Divisional Plant Controller; Plant Build

Divisional Plant Controller (New Plant Build-Out)

An established, PE‑backed manufacturer is building a brand‑new flagship plant and distribution hub in the Atlanta metro, and hiring the first finance leader it has ever embedded inside one of its plants.

This is a build‑out. If you have personally stood up the finance function for a new plant (a build‑out, start‑up, relocation, or consolidation), or stepped into one that wasn’t running smoothly, keep reading.

• You have personally built a plant finance function (start‑up, build‑out, relocation, or consolidation), or stepped into one that wasn’t running smoothly and fixed it, and can walk through exactly what you put in place.
• You know a plant floor cold: efficiency/OEE, bill of materials, scrap and waste, absorption, plant spend, forecasting, AOP and budgets, capital/capitalization.
• You operate without a net. No one is sitting next to you; you already know what needs to be done and you do it.
• You default to building. You document, create, standardize, and train processes that don’t exist yet.
• You are energized by ambiguity. A lot here is not laid out A‑to‑Z, and you want to be the one who figures it out.
• You will be onsite for the build and want to be, because you know the plant floor doesn’t trust a finance partner who isn’t there.
• You are comfortable in an older, legacy ERP. You’ve been around the block, not fresh out of school.

• Your plant experience is stepping into a mature, smoothly running close and keeping it going. You have never built or fixed one.
• You have been adjacent to plant operations (corporate FP&A, reporting‑only) but never personally owned efficiency, BOM, absorption, and waste.
• You need defined process, a team, and structure handed to you before you can perform.
• You want fully remote or a corporate‑office seat. This role is onsite at the plant through the build.
• You expect someone else to make the calls. There is no controller above you at this plant; you set what good looks like.

• A PE‑backed manufacturer and distributor, standing up a new flagship manufacturing plant with an attached distribution hub in the Atlanta metro. A true build, with infrastructure going in in real time.
• Runs lean in finance. This is the first finance role ever placed inside one of its plants; you are creating the standard, not inheriting it.
• A full onsite leadership team is being built around this plant (plant director, engineering, quality, continuous improvement, HR, warehouse). You won’t be alone, but finance is yours.

• Flexibility that’s real, not a policy on paper. Go to your kid’s game, handle life; no one is counting hours.
• Onsite through the build, which the right person wants to be there for, with genuine openness to hybrid as the plant stabilizes.
• You’ll report to a leader who wants a true problem‑solver and partner, gives you room to run, and trusts you to own it.
• A lean, close‑knit team where your work is seen and your judgment carries weight.
• Autonomy with real support. You own the finance function, and leadership backs you.

• Base: $140 000 to $150 000+ with flexibility for the right person.
• Bonus: 10%+ with a high payout history.
• Relocation available.
• Location:
  
  Onsite, McDonough, GA (Atlanta metro).

• Plant / manufacturing controller experience that includes a build‑out, start‑up, plant relocation, consolidation, or turnaround of a plant that wasn’t running smoothly.
• Fluency in plant/cost finance: OEE, BOM, absorption, scrap/waste, plant spend, forecasting, AOP, budgets, capital.
• A self‑directed operator who has built and documented process without oversight.
• Willing to be onsite in McDonough (Atlanta metro) through the build with…