Plant Controller - Orestes Facility

Responsibilities

• Business partner for site leadership
• Help leadership understand cost drivers and opportunities to improve profitability
• Manage and develop Accounting and Finance staff
• Performance Analysis
• Conduct monthly plant operation review meetings
• Review actual vs. budget for labor dollars, labor efficiencies, crewing variances, material usage, and overhead rates
• Assist departmental managers in developing corrective actions for material, labor, and overhead spending variances including monitoring and reporting of departmental and plant goals
• Coordinate Capital evaluation with Corporate Financial Analyst---Capital
• Manage the accuracy and completeness of the Cost files
• Manage the New Product Initiation process and develop costs for new products

• Manage the plant budgeting process
• Conduct departmental interviews to determine plant material, labor, and overhead budget requirements
• Prepare Annual Operating Plan and reforecast as needed

• Insure inventory procedures are followed to provide confidence that inventory is accurate
• Manage inventory transaction and inventory variance analyses

• Develop an overall understanding of the activity based costing model
• Determine plant reporting needs from activity based costing model

• 4 year degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5-8 years’ experience in Manufacturing Cost Accounting with 3 years supervisory experience
• MRP
• ERP
• Bar Coding

• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Leader

Indirect:
None

• Sitting- to complete a task at lower levels
• Standing- to complete most all tasks
• Walking
• Climbing- to get to parts department, when using ladder, on equipment
• Reaching- to perform activities, to get tools out of toolbox
• Kneeling- to perform work activities at low levels
• Crawling- to perform work activities under equipment
• Bending/stooping- to pick up tools or parts, to perform work tasks at lower levels or inside a machine
• Twisting- to perform work activities
• Pinch- to use tools, to manipulate wires
• Grasping/handling- using tools, manipulating parts
• Ability to work with hands and fingers continually without discomfort - telephone & computer

• Ethics/ Integrity/ Trust
• Attitude and Commitment
• Diversity
• Customer Service
• Company Engagement
• Quality

• Responsible for monitoring, record keeping and taking appropriate actions for specific Food Safety Plan and Food Quality Plan and pre-requisite program requirements.
• Responsible to report food safety and quality issues to management.