Field Mobilization Leader

Koch Engineered Solutions

The Role

Overview

Lead workforce planning and mobilization for field ops using data-driven strategies.

Key Responsibilities

  • workforce planning
  • crew utilization
  • analytics
  • reporting
  • dispatch optimization
  • mobilization plans

Tasks

-Lead, mentor, and coach your team through ongoing transformation, encouraging experimentation and learning to enhance workforce planning and mobilization effectiveness for field operations -Integrate specific milestones and measures (including items such as project kick-off, scope expansion, contingency planning, etc) -Drive strategy for non-core crew utilization -Champion the use of analytics to trial new approaches in resource optimization, cost efficiency, and crew utilization -Oversee the coordination of apprenticeship and IRA programs, ensuring they evolve alongside workforce strategies -Manage expectations proactively and report mobilization status, risks, and mitigation plans -Collaborate closely with Project Management and Operations teams to forecast workforce needs, and adjust resource allocation dynamically -Provide senior leadership with insightful reporting on staff metrics and workforce trends -Lead and mentor team members to apply Koch’s Principle Based Management philosophy -Drive continuous improvement in dispatching processes and technologies -Partner with leaders to develop and execute comprehensive mobilization plans aligned with KSPS’s strategic priorities to execute on projects and services

Requirements

  • workforce planning
  • leadership
  • data analytics
  • employee relations
  • apprenticeship
  • us authorization

What You Bring

-Experience in workforce planning, staffing, or recruiting with a track record of implementing new ideas and processes -Leadership experience in managing and inspiring teams through periods of change and innovation -Experience using data and analytics to identify gaps and drive process improvements -Experience handling employee relations -Familiarity with apprenticeship, IRA and/or qualification programs -Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship now or in the future -Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and fostering collaboration across divisions -Demonstrated success in mobilizing a high-volume industrial workforce

The Company

About Koch Engineered Solutions

-Born from a constellation of specialized companies, this network became a single-source powerhouse in industrial engineering. -Headquartered in Wichita, it integrates expertise in mass transfer, combustion, emissions control, separation and digital innovation. -Generates revenue through licensing advanced process technologies—like lithium extraction, polyester production—and turnkey EPC projects. -Typically tasked with designing and building custom equipment for refineries, chemical plants, municipalities and food processors. -In-house brands like Koch‑Glitsch and John Zink deliver standout technologies in tower internals and ultra‑low emissions burners. -Launched digital arm OnPoint to embed real-time analytics and combustion optimization into industrial operations. -Unusual for its scale: it handles everything from mass-transfer towers to utility-scale solar EPC and acoustic well imaging. -Partners on major carbon‑capture ventures, supplying separation equipment and onsite fabrication for large-scale plants.

Sector Specialisms

Refineries

Chemicals

Municipalities

Pulp & Paper

Pharmaceutical

Food & Dairy

Utilities

Automotive

Industrial Processes

Combustion

Mass Transfer

Project Services

Energy Generation

Environmental Stewardship

Utility-Scale Solar & Power Storage

Direct Lithium Extraction

Pollution Control

Process Technology Development and Licensing

Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC)

Asset Integrity Management

Natural Gas and Gas Processing

Emissions Control

Turnarounds and Plant Services

Sustainability Solutions

Digital Performance Optimization

Visa Sponsorship

-role is not eligible for visa sponsorship; must have permanent u.s. work authorization.

Security Clearance

-employment offers may be contingent on passing a drug test. -employer uses e-verify for employment eligibility.