Job Description

Plant Controller

Redwood City, CA, USA
Req #59

Friday, June 27, 2025

Chemelex is a global leader in electric thermal and sensing solutions, protecting the world's critical processes, places and people. With over 50 years of innovation and a commitment to excellence, we develop solutions that ensure safety, reliability, and efficiency in diverse environments - from industrial plants and data centers to people's homes. We deliver future-ready technologies, advanced engineering capabilities and local expertise backed by global standards. Our offering includes a leading portfolio from our trusted brands: Raychem, Tracer, Nuheat and Pyrotenax.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS ROLE:

• Serve as a highly visible key business partner and support to the plant manager for our flagship lean manufacturing facility.


• Drive productivity, inventory reduction, insights on plant performance and identify opportunities for improvement and managing internal controls.


• Utilize deep understanding of COGS, provide scenarios to Operations for improvement.


• Identify the cost pool with opportunities for improvement, validate savings and keep operations team on track.


• Understand and communicate spend drivers and future impact to business decisions.


• Lead weekly/monthly reviews of spend/hours, preparation of month-end closing entries and plant performance reports, provide plant variance analysis.


• Lead the annual budget and forecasts for the plant.


• Perform annual cost roll and related analytics.


• Understand inventory levels, highlighting opportunities and risk, provide inventory, DIOH, cycle count and E&O analysis and support the team to drive improvement.


• Support capital projects through review of Plant Capital equipment request, providing capital analysis, communicating with project owner and controllership team to close out.


• Partner with SIOP team to understand latest orders trend vs demand planning.


• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal stakeholders (i.e. Internal Audit, FP&A, and more).

YOU HAVE:

• Ideally, an academic background in Accounting, Finance or business related major. Bachelor's degree required.


• 5+ years' experience in or with managing plant financials, with a deep knowledge of cost accounting and standard cost roll-out.


• Proficient in SAP; advanced skills in Excel.


• Excellent written and oral communication skills.


• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.


• Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines with efforts to streamline processes.

At Chemelex:

We protect places of progress through electric excellence.

Pioneering plants, sprawling data centers, busy transport hubs, and your own home. These are the places that bring progress to the world, and the places that we protect with time-tested technologies, advanced engineering, and a suite of services. Because here, excellence is everything.

Our Dimensions of Excellence reflect the core values of Chemelex. Together, they inspire our decisions and guide our actions - defining excellence in our work for colleagues, customers and communities.

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  Experts with empathy



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  Explorer mindset



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  Example for others



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  Exceptional impact

We are committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national, federal, state or local law.

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  Pay Type
  Salary
  
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  Min Hiring Rate
  $107,100.00
  
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  Max Hiring Rate
  $198,900.00
  

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• Redwood City, CA, USA

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