Plant Controller
Role Overview
The Plant Controller is the financial leader for the Waterville site and a key member of the plant leadership team.
This role partners with plant and Finance leaders to improve cost, performance, controls, and decision-making through clear financial analysis and recommendations.
Key Responsibilitie s
Key Skills for This Role
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Qualifications
- Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- Five or more years of manufacturing operations finance or accounting leadership experience.
- Experience in costing, budgeting, forecasting, inventory accounting, controls, and capital evaluation.
- People-leadership experience and the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
- Strong ERP and advanced Excel skills, including inventory, costing, reconciliations, and account review.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills; ability to turn complex analysis into clear recommendations.
- Experience leading change or continuous improvement.
- Preferred
- CPA or CMA; master’s degree desirable.
- Oracle, BI, visualization, reporting automation, and manufacturing systems experience.
- Lean, Kaizen, World Class Operations, or similar continuous improvement experience.
- Food packaging, paperboard, converting, or related manufacturing experience.
- Work Environment
- Onsite at the Waterville manufacturing site with regular shop-floor and plant leadership engagement.
- Periodic support outside normal business hours may be required for close, budgets, audits, inventory, or significant operating events.
- Physical ability to do work requiring frequent stooping, standing, squatting, bending, crawling, twisting, walking and lifting up to 50 lbs. occasionally.
- What we offer in return
- Our products are only as good as the people we hire, so we make sure to hire the best and treat them accordingly. Huhtamaki offers a comprehensive traditional benefits package including medical insurance as well as dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, 401K, and a pension. We also proudly offer a slate of more nontraditional perks – opportunities like online learning and development courses, tuition reimbursement, employee referral bonus program, wellness program, onsite medical staff, monthly employee plate store benefits, monthly onsite boot truck, and various mentorship programs – that encourage our associates to grow personally as they develop professionally. You’ll also enjoy Paid Time Off and holiday pay because we believe a work-life balance is more than just a buzzword – it’s part of our culture.
- Trace your own Path! Join us to shape the future together!
- Equal Employment Opportunity
- Huhtamaki is an equal opportunity employer. EEO/AA Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
- Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred
- Our products are only as good as the people we hire, so we make sure to hire the best and treat them accordingly. Huhtamaki offers a comprehensive traditional benefits package including medical insurance as well as dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, 401K, and a pension. We also proudly offer a slate of more nontraditional perks – opportunities like online learning and development courses, tuition reimbursement, employee referral bonus program, wellness program, onsite medical staff, monthly employee plate store benefits, monthly onsite boot truck, and various mentorship programs – that encourage our associates to grow personally as they develop professionally. You’ll also enjoy Paid Time Off and holiday pay because we believe a work-life balance is more than just a buzzword – it’s part of our culture.
About Huhtamaki
Public Finnish food-packaging manufacturer serving foodservice operators, retailers, consumer-goods companies, and consumers worldwide.
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