Senior Plant Controller — P&L, Costing & Inventory

Peraton; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Plant Controller to serve as the senior financial leader for the Remotec manufacturing site in Clinton, Tennessee. This role owns the plant P&L, cost accounting, inventory integrity, forecasting, and internal controls, partnering with production leadership to improve cost, cash, and decision quality as production scales.

The position requires a manufacturing cost-accounting foundation, shop-floor comfort, and the ability to influence operations while maintaining strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 12+ years of progressive manufacturing finance or cost accounting experience, including plant or multi-plant responsibility.
• Ownership of a manufacturing P&L and job order cost environment (BOMs, routings, labor and overhead rates, variance analysis).
• Hands-on month-end close, inventory accounting, and internal controls experience.
• Advanced Excel and fluency with ERP manufacturing modules; ability to extract and challenge transactional data.
• Willingness to work on-site, Clinton, TN plant (production leadership interaction).
• US Citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Own the site income statement, balance sheet items under plant control, and cash conversion metrics.
• Lead annual operating plan, monthly forecasts, and rolling outlooks; explain variances to plant and corporate leadership.
• Present results in operations reviews; recommend corrective actions on margin, absorption, scrap, overtime, and spend.
• Partner with Plant Manager as a co-leader of site performance.
• Maintain job order cost system for robot assemblies and subassemblies with multi-level BOMs.
• Model capacity, overtime, shift structure, and automation investment vs. labor cost.
• Coordinate external/internal audits; lead cycle count and physical inventory processes.

Skills

Manufacturing finance

Cost accounting

P&L ownership

Month-end close

Advanced Excel

ERP manufacturing modules

Data extraction & validation

On-site work

US Citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

ERP manufacturing modules

Excel

Global Shop

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Plant Controller to serve as the senior financial leader for the Remotec manufacturing site in Clinton, Tennessee. This role owns the plant P&L, cost accounting, inventory integrity, forecasting, and internal controls, partnering with production leadership to improve cost, cash, and decision quality as production scales.

The position requires a manufacturing cost-accounting foundation, shop-floor comfort, and the ability to influence operations while maintaining strong