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Georgia-Pacific is seeking an IT Infrastructure Director to lead and continuously improve enterprise Compute, Connectivity, Audio-Visual, and Endpoint service offerings.

This senior leadership role is accountable for delivering reliable, cost-effective, and scalable infrastructure services through a team of people leaders, technical experts, and key internal and external partners. You will drive both strategy and execution—shaping service direction, strengthening operational discipline, and enabling measurable business outcomes.

What You Will Do

People Leadership

Lead, coach, and develop leaders and technical professionals, applying PBM principles to unlock capability and drive contribution
Build and evolve a team with the right mix of experience, perspective, and skills to deliver value
Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, and process-driven execution

Service Ownership & Accountability

Own end-to-end performance, reliability, cost, and evolution of infrastructure services
Define and execute service strategies and roadmaps aligned to technology, security, and business priorities
Manage financial performance, including cost transparency, forecasting, and optimization
Partner with internal service providers and vendors to deliver against operational and financial commitments
Drive process-driven ITSM operations (incident, problem, change, and configuration management) with KPI-based governance
Lead continuous improvement using data, service maturity targets, and stakeholder feedback
Serve as escalation point for major infrastructure incidents and lead efforts to reduce operational risk

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Leadership

Build strong partnerships with Koch Technologies, Cyber, Architecture, and manufacturing/site leadership
Align infrastructure capabilities with enterprise patterns, security standards, and business needs
Lead governance cadences including service reviews, roadmap planning, and business alignment

Technologies in Scope

Compute: Physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers; storage; backup and recovery
Connectivity: Network infrastructure, SD-WAN, OT networking, and cloud connectivity
Endpoints: Workstations, mobile/industrial devices, cameras, and scanners
Audio-Visual: Collaboration technology and conference room systems

A Day in the Life

Use service performance data to identify and drive measurable improvements
Partner with stakeholders to remove friction and improve reliability, cost, and user experience
Lead response and resolution for major infrastructure incidents
Coach leaders and develop team capability
Collaborate across IT and business functions to align priorities and deliver outcomes

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Experience in IT infrastructure, including experience leading and developing technical teams and/or leaders
Experience owning financial performance (budgeting, forecasting, cost optimization)
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership
Strong analytical skills, including KPI development and operational reporting
Demonstrated problem-solving skills with a people- and process-first mindset

What Will Put You Ahead

Experience in manufacturing or industrial environments, including OT/IT integration
Experience leading infrastructure modernization, lifecycle strategy, or large-scale migrations
Experience managing vendor-delivered or managed service operations
Experience leading multiple infrastructure domains or operating as a Service Owner
Experience developing leaders across distributed or cross-functional teams

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.

Who We Are

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).

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