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Imagine yourself… Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you. Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project. Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth. You have likely purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week—after all, Videojet is a world leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding and marking products, consumables, and software solutions.
Videojet’s technologies play a critical role in ensuring the safety and authenticity of products sold across the globe in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces . As part of the Videojet team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll work with products that make an everyday impact on the world around you—and along the way, you’ll have opportunities to make your mark on our business and your career with ongoing opportunities to deepen your skillset and pursue your ambitions.
Learn more about how our values influence our culture and who we are ; Learn about our leading portfolio of innovative products here! We offer: A flexible, remote-friendly work environment Paid holidays and a permissive paid time off policy emphasizing flexibility and trust Ongoing investment in your career through dedicated training, on-the-job development, and coaching Total rewards that support your success at work and beyond, including comprehensive health benefits, a 401(k) savings plan with employer match, and associate wellbeing programming with rewards About the role: We're seeking a Plant Controller to serve as a strategic financial business partner to the plant directors and operations leadership teams across Videojet's Wood Dale and Elk Grove facilities.
In this role, you'll harness data-driven insights and deep financial acumen to identify productivity opportunities, influence operational decisions, and deliver measurable, favorable impacts to cost across North American manufacturing. This is an opportunity to sit at the intersection of finance and operations—shaping how two high-priority manufacturing sites perform financially while building your career within a globally recognized, purpose-driven organization.
You'll work closely with plant directors, cost accounting, supply chain, and the broader Operations Finance team to translate financial data into clear, actionable business intelligence. Success in this role means that within 12–18 months, the Wood Dale and Elk Grove facilities have stronger financial visibility, productivity initiatives are clearly tracked and delivering results, and plant directors view you as an indispensable strategic partner in their decision-making.
What You'll Do In this role, you will: Lead the development of site-level operating budgets and financial forecasts, collaborating with plant leadership to build credible, operations-aligned plans. Partner with plant directors and site leadership teams at Wood Dale and Elk Grove to deliver proactive financial insights that drive productivity and operational decision-making. Analyze plant-level cost performance, including material, labor, and overhead variances, and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations for operations leaders.
Drive identification and tracking of cost improvement and productivity initiatives, ensuring financial impacts are quantified, reported, and realized. Deliver timely and accurate monthly financial reporting for both facilities, including variance analysis, KPI dashboards, and forward-looking risk and opportunity assessments. Collaborate with the Cost Accounting and global finance team to ensure cost accounting practices are applied consistently and accurately at the plant level.
Support capital expenditure planning and post-investment analysis, partnering with plant directors to prioritize and evaluate productivity-enhancing investments. Influence