Plant Controller – Packaging Conversion

If you are a manufacturing Plant Controller, you already know the difference between a simple assembly plant and a highly complex conversion environment. You don't just track numbers; you manage the massive financial ripples of raw material changes, machine yields, and high-volume asset utilization.

Due to a combination of internal promotions and retirements, our client is looking for our next Plant Controller to anchor our Louisville folding carton facility, with oversight and support extended to our Hastings location.

To be absolutely clear: These are fast-paced conversion facilities. We need a hands-on financial leader who thrives in complex, process-driven manufacturing environments, think paper conversion, steel, or heavy industrial fabrication (not furniture or food).

If you want to move away from a rigid corporate silo and step into a high-visibility role where you partner directly with plant leadership to drive operational architecture, this is your seat.

How You Will Impact the Plant:

· Operational Partnership: Sitting adjacent to plant leadership to dissect weekly, monthly, and annual forecasting drivers, identifying performance gaps, and mapping out margins.

· Cost & Variance Architecture: Analyzing daily cost data, investigating inventory/material variances, and maintaining high-integrity product costing systems.

· Financial Integrity: Leading the month-end close cycle, preparing balance sheet reconciliations, and building the annual operating budget (P&L and working capital).

· Inventory Control: Overseeing physical and cycle counting frameworks across production lines to stabilize supply chain valuation.

The Profile (Who will thrive here):

· You hold a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

· You have a rock-solid background as a Controller or heavy Cost Accounting Manager within complex, process-type manufacturing (Paper, Steel, Heavy Industrial, or similar conversion environments). Note: Light assembly, food manufacturing, or furniture plants will not match the technical process complexity needed here.

· You have strong ERP mileage (if you have Epicor-AVP experience, that is a massive plus).

· You love being on the plant floor just as much as you love being in Excel.