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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Associate Project Manager

Project ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChengdu, Sichuan, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university degree is required.
  • At least 5 years of work experience is required.
  • At least 2 years of project management work experience is required.
  • Very good English listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills are required.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word is required.
  • Communication and leadership skills are required to work with a cross-functional team.
  • Ability to coordinate across multiple sections is required.
  • Decision-making, conflict-resolution, and risk-management capabilities are required.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the customer focal point during product development, communicate the customer's voice to the organization, build customer confidence and positive customer relationships, respond promptly to information and deliverable requests, and manage the customer to ensure the project plan and customer expectations are met.
  • Lead cross-functional teams in deploying activities and delivering new product launches on time and within budget, ensuring requirements for quality, cost, delivery, product performance, and customer satisfaction are achieved.
  • Communicate barriers clearly and concisely to gain management action, facilitate win-win scenarios among team members, focus the team on executing the project plan, work effectively with team members and their functional managers, achieve cost, quality, and timing requirements, and ensure compliance with the company's new product development process and procedures.
  • Perform project management using methodologies such as action item lists, team meetings, change control, and timelines, and conduct professional, informative, and timely project phase reviews.
  • Perform risk management by identifying potential risks to project-plan execution, developing mitigation or contingency plans, and obtaining management support for proactive activities.
  • Meet project-plan financial goals for capital expenditure, cost-justification performance, and expense budgets, and document annual budgets for open project plans.
  • Work with suppliers, customers when needed, and purchasing to ensure timing, cost, and quality expectations are met in support of the project plan.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned by management.
  • Participate in training, report actively, and escalate issues promptly.

Desired Qualifications

  • An engineering background is preferred.
  • Experience in a multinational company is preferred.
  • Work experience related to new product development is preferred.
  • Excellent presentation skills are preferred.

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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