Freelance Plastics Cost Supervisor Needed

I run a medium-scale plastics packaging line and I need a cost specialist to keep our numbers tight and transparent as we scale up production. The work centres on the manufacturing process itself—raw resin intake, extrusion, moulding, finishing, and in-house quality checks—so every figure you generate must tie directly back to shop-floor reality.

Your day-to-day will involve:
• Building reliable cost estimations for current and upcoming SKUs, drawing on BOM data, machine-hour rates, labour, and overhead.
• Tracking the running budget in real time, flagging overruns early, and highlighting where variances creep in versus our targets.
• Analysing expenses each week, translating ledger entries into clear insights the production and procurement teams can act on.

We already log data in Excel and an in-house ERP; connect your own templates or Power BI dashboards if that speeds your workflow. My acceptance criteria are straightforward: estimates within ±5 % of actuals, a concise dashboard updated every Friday, and a monthly summary that tells me what to optimise next.

If you know plastics manufacturing cost drivers inside out and can present numbers that managers, accountants, and operators all grasp at a glance, let’s get started.