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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Planning Superintendent

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
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Toledo, OR, USA
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About the job

Requirements
  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Seven or more years of industrial maintenance experience.
  • Three or more years of experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, supervision, reliability, maintenance leadership, or technical services.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling principles.
  • Experience utilizing computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) or enterprise asset management (EAM) systems.
  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive organizational change.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the mill's maintenance planning and scheduling process.
  • Develop and coach planners to improve planning effectiveness and execution quality.
  • Establish and maintain planner standard work, expectations, and performance measures.
  • Drive consistency in planning practices across all operating areas.
  • Ensure weekly schedules are realistic, executable, and aligned with business priorities.
  • Support maintenance supervisors and operations leaders in improving schedule adherence.
  • Serve as a key leader in Asset Maintenance Work Process (AMWP) governance and process improvement.
  • Improve work screening, prioritization, planning, readiness, scheduling, execution feedback, and closeout quality.
  • Ensure planning resources focus on high-value work that improves reliability and reduces losses.
  • Drive backlog health and ensure work is appropriately scoped, prioritized, and planned.
  • Facilitate continuous improvement of maintenance work processes.
  • Improve the quality and consistency of work packages.
  • Ensure plans include labor estimates, materials, tooling, safety requirements, craft requirements, permits, procedures, and technical documentation.
  • Expand use of reusable job plans and planning libraries.
  • Drive field feedback into future job plan improvements.
  • Improve outage work packages and shutdown readiness.
  • Partner with Stores and Purchasing to improve readiness of planned work.
  • Improve bill of materials (BOM) accuracy, material linkage, and critical spare identification.
  • Support CatID development and inventory governance efforts.
  • Participate in SLOB reviews and disposition decisions for obsolete or excess inventory.
  • Drive improvements in material availability for planned work.
  • Partner with Reliability Engineers to improve asset performance.
  • Support development and improvement of preventive maintenance strategies.
  • Utilize failure history and planning feedback to eliminate recurring losses.
  • Participate in root cause failure analysis (RCFA) and reliability improvement initiatives.
  • Ensure planning resources support precision maintenance and best practices.
  • Lead planning readiness for outages and major shutdowns.
  • Ensure outage scopes are planned, scheduled, resourced, and material-ready.
  • Coordinate planning resources to support outage execution.
  • Drive post-outage reviews and incorporate lessons learned.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience leading maintenance planning organizations.
  • Experience with GP Asset Suite, SAP PM, Maximo, Infor EAM, or similar systems.
  • Experience in pulp and paper manufacturing.
  • Knowledge of Asset Maintenance Work Process (AMWP).
  • Experience leading outage planning and execution.
  • Demonstrated success improving planner productivity and schedule compliance.
  • Experience with material management, BOM governance, inventory optimization, and storeroom operations.
  • Experience developing key performance indicators (KPIs), dashboards, and work management performance metrics.

About the company

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, Kansas

Founded

1940

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What believers are saying

  • Koch raised $224.4 million in equity financing on March 10, 2026, preserving dry powder.
  • Koch's Africa fertilizer foothold expands global phosphate reach from Morocco's Jorf complex.
  • Closed Tacoma gypsum plant concentrates capital into stronger Georgia-Pacific assets and higher-margin lines.

What critics are saying

  • DOJ opened a fertilizer antitrust probe in March 2026, risking criminal charges and damages.
  • Farmers filed class actions in March and June 2026 against Koch Agronomic Services.
  • Georgia-Pacific will close Tacoma's gypsum plant on October 30, 2026, cutting 125 jobs.

What makes Koch Industries unique

  • Private since 1940, Koch reinvests earnings for decades, not quarterly Wall Street optics.
  • Koch Fertilizer expanded into Morocco on June 30, 2026 through Jorf Fertilizers ownership.
  • Georgia-Pacific and Koch Agronomic Services give Koch integrated positions across packaging and fertilizers.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • Paid Vacation
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Fertility Treatment Support
  • Parental Leave
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-59%

1 year growth

-60%

2 year growth

-60%
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