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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Portfolio Executive

Construction ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time$240k - $260k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • EPC experience with a deep understanding of project lifecycle phases, including engineering design, procurement, construction execution, commissioning, and project closeout, with direct experience building complex projects.
  • Demonstrated P&L responsibility for large portfolios or business units exceeding $100 million.
  • Proven leadership of Project Management teams with a track record of developing and mentoring senior staff.
  • Strong acumen in business economics, contracts, and negotiations with customers and subcontractors, including experience leading both self-perform construction and subcontracted scopes.
  • Demonstrated technical construction acumen, including the ability to evaluate constructability, execution methods, sequencing, productivity, and cost and schedule risk.
  • Demonstrated strategic thinking skills with a proven ability to analyze and transform business processes to drive efficiency and innovation.
  • Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

Responsibilities

  • Hold full profit and loss responsibility for a multi-project portfolio, including budget, forecast, and financial outcomes.
  • Oversee multiple Project Managers and Senior Project Managers delivering complex photovoltaic and battery energy storage system projects through self-perform and subcontracted execution models.
  • Set portfolio construction execution strategy across self-perform and subcontracted scopes, aligning delivery methods with project requirements, internal capabilities, cost, schedule, quality, and risk.
  • Cultivate long-term customer partnerships, drive repeat business, and create mutually beneficial outcomes.
  • Lead enterprise-scale transformation initiatives that improve project delivery performance, cost competitiveness, and customer value through innovative processes, technologies, and delivery methods.
  • Lead and inspire transformative change in processes, paradigms, and technology adoption, setting new industry benchmarks in total installed cost.
  • Drive continuous talent growth by mentoring team members, fostering skill development, and enabling high-impact performance aligned with organizational goals.
  • Create an environment where empowered field teams make decisions, challenge assumptions, and drive economic thinking at every level.
  • Ensure rigorous adherence to project objectives, including environmental, safety, quality, schedule, financial, and compliance requirements.
  • Champion collaboration across engineering, procurement, construction, quality, environmental health and safety, and other support teams to deliver technically sound, project-centric solutions.
  • Provide technical and constructability leadership across the portfolio, challenging execution plans and ensuring teams apply sound construction methods, sequencing, productivity, and risk-management practices.
  • Proactively communicate internal and external capability gaps and drive strategic solutions.
  • Drive mutually beneficial outcomes for customers, partners, and internal teams.
  • Lead monthly and quarterly portfolio reviews with customers and partners.
  • Represent DEPCOM at industry events and within the broader renewable energy marketplace.

Desired Qualifications

  • 10+ years of EPC experience.
  • Utility-scale solar and/or battery energy storage system construction experience.
  • Experience building and scaling self-perform construction capabilities while effectively managing subcontracted partners.
  • Familiarity with industry benchmarking and best practices.
  • Experience leading transformative change through digitization, modularization, automation, or other innovative technologies that improve project delivery 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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