What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior HR Business Partner position at Koch?
Your Role
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a dynamic Senior HR Business Partner who can create a competitive advantage for our business through a strategic focus on advancing talent and culture. We are looking for someone who possesses strong leadership skills, passion for transformation, business acumen, and can create and execute HR strategies to advance business priorities. Proactively seeking and sharing knowledge, serving as a trusted advisor, and providing strategic thought partnership and respectful challenge to leaders will be key to success.
Preference for this role to sit in Houston, TX. This role will spend time in the office and at our multiple project sites, expected travel up to 50%. Relocation assistance may be available and will be evaluated based on individual candidate circumstances and business needs.
Our Team
In this role, you will partner with Koch Specialty Plant Services (KSPS), a Koch Engineered Solutions company and trusted provider of turnarounds, construction, and technical services across heavy industrial sectors. Through an unwavering focus on safety, quality, and speed, KSPS helps customers improve reliability and operational performance.
As KSPS continues to grow, this role offers a unique opportunity to shape talent and culture strategies that strengthen organizational capability and help the business achieve its strategic priorities.
What You Will Do:
Who We Are
As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, Koch Specialty Plant Services (KSPS) provides code welding work related to repair, revamp, replacement and field fabrication of towers and vessels, piping and specialty welding, mass transfer equipment installation, inspection and professional project services.
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.
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.
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).
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a dynamic Senior HR Business Partner who can create a competitive advantage for our business through a strategic focus on advancing talent and culture. We are looking for someone who possesses strong leadership skills, passion for transformation, business acumen, and can create and execute HR strategies to advance business priorities. Proactively seeking and sharing knowledge, serving as a trusted advisor, and providing strategic thought partnership and respectful challenge to leaders will be key to success.
Preference for this role to sit in Houston, TX. This role will spend time in the office and at our multiple project sites, expected travel up to 50%. Relocation assistance may be available and will be evaluated based on individual candidate circumstances and business needs.
Our Team
In this role, you will partner with Koch Specialty Plant Services (KSPS), a Koch Engineered Solutions company and trusted provider of turnarounds, construction, and technical services across heavy industrial sectors. Through an unwavering focus on safety, quality, and speed, KSPS helps customers improve reliability and operational performance.
As KSPS continues to grow, this role offers a unique opportunity to shape talent and culture strategies that strengthen organizational capability and help the business achieve its strategic priorities.
What You Will Do:
- Act as a steward and champion of our Principle Based Management® (PBM) culture, helping leaders improve business results through effective application of PBM principles.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, developing effective working relationships, trust, and credibility with business and HR stakeholders to advance the business vision, strategic priorities, business results and organizational capability.
- Understand key drivers of business performance, how talent and culture contribute to those drivers, and partner with business leaders to deliver results.
- Coach and respectfully challenge leaders through organizational change, communication, talent development, and decision-making using Principle Based Management® (PBM).
- Identify talent and capability gaps, partnering with leaders to develop and execute plans to close gaps.
- Design and implement talent strategies that attract, develop, engage, and retain high-performing employees.
- Experience influencing and coaching leaders and supervisors
- Experience leveraging culture as an enabler to reach desired business results
- Experience using data and insights to inform business decisions and talent strategies.
- Experience implementing talent initiatives to accelerate achievement of business results
- Experience leading through organizational change with resilience, adaptability, and a solution-oriented mindset.
- Experience developing talent and building organizational capability through coaching, succession planning, and talent development.
- Experience partnering with turnaround, construction, or technical services professionals
- Experience managing employee relations and conducting HR-related investigations
- Experience in a services organization
Who We Are
As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, Koch Specialty Plant Services (KSPS) provides code welding work related to repair, revamp, replacement and field fabrication of towers and vessels, piping and specialty welding, mass transfer equipment installation, inspection and professional project services.
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.
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.
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).