Vice President of Human Resources

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is looking to add a Vice President of Human Resources for the John Zink business within our Equipment Technology and Services (ET&S) segment. This position will be located in Tulsa, OK. Relocation will be supported.

Your Job

Are you a strategic leader passionate about building strong organizations and shaping culture? In this role, you will sit on the business leadership team as a full strategic partner—helping set direction, influencing decisions, and co-owning outcomes. You’ll bring workforce and organization insight, translating business priorities into global talent and culture strategies that drive measurable performance.

What You Will Do

• Partner with senior leaders to solve business challenges through practical people and organization strategies (e.g., organization design, leadership capability, workforce planning).
• Build trusted relationships across functions and regions, aligning stakeholders and removing barriers to progress.
• Bring an external perspective - challenge assumptions, encourage innovation, and improve decision quality using sound economic thinking.
• Analyze industry, talent market, and competitor insights to inform action and benchmark organizational strengths and opportunities.
• Link workforce decisions to key business drivers, productivity, and financial performance.
• Hire, develop, and retain talent - ensuring the right people are in the right roles at the right time, grounded in strong values and individual strengths.
• Coach leaders to raise performance, engagement, and development with both care and candor.
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, and decision rights to enable inclusive, high-performing teams.
• Use data and risk awareness to make informed tradeoffs, act quickly, and adapt as needed.
• Model and drive accountability—holding yourself and others to commitments and behaviors aligned with our core values.
  
  
  

The Experience You Will Bring

Requirements (Basic Qualifications):

• Demonstrated leadership experience (HR or non-HR) partnering with senior leaders and leading complex, cross-functional organizations or teams in a global environment.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into workforce, talent, and organization plans with measurable impact.
• Strong relationship-building, coaching, and influence skills across diverse stakeholders and cultures.
• Fluency in data-informed decision making; comfortable using metrics to diagnose issues and evaluate tradeoffs.
• Experience shaping and executing people and organization outcomes (e.g., org design, workforce planning, leadership development, performance/engagement, or change leadership), in partnership with HR and business stakeholders.
• Ability to operate globally across time zones; willingness to travel as needed.
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience leading complex, global teams or organizations (HR, operations, strategy, finance, commercial, or similar) with significant people-and-organization scope.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver talent and organization outcomes (e.g., hiring, assessment, performance systems, leader development, engagement, and retention), either through HR expertise or by leading teams that provide these capabilities.
• Strong financial and business acumen; comfortable partnering with Finance to evaluate workforce investments, productivity, and value-driver tradeoffs.
• Familiarity with principle-based leadership concepts (such as vision, values, leveraging individual strengths, and motivation) in leader routines and talent systems.
• Proven change leadership through transformations (growth/scale, restructuring, M&A integration, operating model shifts).
  
  
  

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. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf