Plant Controller - Longview, Texas

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Located in Longview, TX

Salary: Competitive comp & benefits!

An industry leader is seeking an experienced Plant Controller to join their team!

What You Get to Do! 
The Plant Controller is an embedded, on-site FP&A leader who serves as the primary finance partner to plant leadership – supporting the Plant Director and functional leaders with decision-ready financial insight, forecasting, and operational performance management. This role owns the plant-level planning rhythm (budget, forecast, and driver-based outlooks), translates operational drivers into financial outcomes, and drives visibility to risks and opportunities across cost, margin, inventory performance, and capital. 

The role is both a people leader for a small plant finance team and an individual contributor, and serves as the primary escalation point for plant finance questions, analytics, and performance management. The role is finance-only in scope and does not perform traditional accounting execution tasks (e.g., booking journal entries). Instead, the role partners closely with Accounting/Cost Accounting to ensure alignment between management views and statutory close outputs, and to support SOX-compliant processes and controls. 

The role delivers standard KPI dashboards and digital reporting tools that create transparency to margin performance and plant cost drivers and is expected to be on-site 5 days per week initially.  Hybrid flexibility may be considered after the role is fully ramped and the operating rhythm is stable.  

What You Will Bring…
•    Requires a bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline
•    8+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing finance, plant FP&A, cost/operations finance, or business partnering roles. 
•    Experience with plant costing, standard cost governance, supporting annual physical inventories, and leading cost reduction initiatives is strongly preferred. 
•    MBA, CPA, CMA, or similar certification preferred but not required.
•    Strong understanding of manufacturing financial drivers and plant KPIs (conversion cost, labor efficiency, overhead absorption behavior, material usage, scrap/rework, inventory and working-capital drivers).
•    Advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities; strong financial modeling skills and ability to perform scenario and sensitivity analyses.
•    Demonstrated ability to build and maintain KPI dashboards, digital reporting tools, and standardized performance packages that are used in operating rhythms (daily/weekly/monthly).
•    Ability to communicate complex financial information in plain language to plant leaders; strong presentation skills and executive presence.
•    Strong collaboration and influencing skills; ability to build trust across operations and support decisions without formal authority.
•    People leadership capability: hiring, coaching, prioritization, and quality control for a small plant finance team while also delivering individual-contributor analysis and executive-ready outputs.
•    Ability to serve as a clear escalation point—triaging ambiguous questions, pulling together data quickly, and providing crisp recommendations under time pressure.
•    Process discipline and attention to detail: documentation of assumptions, version control, and repeatable reporting routines.
•    Comfort operating in environments with evolving systems and imperfect data; bias toward timely, directionally correct insights while improving precision over time.
•    Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with reporting/BI tools a plus; SAP proficiency is a major plus.

To Apply: For confidential consideration, please submit resume to karen.turner@expresspros.com  

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