Not Your Everyday Plant Controller! Come GROW with US!

Job Description

Job Description

We’re growing — and we’re looking for a Plant Controller who wants to be part of building what’s next.

One Fine Family is expanding, and we’re looking for an experienced Plant Controller to join our team and play a key role in the financial and operational performance of our growing manufacturing business.

This is not a traditional desk-bound accounting role!

Our Plant Controller is a hands-on finance partner who gets into the operation, understands how the product is made, challenges the numbers when they don’t make sense, and works directly with Operations and Finance leadership to improve performance.

If you’re the kind of finance professional who wants to know why the numbers look the way they do — and what can be done about them — this could be a great opportunity.

About the Role

The Plant Controller will own and influence key areas of manufacturing finance, including inventory control, standard costing, product costing, manufacturing variance analysis, plant performance, and financial reporting.

You’ll work closely with plant leadership, Operations, Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, and Finance to connect what’s happening on the production floor to the financial results of the business.

You won’t just report the numbers.

You’ll help improve them!! AND you won't have to wear a suit while doing it, jeans are A-OK!

This role is ideal for someone who is analytical, curious, hands-on, and comfortable asking questions, getting onto the production floor, investigating discrepancies, and working cross-functionally to solve problems.

What You’ll Do

Inventory & Cost Control

• Own the financial controls surrounding raw materials, packaging, work-in-process, finished goods, and critical spare parts inventory.
• Establish and continuously improve cycle count, physical inventory, reconciliation, and inventory adjustment processes.
• Partner with Operations to ensure inventory controls are followed consistently and effectively.
• Investigate significant or recurring inventory discrepancies, identify root causes, and drive corrective action.
• Reconcile physical inventory activity to financial records and investigate unexplained differences.
• Develop reporting that identifies inventory accuracy trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Partner with Maintenance and Operations to establish appropriate tracking, valuation, and controls for critical spare parts.
• Recommend and implement controls that improve inventory accuracy and reduce financial exposure.

Standard Costing & Product Cost Management

• Own and maintain manufacturing standard costs within the Company's ERP system.
• Establish and validate standards for raw materials, packaging, labor, yields, and manufacturing overhead.
• Ensure standards reflect actual production processes, material costs, labor requirements, equipment usage, and expected yields.
• Conduct or coordinate production-floor testing, time studies, yield studies, packaging usage studies, and labor studies.
• Identify product cost standards that no longer accurately reflect manufacturing activity and recommend updates.
• Partner with Operations and Continuous Improvement to understand the operational drivers behind product costs and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and margins.

Manufacturing Variance Analysis

• Analyze monthly manufacturing variances and clearly explain the operational drivers behind financial results.
• Evaluate material usage, yield, labor efficiency, packaging usage, purchase price, production volume, product mix, dumps, and other manufacturing variances.
• Investigate unusual, significant, or recurring variances and determine the underlying cause.
• Distinguish true operating performance from issues caused by incorrect standards, transaction errors, timing differences, inventory inaccuracies, system issues, or incomplete production reporting.
• Identify trends and recurring drivers and communicate findings to Finance and Operations leadership.
• Partner with Operations to develop and monitor corrective actions.
• Challenge results that don’t make sense and keep digging until the story behind the numbers is understood.

Plant Performance & Operations Finance

• Serve as a trusted Finance partner to plant leadership.
• Lead regular financial and operational performance reviews with Operations.
• Provide financial insight into yield, labor efficiency, throughput, dumps, packaging consumption, downtime, production mix, and manufacturing margin.
• Conduct production-floor testing to validate yields, labor requirements, packaging consumption, and other operating metrics.
• Partner with Operations and Continuous Improvement to identify opportunities to improve productivity, margins, efficiency, and cost control.
• Translate financial results into practical, understandable information that plant leaders can use to make better decisions.
• Respond quickly to emerging issues and help drive solutions rather than allowing problems to accumulate.

Financial Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare timely plant-level financial analysis and reporting for Finance and Operations leadership.
• Analyze financial results and identify trends, risks, opportunities, and areas requiring management attention.
• Support month-end close activities related to manufacturing, inventory, costing, accruals, and plant operations.
• Ensure plant financial information is accurate, complete, timely, and supported by underlying operational activity.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, audits, and special projects.
• Provide ad hoc analysis to support business decisions.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• 5–8+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, including at least 3 years of meaningful experience in cost accounting, plant finance, manufacturing accounting, or operational finance.
• Strong knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting, manufacturing variances, physical inventory controls, product costing, and manufacturing accruals.
• Demonstrated experience with cycle counts, physical inventories, inventory reconciliations, and inventory adjustments.
• Experience maintaining manufacturing standards and investigating inventory discrepancies and manufacturing variances.
• Experience performing or coordinating plant-level testing, including yield, labor, material usage, packaging, or other manufacturing studies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to independently investigate issues, identify root causes, and drive corrective action.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, changing manufacturing environment and manage competing priorities.
• Ability to travel between our Baltimore, MD and Hanover, MD campuses.
• Candidates must successfully pass a post-offer/pre-employment drug test and background screen.

