Controller - Plant Finance Operational Excellence

Relocate to West Michigan's Lakeshore — Beaches, Small-Town Life, and Room to Grow

Imagine trading your commute for Lake Michigan sunsets, sandy beaches, and a tight-knit lakeshore community, with Grand Rapids' restaurants, breweries, and big-city amenities just a short drive away. This West Michigan lakeshore region offers an exceptional quality of life at a low cost of living, with year-round outdoor recreation right out your back door and a genuine small-town feel that's increasingly hard to find. It's the kind of place people move to and don't leave.

The company provides full relocation assistance, with candidates able to begin the role remotely for 30-60 days while relocation logistics are finalized.

Our client is a leading manufacturer of aero and industrial gas turbine components and a globally recognized, publicly traded company with more than 75 years of innovation, growth, and technical excellence. Renowned across the aerospace industry, the organization fosters a culture that values continuous improvement, professional development, and inclusion. Forbes has recognized it as one of the World's Best Employers, a reflection of its commitment to employee success, forward-thinking leadership, and global impact in the aerospace and energy sectors. With over $7 billion in revenue, the company continues to thrive in its industry.

What Sets This Opportunity Apart

• Publicly traded global leader on a sustained path of growth and innovation
• Recognized by Forbes as a Top Global Employer
• Comprehensive benefits starting Day 1, including medical, dental, vision, and more
• 9% 401(k) dollar-for-dollar match, with employer contributions to your Retirement Savings Plan each pay period
• A vibrant, collaborative culture where cross-functional teams thrive
• Robust training programs and continuous learning opportunities
• Free on-site fitness center membership to support your well-being

Our client is seeking a strategic finance leader to partner with the Plant Manager and drive financial excellence at a key manufacturing facility. This role offers the opportunity to be at the center of operational decision-making, providing insights, analysis, and leadership that directly impact performance and profitability.

As a Finance Business Partner, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Information Systems, Procurement, and Accounting, to ensure robust manufacturing systems are in place. You'll play a hands-on role in shaping business improvement initiatives, setting performance goals with plant leadership, and analyzing results across quality, productivity, delivery, cycle time, inventory optimization, and profitability.

This position also involves building economic models to evaluate investments, cost savings opportunities, and product line decisions; supporting business unit initiatives; and leading the forecasting, planning, and reporting processes. You'll manage the capital appropriation process and post-project reviews, ensure compliance with financial reporting requirements and Sarbanes-Oxley controls, and provide leadership to a talented finance team.

This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional who thrives in a dynamic manufacturing environment and enjoys being a true business partner, driving strategy, ensuring financial rigor, and helping the plant reach its full potential.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS in Business Administration and/or Finance/Accounting from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 7 years of related financial/controllership work experience.
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of supervisory experience with the ability to manage and develop Staff (Financial and Operational)
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment in the finance field
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• MBA, CMA, and/or CPA
• Plant Controller experience for a manufacturing facility with at least $150 million in annual revenues.
• High proficiency in using MS Office software, experience with Oracle, Hyperion, or similar systems, project management, multi-tasking, and developing/executing data queries.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
• Strong organizational skills in managing multiple projects with tight deadlines in a high-pressure/high-intensity environment.
• Strong cost accounting skills,  Multi-level Routing, and Bill of materials cost accounting experience.

Key to the role:

• Enterprise-minded--understands the needs of the business and how decisions affect P&L, balance sheet, and future capabilities; influences cap-ex based on a broad business case
• Responsive expertise--prepared with information to help guide decision-making, both upon request and for future planning
• Compliance--organized and aware of legal and local ramifications to decisions and practices; proactively prepared for audits
• Data-oriented--anticipates and solves problems from a data-informed perspective; forecasts accurately and tracks closely; intervenes in ways that influence numbers
• Involved and curious--spends time on the shop floor to understand business in greater detail; seeks to make improvements and strengthen partnerships through relationships and comprehension; understands operational consequences of decisions
• Analysis--reviews decisions and data ex post facto to glean increased understanding; incorporates learning into future decision-making
• Accountability--compares the business case to actual performance and collaborates with other leaders to ensure the success of investments
• Interpretation and translation--able to tell a story with the data; brings life to the numbers through observation and familiarity with the business
• Prioritization--understands market and organizational conditions and prioritizes efforts accordingly; manages tension between revenue and costs, etc.
• Communication--proactively provides information about data, forecasting, and financials to enable the best possible decision-making for individual leaders and the organization; seeks information from others and disseminates accordingly as a conduit or hub
• Coach/Mentor/Manager-- formally and informally develops others and contributes to talent factory strategy; provides direction, review, reassurance, encouragement, challenge, recognition on an individual basis; promotes growth and development in associates; inspires risk; continually assesses and reassesses talent and fit to role based on individual and collective performance.

About Augmentis
Augmentis is a specialized recruiting firm focused on accounting, finance, procurement, and engineering talent across the U.S. We partner with growth‑oriented companies to match high‑impact professionals with meaningful roles.​

To learn more about Augmentis, visit our website: www.augment-is.com 

Representation/employer clarification:

Augmentis is conducting this search on behalf of our client. The selected candidate will be employed directly by our client, not by Augmentis.

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