What are the responsibilities and job description for the Piping Fabrication Coordinator position at Koch?
Your Job
Optimized Process Designs, an EPC firm and Koch Engineered Solutions company, is hiring a Pipe Fabrication Coordinator. This role plays a key part in supporting fabrication and coating operations by coordinating production workflows, tracking project progress, and ensuring clear communication across internal teams and external partners. This role is critical to keeping projects on schedule and enabling efficient execution across multiple active jobs.
This position supports production and sourcing activities while maintaining visibility to fabrication schedules, project updates, and open items that may impact delivery timelines.
This role is based in Katy, Texas and is not eligible for VISA sponsorship or transfer.
Our Team
You will be part of a cross-functional team supporting fabrication and construction projects across Optimized Process Designs’ U.S. operations. This team collaborates closely with engineering, procurement, and field execution groups to deliver high-quality solutions on schedule. You will play a key role in helping the team maintain alignment, visibility, and momentum across multiple active projects.
What You Will Do
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 Engineered Solutions company, Optimized Process Designs (OPD) provides clients with detailed engineering packages in all disciplines, single-point procurement for all equipment and materials, fabrication, and direct-hired construction services throughout the United States. We leverage in-house capabilities and provide services with faster speed to market to help deliver increased cost savings while minimizing risk.
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.
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. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Optimized Process Designs, an EPC firm and Koch Engineered Solutions company, is hiring a Pipe Fabrication Coordinator. This role plays a key part in supporting fabrication and coating operations by coordinating production workflows, tracking project progress, and ensuring clear communication across internal teams and external partners. This role is critical to keeping projects on schedule and enabling efficient execution across multiple active jobs.
This position supports production and sourcing activities while maintaining visibility to fabrication schedules, project updates, and open items that may impact delivery timelines.
This role is based in Katy, Texas and is not eligible for VISA sponsorship or transfer.
Our Team
You will be part of a cross-functional team supporting fabrication and construction projects across Optimized Process Designs’ U.S. operations. This team collaborates closely with engineering, procurement, and field execution groups to deliver high-quality solutions on schedule. You will play a key role in helping the team maintain alignment, visibility, and momentum across multiple active projects.
What You Will Do
- Support RFQ processes and vendor communication
- Track and manage RFIs, ensuring timely follow-up and escalation
- Coordinate with internal teams and external fabrication shops on schedules
- Maintain project documentation, including ISO transmittals and RFQ packages
- Monitor project status and identify potential risks or delays
- Support cost tracking, data entry, and fabrication analysis
- Assist with purchase order approvals
- Manage the production inbox and route requests appropriately
- High School Diploma or equivalent experience in oil & gas or industrial services
- Experience managing multiple priorities across projects
- Experience coordinating schedules and/or communications across internal teams and external vendors
- Experience tracking RFIs and escalating risks as needed
- Experience in documenting processes, ISO transmittals, or RFQ packages
- Experience working independently while aligning with team priorities
- Experience in coordination, production, or project support either in industrial or fabrication environments
- Experience supporting pipe fabrication, coating, or manufacturing environments
- Experience utilizing Microsoft Office Suite (specifically MS Excel) and PDF editing tools
- Experience working with ERP systems
- Experience managing RFQ processes, purchase orders, and cost tracking
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 Engineered Solutions company, Optimized Process Designs (OPD) provides clients with detailed engineering packages in all disciplines, single-point procurement for all equipment and materials, fabrication, and direct-hired construction services throughout the United States. We leverage in-house capabilities and provide services with faster speed to market to help deliver increased cost savings while minimizing risk.
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.
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. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).