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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Reliability Manager

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

About the Job

Requirements

  • Previous experience in a leadership role in a manufacturing or industrial environment, or a military leadership role.
  • Experience utilizing a computerized maintenance management system.

Responsibilities

  • Apply reliability engineering and systems-thinking principles to develop and implement predictive and preventive maintenance strategies, evaluating manufacturing assets and processes as interconnected systems across the full value chain.
  • Perform engineering analysis of equipment performance and maintenance data, including reliability metrics, failure trends, and asset health indicators, to support data-driven decisions that improve machine availability and operational efficiency.
  • Lead technical problem solving for complex reliability and operational issues by applying structured methodologies such as root cause analysis, failure mode evaluation, and performance gap analysis to eliminate recurring failures and operational bottlenecks.
  • Ensure maintenance activities are executed safely and in accordance with engineering standards by leading hazard identification and mitigation prior to work execution.
  • Partner with operations and engineering stakeholders to evaluate system capacity, asset capability, and equipment constraints, ensuring manufacturing systems meet customer requirements and production demands.
  • Provide technical oversight of plant maintenance systems and equipment, including electrical, mechanical, and automated systems, ensuring work meets engineering specifications and reliability standards.
  • Apply asset-criticality and reliability engineering principles to prioritize maintenance work, optimize scheduling, and maximize equipment uptime and value creation.
  • Develop maintenance team capability by reinforcing precision maintenance practices, technical standards, and disciplined execution aligned with reliability engineering best practices.
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives by using engineering judgment to assess process performance, recommend technical solutions, and sustain long-term equipment reliability.

Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering focusing in electrical or mechanical.
  • Corrugated experience.
  • Continuous improvement experience and/or education.
  • Knowledge of equipment servicing, planning and scheduling, mechanical and electrical maintenance, and plant or project engineering.
  • Experience establishing and/or administering a predictive/preventive maintenance program and tracking results.
  • Knowledge of programmable logic controllers, drives, servos, motors, and instrumentation.

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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