, including black liquor recovery boilers, black liquor evaporators, bark boilers, natural gas boilers, turbines, and feedwater systems.

Responsibilities

  • Foster a culture where employees proactively identify and address risks, hazards, and unsafe behaviors while encouraging suggestions for continuous improvement.
  • Ensure compliance with corporate policies and industry best practices in the operation and maintenance of recovery and power boilers, turbines, steam, and power distribution systems.
  • Motivate and develop salaried and hourly employees to enhance department performance and business management continuously.
  • Provide direct supervision and leadership to achieve excellence in safety and environmental compliance.
  • Develop and lead strategies to optimize the utilities department's capabilities, tracking performance against established goals.
  • Collaborate with area maintenance leadership to ensure strategic operating plans are executed efficiently and reliability issues are promptly addressed using root cause analysis tools.
  • Evaluate and eliminate quality and production bottlenecks, leading plans to enhance capability and competitive positioning.
  • Identify and remove waste and non-value-added costs to improve the mill's competitive position, effectively managing chemical inventories in communication with procurement.
  • Build and maintain effective working relationships across departments, leaders, and a union hourly workforce to meet and exceed key performance indicators in safety, reliability, and cost.
  • Lead and participate in continuous improvement efforts, applying reliability concepts and critical thinking skills to troubleshoot and solve complex operational issues.

Desired Qualifications

  • Background in the pulp and paper industry.
  • Experience managing and conducting audits.
  • Present or prior experience in a Utilities department that fosters Process-Based Management (PBM) and Asset Maintenance Work Process (AMWP) principles.

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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