Plant Cost and Asset Controller

The science of electronics is transforming exponentially through innovation and connectivity around the planet. Every day, breakthroughs are making technologies - from micro-processors, memory chips and flat panels to photovoltaic cells - even smaller and more powerful, opening up countless new possibilities in how the world lives, works and connects. Air Liquide Advanced Materials grows by enabling our customers to innovate. Our ALOHA™ and Voltaix® products are critical to the manufacturer of the newest computer chips required for Big Data and the Internet of Things.

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The Plant Cost and Asset Controller is responsible for delivering and facilitating a detailed analysis of site costs, which means all aspects of understanding and improving the cost management practices at the manufacturing site or the profit center level, and support site management to control on-site inventory, assets, and spare-parts. These goals will be achieved via a combination of (a) delivering detailed cost reporting, with the guidance of the entity's Finance organization, for relevant cost centers (Global Planning, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Engineering, etc.) to site management, (b) preparing recurring and ad-hoc site-level data analysis with the guidance of Ops Control to ensure the proper categorization of costs, (c) developing asset, inventory, and consumable spare-parts management discipline (d) supporting site management to identify the opportunities to ultimately eliminate inefficiencies throughout all aspects of the manufacturing sites and, (e) enabling Investment Management and Ops Control to review operating asset performance vs expectation.

The Plant Cost and Asset Controller will also ensure that costs are appropriately classified, and reported accurately. The controller will enable the Operations Control team, Financial Reporting team, Planning, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Quality and Safety teams to help develop and analyze costs, assets and investments to support the site's ambitions. This position will offer a unique experience with enriching contact between Manufacturing and Finance. This position will report directly to the GM of ALAM US and functionally to the ALAM Ops Controller, and will be based in ALAM's PA2, Pennsylvania site while also supporting the UMB, Pennsylvania site.

Candidates must have valid employment authorization in the U.S. and must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. This position is not open for non-immigrant visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities for this assignment include but are not limited to :

Costs and Inventory Analysis :

• Enable site leaders to analyze the evolution of monthly costs, including determination of trends, and assist in maintaining costs within budget assigned by operations control;
• Facilitate the efficiency program at site level to enable site management to achieve the cost optimization objectives set by Site Management and Ops Control;
• Ensure the performance of cycle counts, and the biannual physical count by site personnel in accordance with Internal Controls criteria, under the supervision of Entity Finance;
• Provide monthly inventory, mobile asset, and consumable spare-parts consumption analysis with extensive explanations on any deviations to entity Finance and Ops Control managers in close collaboration with the team on site;
• Implement robust, standardized processes to manage and oversee spare parts consumption;
• Support site management, Ops Control, and the Investment Director to enable the review of the realization of expected benefits for investments on-site;
• Review exception reports from SAP, and enable site management to maintain the quality of data and reliability of information streams in a satisfactory level;
• Enable Ops Control to monitor profitability of ALAM products at site level;
• Assist entity finance manager to ensure accurate cost allocation across cost centers while assessing variances;
• Lead the development of reporting metrics, tools, and carry out complex, ad hoc analysis;

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