What Makes This Opportunity Different?

You’ll have a seat at the table — and your work will be visible.

This is an opportunity to join a growing manufacturing organization where Finance is closely connected to the operation.

You’ll work directly with plant leadership and Finance leadership while having a meaningful influence on:

• Inventory accuracy and controls
• Manufacturing costs and margins
• Standard costing
• Production efficiency
• Yield and labor performance
• Manufacturing variance management
• Financial reporting
• Operational decision-making
• Process improvement

You’ll spend time in the office and on the production floor.

You’ll work with the people actually making the product.

You’ll see the process firsthand.

And when something doesn’t add up, you’ll have the opportunity — and the expectation — to figure out why.

We’re looking for someone who is curious, analytical, hands-on, and not afraid to ask, “Why?”

If you enjoy solving problems, working across departments, improving processes, and turning financial information into real operational results, we want to hear from you.

Work Environment & Expectations

This position works across both office and operating environments and requires regular interaction with Production, Warehouse, Maintenance, Operations, and other teams.

Regular presence on the production floor is an important part of the role. When entering operating areas, employees must follow all applicable safety, food safety, quality, sanitation, security, and PPE requirements.

The role may require additional hours during month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, physical inventory, audits, and special projects.

The Plant Controller must be comfortable investigating operational activity firsthand and validating financial information against actual production processes.

The position involves working in and around industrial machinery, production equipment, warehouse areas, processing environments, and refrigerated/cold-storage areas. Warehouse bays may be maintained at approximately 32&degree;F or below, with certain areas maintained at temperatures below 0&degree;F.

Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of the position. Confidentiality of financial, operational, employee, and proprietary company information is required.

About One Fine Family

One Fine Family is built on a simple belief — everyone deserves great chicken at a great price.

Proudly based in Baltimore for more than 60 years, we’ve grown into a family of brands united by that purpose.

One Fine Chicken delivers “Better Chicken for Everyone” with premium quality at an incredible value. Easy Street brings bold, globally inspired flavors to everyday meals, capturing the vibrant spirit of street food culture. Holly Poultry , our food service brand, has earned the trust of some of the nation’s most beloved restaurants, including Raising Cane’s, Hattie B’s, Royal Farms, and Nando’s, by providing fresh, high-quality poultry with unmatched confidence and reliability.

Rooted in community and driven by purpose, One Fine Family proudly gives back, donating more than 300,000 pounds of chicken each year to local food banks and charities — because better chicken should make life better for everyone.

We’re growing, and we’re building the team that will help us get there.

Come grow with us.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Holly Poultry, Inc. and its subsidiaries are Equal Employment Opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Holly Poultry, Inc. and its subsidiaries prohibit discrimination and harassment and are committed to maintaining a workplace where all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

One Fine Family is built on a simple belief — everyone deserves great chicken at a great price. Proudly based in Baltimore for more than 60 years, we’ve grown into a family of brands united by that purpose. One Fine Chicken delivers “Better Chicken for Everyone” with premium quality at an incredible value. Easy Street brings bold, globally inspired flavors to everyday meals, capturing the vibrant spirit of street food culture. Holly Poultry, our food service brand, has earned the trust of some of the nation’s most beloved restaurants, including Raising Cane’s, Hattie B’s, Royal Farms, and Nando’s, by providing fresh, high-quality poultry with unmatched confidence and reliability. Rooted in community and driven by purpose, One Fine Family proudly gives back, donating more than 300,000 pounds of chicken each year to local food banks and charities--because better chicken should make life better for everyone.

Join us and be a part of something bigger. At One Fine Family, we are united by purpose, fueled by passion, and committed to making a difference. Together, we’re shaping the future of food — one plate, one person, and One Fine Family at a time

Company Description

One Fine Family is built on a simple belief — everyone deserves great chicken at a great price. Proudly based in Baltimore for more than 60 years, we’ve grown into a family of brands united by that purpose. One Fine Chicken delivers “Better Chicken for Everyone” with premium quality at an incredible value. Easy Street brings bold, globally inspired flavors to everyday meals, capturing the vibrant spirit of street food culture. Holly Poultry, our food service brand, has earned the trust of some of the nation’s most beloved restaurants, including Raising Cane’s, Hattie B’s, Royal Farms, and Nando’s, by providing fresh, high-quality poultry with unmatched confidence and reliability. Rooted in community and driven by purpose, One Fine Family proudly gives back, donating more than 300,000 pounds of chicken each year to local food banks and charities--because better chicken should make life better for everyone.\r\n\r\nJoin us and be a part of something bigger. At One Fine Family, we are united by purpose, fueled by passion, and committed to making a difference. Together, we’re shaping the future of food — one plate, one person, and One Fine Family at a time