Plant Controller

LJUNGSTRÖM | ARVOS Group; Town of Wellsville (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k matching

Job summary

LJUNGSTRÖM | ARVOS Group seeks a Plant Controller who partners with Operations, Manufacturing and Supply Chain to tie plant activity to the numbers. You’ll sit in production meetings, walk the floor, and help shape planning decisions with a focus on job costing and profitability.

Your role includes challenging standard costs, leading fixed asset work, and ensuring accurate WIP and capex evaluation. On-site role with strong cross-functional collaboration and audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 5+ years of cost accounting or plant controller experience with direct job costing exposure.
• Hands-on experience with WIP tracking, percent-complete methods, or earned value analysis.
• Fixed asset accounting and capital project evaluation experience.
• Advanced Excel and ERP experience (SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics, Epicor, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Lead job costing and profitability initiatives for open jobs and track cost-to-date vs percent-complete.
• Own data integrity in ERP for labor, material, and overhead postings to correct jobs in real time.
• Identify margin erosion trends early and escalate for timely action.
• Perform close-out variance analysis on labor, material/scrap, and overhead; root-cause issues.
• Develop job profitability reporting by customer, job type, and product line.
• Create fully loaded burden rates by work cell and product line.
• Collaborate with Operations on labor efficiency, utilization, and capacity models.

Skills

Cost accounting

WIP tracking

Earned value analysis

Advanced Excel

ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics,

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

SAP

Oracle

MS Dynamics

Epicor

Job description

Finance that lives on the plant floor, not in the back office.

We’re looking for a Plant Controller to be a true finance partner to our Operations, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain leaders. You’ll sit in production meetings, walk the floor, and help shape planning decisions, connecting what happens in the plant to what shows up in the numbers.

Your first priority: build a best-in-class job costing and job profitability function. Your broader mandate: make sure every operational decision is made with a clear view of its financial impact.

What you’ll do

Job costing and profitability (your primary focus)

• Launch a recurring weekly or biweekly job cost review tracking actual cost-to-date against percent-complete on every open job
• Own job cost data integrity in the ERP so labor, material, and overhead post to the right job in real time
• Spot jobs trending toward margin erosion early and elevate the lead time to act
• Run job close-out variance analysis on labor, material/scrap, and overhead, and get to root cause
• Build job profitability reporting by customer, job type, and product line
• Develop fully loaded burden rates by work cell and product line
• Partner with Operations on labor efficiency, utilization, and capacity models that support proactive staffing

Plant finance and close

• Challenge the standard costs, BOMs, and routings behind job estimates
• Lead cycle and physical inventory counts and reconcile WIP to the general ledger
• Support month‑end close, budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, and audit readiness

Fixed assets and capital projects

• Maintain the fixed asset register, including tagging, capitalization, depreciation, and physical verification
• Serve as the site’s point of contact for auditors on fixed asset testing
• Partner with Engineering and Operations to build business cases for capital projects using payback, NPV, and IRR alongside throughput, yield, and labor metrics
• Track capex spend against budget and lead post‑implementation reviews that sharpen future planning

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field (advanced degree a plus)
• 5+ years of cost accounting or plant controller experience with direct job costing exposure; make‑to‑order, engineer‑to‑order, or project shop background strongly preferred
• Hands‑on experience with WIP tracking, percent‑complete methods, or earned value analysis (beyond standard/process costing)
• Fixed asset accounting and capital project evaluation experience
• Advanced Excel skills and hands‑on ERP experience (SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics, Epicor, or similar)
• The resourcefulness to build workarounds when the ERP falls short
• The ability to translate variances into plain‑language, actionable feedback for non‑finance teams
• Comfort working side by side with project managers, estimators, and operations leaders

Why this role

• High visibility and real influence on how the plant runs
• A chance to build the job costing function and shape it through a future ERP implementation or upgrade
• Health, 401k matching and more.

Work environment:

On‑site at the plant with regular time in production areas. PPE required on the floor, with occasional exposure to industrial noise and machinery.