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Plant Controller Jobs
Plant Controller roles are the backbone of manufacturing finance — owning standard cost, variance analysis, month-end close, and the P&L for a single site while acting as the plant manager's financial co-pilot. Every posting here is a real, open search with the full story: the plant, the team, the hiring manager, and honest travel expectations.
Plant Controller compensation typically lands in the $130–175k range, with relocation common for the right plant.
What a Plant Controller actually does
A Plant Controller owns the finance function for a single manufacturing site. Day to day that means maintaining the standard cost model, running variance analysis (purchase price, material usage, labor, and overhead) that operations actually acts on, closing the books each month, and owning the plant P&L and annual operating plan. The strong ones live on the floor as much as behind a desk — reconciling inventory across raw, WIP, and finished goods, justifying CapEx alongside engineering, and translating cost data into decisions the plant manager can make. This is standard, product-level costing, not summary-level corporate reporting.
Experience, credentials, and pay
Most Plant Controllers we place have 7–14 years of manufacturing finance behind them, deep standard-cost and ERP experience (SAP and Oracle are the most common), and a CPA or CMA on top of an accounting or finance degree. Compensation typically runs $130–175k, and relocation is common — the right plant is worth moving for. The usual path in is Cost Accountant, then Senior Cost Accountant or Cost Accounting Manager, then the Controller seat; from there the next steps are multi-site controllership and Director of Plant Finance.
Why these openings are different
Every Plant Controller role on this board is a real, open search written by recruiters who have talked to the hiring team and, often, placed there before. You get the plant, the team, the hiring manager's actual priorities, the ERP, and honest travel and relocation expectations — before you apply. No scraped postings, no ghost jobs, and salary shared up front wherever the client allows it.
6 open Plant Controller roles
Plant Controller
A Fortune 500 building products manufacturer needs a Plant Controller for an upstate South Carolina site, the lone finance seat on a seven-member leadership team, with a major furnace capital event ahead as the first big test.
FORTUNE 500 GLOBAL BUILDING PRODUCTS MANUFACTURER · STARR (ANDERSON AREA), SC
Plant Controller
Own finance at the largest, most complex fiber-packaging site in this manufacturer's North American network — roughly 30 production lines, several hundred employees, and a true seat at the plant leadership table in Waterville, ME.
GLOBAL FOODSERVICE PACKAGING MANUFACTURER · WATERVILLE, ME
Senior Plant Controller (Global Controller)
A Senior Plant Controller seat at a global medical device manufacturer in Lakewood, CO, where the SAP S/4 HANA work and the plant leadership role together lead to Global Controller.
$1B GLOBAL MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURER · LAKEWOOD, CO
Plant Controller
The top finance seat at the crown jewel of a global aerospace network — with executive visibility, a path to director, and revenue on track to nearly double.
PUBLICLY TRADED GLOBAL AEROSPACE MANUFACTURER · SOUTH BAY REGION OF LOS ANGELES, CA
Assistant Plant Controller
The current Plant Controller is intentionally grooming a right-hand who's expected to step into the top plant-finance seat down the road — whoever lands this job is the investment.
$70M GLOBAL ELECTRICAL & POWER EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER · CLEVELAND, OH
Plant Controller
Whoever stood up this controller function over the past five years just moved up to Director of Finance — a pretty telling signal about where this seat can take you.
CENTURY-OLD INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURER · AMARILLO, TX
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