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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Facility Safety Manager

Environmental Health & SafetyConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeGurdon, AR, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Safety leadership experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.

Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership and direction in establishing and achieving a meaningful safety vision and effective strategies through management commitment and employee ownership.
  • Lead the development and use of risk assessment methods and systems for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards, and drive and assist with mitigating identified gaps, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities.
  • Actively manage all aspects of compliance, including Occupational Safety and Health Administration and company standards, and ensure ownership resides with the appropriate roles within the organization.
  • Ensure the facility risk profile is addressed through development and implementation of key controls.
  • Recommend and facilitate engineering and design changes to eliminate or reduce risk, including machine guarding, ergonomics, traffic, fire and explosion, noise, and upset conditions.
  • Drive flawless execution, assessment, and improvement of critical safe work practices.
  • Support all phases of capital and major expense projects to ensure safe execution, including design review, contractor selection, orientation and auditing, work plans and permits, and pre-startup review.
  • Identify safety development and training needs.
  • Drive continuous improvement through tools and activities including self-assessments and audit processes, incident and near-miss investigations, metrics and targets, and periodic reviews of performance, culture, and talent.

Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in safety, Industrial Hygiene, or Engineering.
  • Certified Safety Professional certification.
  • Experience leading culture change and developing and implementing management systems.

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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