Environmental Leader

Description

Koch EHS is a part of a shared-services capability company that provides Environmental Health & Safety services to affiliates of Koch. We are currently seeking a Corporate Environmental Leader to join our leveraged capability to collaborate with other Corporate Environmental Leaders to efficiently and effectively leverage advantaged resources across business needs. 

This position could be located in Texas, Kansas, Georgia or Minnesota, but will require approximately 20-25% travel. 

As the Corporate Environmental Leader in the Koch EHS Team, you will primarily be responsible for:

• Anticipating, identifying, and/or understanding business vulnerabilities and constraints in the Environmental space for various Koch Companies to help develop strategies consistent with Koch’s risk philosophy
• Developing Environmental Capability across Koch EHS and organizations we support by using the tacit knowledge and experience you bring
• Applying principles of entrepreneurship in managing your business and creating long term superior value across Koch
• Ability to help teams flow to work across various capabilities applying principles of entrepreneurship, comparative advantage, and risk optimization
• Challenging the status quo of how work has always been done. 

What You Will Do

• Mentor and build environmental capability across the Koch EHS team and organizations we support
• Lead complex strategic key risk projects/tasks using your tacit knowledge in environmental and strong curiosity to understand benchmarking trends (both internally and externally) 
• Align business teams on what good environmental performance looks like, identify and help to close any environmental capability/systems gaps that are barriers to value creation and contribute to Points of Views across the enterprise
• Advance innovation, optimization, and automation with passion, energy, and enthusiasm in the EHS space
• Supervise employees by motivating them to maximize their contributions to the organization and to Koch’s long-term success. 
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Ability to work at all levels of the organization and to succinctly outline complex technical concepts across various levels of the organization
• Strong economic and critical thinking skills
• Excellent collaborator and driver of effective teamwork across various teams and organizations
• Experience in a manufacturing/industrial facility

What Will Put You Ahead

• Leadership Experience in building high performance teams by building capability across the organization
• Supervisory experience with a manufacturing/industrial organization 
• Ability to develop Strategic POVs (options analysis/marginal analysis) to help create superior value across the organization
• Environmental background in a complex manufacturing/industrial facility and strong entrepreneurial skills
• Passion to be a Leader in the Koch EHS organization. 
  

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are
Koch Industries creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf