Quality Manager
About the job
- Two years of experience working in a continuous industrial manufacturing process.
- Experience with data analytics, statistics, SQL, and databases.
- Experience working in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience working with Quality Management Systems (QMS).
- Experience leading product trials.
- Support value creation by analyzing process performance and developing key metrics to improve safety, environmental, production, quality, value, yield, and digital transformation performance.
- Supervise and coordinate production efforts to sustain improvements in Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance, reliability, quality, production, and costs.
- Use data analytics and a structured approach to problem solving.
- Develop and apply strategies to optimize ongoing production in conjunction with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams throughout the organization.
- Identify gaps, collaborate with site and divisional personnel to assess and prioritize opportunities, and outline execution strategies.
- Oversee product quality records, including certificates of analysis, calibration records, production records, process validations, department checks, and other records defined by the QMS Manual and Records and Information Compliance Standards.
- Manage product quality, value, and yield to contribute to facility success.
- Serve as a liaison between Georgia-Pacific and third-party auditors.
- Enforce standard operating procedures and coach production personnel on QMS program responsibilities, including quality checks, data collection, and oversight of noncompliant products.
- Work with plant leadership and production personnel to recognize and correct noncompliant conditions in all production departments, ensure prompt and appropriate root cause analysis and corrective actions, and serve as gatekeeper for customer claim responses.
- Five years of experience as a Process or Quality Engineer, or in a related discipline.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
- Lean Six Sigma training.
- Experience in a wood products environment.
- Supervisory experience.
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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Simplify's Take
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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