The Equipment Technology and Services (ET&S) business for Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is adding a Senior Director of Project Management for the John Zink combustion business in the Americas.
The Project Management organization is responsible for leading cross-functional project teams to deliver hundreds of projects ranging in value, including those of significant scale. This high visibility leadership role will lead the Project Management capability for our John Zink business and is ideal for a candidate who works in mutually beneficial ways to drive results and is comfortable challenging the status quo. This role will apply Koch's Principle Based Management (PBM) philosophy to develop a results-oriented team that achieves results through economic thinking, innovation, and collaboration.
This role will report to the General Manager for the combustion business in the Americas. The preference is for this role to be based at our facility in Tulsa, OK.
What You Will Do:
- Transform order execution performance through talent development, integrated project team collaboration, process improvement, and sound decision making.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization to identify and prioritize needs and deliver solutions that advance project delivery and business objectives.
- Lead the execution team to meet project commitments in an integrated manner and with accountability for the results.
- Proactively identify and profitably manage backlog risk and largest opportunities for timely, accurately signaled margin delivery.
- Advance a culture where contribution motivated employees become increasingly self-actualized by aligning each employees’ abilities and interests with value creating opportunities consistent with the business vision.
- Develop positive working relationships with all internal business stakeholders, teams, and leaders.
- Coordinate with international counterparts to harmonize workflow best practices.
- Solicit and provide feedback to engineering, manufacturing and commercial leaders to continuously drive performance improvement.
The Experience You Will Bring
Requirements (Basic Qualifications):
- Demonstrated ability to drive strategies that lead to profitable outcomes
- Experience successfully leading a complex and diverse team, working through complex problems to generate superior results
- Proven leadership capability inclusive of successful change management, mentoring, career development, training, talent forecasting, and accountability
- Demonstrated passion for ideation and innovation, managing complex situations, instilling collaboration and motivating others by creating a shared vision.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience working in a project management capability
- Experience working on engineering projects in the oil & gas and/or Chemicals/Petrochemicals industry
- Experience developing leaders in a Principle Based Management (PBM) environment
- Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts and understand complex technical and program interdependencies
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