Project Controls Leader - Scheduling

Koch Business Solutions, LP; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance

ADD

Disability

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is seeking a Project Controls Leader - Scheduling to spearhead and elevate scheduling for Turnaround, Capital and Expense Projects across KAES sites. Based in Wichita, KS, with relocation support as needed, this role focuses on building partnerships, transforming scheduling capability, and delivering measurable value.

The candidate will lead cross-functional teams, develop talent, drive data-driven improvements, and align with KAES’s vision for responsible,

Qualifications

• Experience building processes, tools, and teams across multiple locations and functions.
• Experience developing talent and aligning strengths to business priorities.
• Experience applying organizational change management to improve processes, applications, or tools.
• Experience translating organizational gaps into prioritized cross-functional initiatives that improve ROI and availability.
• Experience developing data, leading indicators, and stakeholder feedback to drive adoption and improve outcomes.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% with onsite presence during Turnarounds.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted partnerships with Operations, Turnaround, Project, Procurement, Engineering Records, and others to make scheduling a valued partner.
• Drive results by applying PBM principles and developing team members, fostering accountability and transformation.
• Build and sustain scheduling and analytical talent across the fleet through onboarding and talent development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and communicate a KAES Scheduling vision and roadmaps that drive action.
• Lead the transformation of KAES scheduling capabilities to improve competitiveness, reliability, and project/outage execution.
• Prioritize and collaborate on improvements to upstream/downstream processes, tools, and data flows to raise schedule quality and adoption.
• Develop metrics and leading indicators that drive profitable action.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Scheduling knowledge

Talent development

Data & metrics

Change management

Job description

Your Job

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is looking for a Project Controls Leader - Scheduling who will be the primary point of contact for leading and improving the scheduling capability for Turnaround, Capital and Expense Projects across KAES sites. The selected candidate will be a key member of cross site, cross functional teams that can create significant value within the organization by improving our capability to execute competitive Projects.

This position is based in Wichita, Kansas, with relocation support available as needed.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

What You Will Do

• Build trusted partnerships with Operations, Turnaround, Project, Procurement, Engineering Records, and other key stakeholders to create an environment where the scheduling capability is viewed as a valued partner.
• Drive results by modeling and applying PBM Principles-developing and empowering team members, fostering a culture of accountability and transformation, and ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations
• Build and sustain scheduling and analytical talent across the fleet through effective onboarding, talent development, succession planning, and application of each team member's comparative advantage.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and communicate a shared KAES Scheduling vision, strategies, and roadmaps that drive action on the highest-value opportunities across the fleet.
• Lead the transformation of KAES scheduling capabilities (people, processes, and tools) to improve competitiveness, reliability, and profitable project/outage execution.
• Prioritize, influence and collaborate across capabilities on improvements to upstream and downstream work processes, tools, and data flows leading to an increase in schedule quality, integrity, usability, and stakeholder adoption.
• Develop metrics and insights with a bias for leading indicators that drive profitable action/behavior changes

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience building a processes, tools, and teams that support work across multiple locations and functions.
• Experience developing talent, improving team effectiveness, and aligning individual strengths and passion to business priorities.
• Experience applying good organizational change management to improve business processes, applications, or tools that support project and turnaround delivery.
• Experience translating organizational gaps into prioritized cross-functional initiatives that help teams deliver competitive results, such as plant availability, cost competitiveness and ROI.
• Experience developing data, leading indicators, and stakeholder feedback to drive adoption and improve business outcomes.
• Experience collaborating with and influencing change across cross functional teams/processes
• Willingness to travel up to 25% with expectation to be onsite for an extended period during Turnarounds

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with turnaround and/or project scheduling, reporting and analytics processes and tools such as P6, PowerBI, MS Fabric, Copilot/Cowork, etc.
• Experience leading organizational change management for tools, processes, or capability transformation across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience using historical data, benchmarking, or lessons learned to improve future outcomes.
• 5+ years in Construction and/or Engineering field
• Familiarity with EcoSys, Autodesk Construction Cloud/Forma, Maximo, P6 or similar Project Controls tools.

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.

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

As a Koch company, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets. From agriculture to energy, KAES makes things grow better with plant nutrient and biological technologies. Our team of innovators unleash their potential while developing the technologies that feed and power the world.

Our Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.