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PQ is a leading global provider of silicates, silicas and derivative products. PQ's products are used in a wide variety of industrial processes and many customer products, from decorative paints to green cement, from clean drinking water to green tires and from toothpaste to biofuels and beer.
Ideal candidates resonate with PQ's Core Values of Integrity, Sustainability, People, Customer Focus and Safety. Successful employees embrace and model these values in their behaviors and actions.
Reporting to the Cost Accounting Manager, the Cost Accountant will provide accounting and analytical support over manufacturing and distribution costs, partnering with the Operations Leadership teams in directing and controlling the business performance across the US and Canada sites.
More specific responsibilities include (but not limited to):
Technical Success Factors:
The Cost Accountant will have matured 3-5 years in an accounting/manufacturing plant accounting, has a proactive mindset and excellent time-management skills. Additionally, the candidate will possess:
Personality and Cultural Success Factors:
The Cost Accountant must also possess the following traits:
Travel to the plant locations as needed (training, process evaluations, review of procedural techniques, cost reduction evaluations).
In addition to the necessary skills and experience to perform the responsibilities outlined above, there are several traits that a successful candidate will possess.
EHS Responsibilities
PQ is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Click on the link to read Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal (eeoc.gov). For more information, please review the link Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (eeoc.gov).
Full Time
Durable Manufacturing
$81k-100k (estimate)
04/10/2024
07/01/2024
pqcorp.com
CHESTER, PA
1,000 - 3,000
1831
ALAN ROGERS
<$5M
Durable Manufacturing
We are a leading global provider of specialty catalysts, materials, chemicals, and services that enable environmental improvements, enhance consumer products, and increase personal safety. Our Environmental Catalysts and Services business segment provides products and solutions which help our customers produce vehicles with improved fuel efficiency and cleaner emissions. We produce highly engineered materials that make highways and airports safer for drivers and pilots. We hold market leadership positions in each of our major product groups. We believe our products deliver significant value to... our customers, as demonstrated by our profit margins. Our products, which are mostly additives, catalysts, and services, typically constitute a small portion of our customers overall end-product costs, yet are critical to product performance. With our value-added products, we seek to address global issues that are often either the subject of significant regulations or are driven by consumer preferences, which we believe fuels our growth. Since our products are predominantly inorganic and carbon-free, we believe we contribute to improving the sustainability of our planet. Our products and solutions help companies produce vehicles with improved fuel efficiency and cleaner emissions. We produce highly engineered materials that make highways and airports safer for drivers and pilots. In personal care applications, we have collaborated with leading consumer products companies over a number of years to develop a family of gentle silica-based dentifrice abrasives that produce more effective cleaning toothpastes. Through a collaborative innovation process, we have developed zeolite-based catalysts that are an effective and efficient method to reduce pollutants in diesel engines and enable our customers to meet increasingly stringent vehicle emission standards worldwide.
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