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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Maintenance Leader: Utilities and Outage

Mechanical Maintenance and Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBrunswick, GA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience leading maintenance or reliability improvement in a continuous-process manufacturing environment.
  • Experience planning and executing major outages, turnarounds, or complex maintenance events.
  • Experience applying preventive and predictive maintenance, root-cause analysis, equipment criticality, and reliability-improvement methods.
  • Experience using a computerized maintenance management system or enterprise asset-management system for maintenance planning, scheduling, prioritization, and performance reporting.
  • Experience managing maintenance or outage budgets, contractors, priorities, and scope changes while working across operations, maintenance, engineering, and procurement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead maintenance and reliability for recovery, power, recausticizing, and waste-treatment operations.
  • Lead mill-wide outage planning and execution, including scope, priorities, schedules, material and contractor readiness, startup, and post-outage review.
  • Build and execute maintenance and asset strategies that improve safety, equipment reliability, availability, operating stability, and lifecycle cost.
  • Strengthen planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment criticality strategies, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action closure.
  • Partner with operations and engineering to identify equipment risks and prioritize repairs, outage work, and long-term capital or replacement needs.
  • Manage maintenance and outage budgets, forecasts, contractors, scope changes, and performance measures while maintaining strong safety, environmental, and equipment-integrity standards.
  • Build capability and accountability across supervisors, planners, crafts, engineers, contractors, and operating partners through visible field leadership and disciplined execution.

Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or a related technical field.
  • Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification.
  • Experience in pulp and paper, chemical processing, power generation, or another asset-intensive continuous-process industry.
  • Experience with high-pressure boilers, recovery boilers, turbine-generators, power-distribution systems, recausticizing equipment, or waste-treatment systems.
  • Demonstrated success leading major outages with strong safety, schedule, cost, startup, and reliability outcomes.

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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