Primient
Food Ingredients · Food & Beverages
Truth index B
42Open roles15 posted in 30 days+4 this week
$74kMedian advertised pay$50k – $80k
46 daysTime to fillmedian of 45 closed rolesmarket: 33 days
B 78/100Truth index
Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026Primient is a US producer of food and industrial ingredients made from corn and other plant-based renewable sources, headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, supplying the food, beverage, paper, packaging, personal care, apparel and animal nutrition industries. Its roots go back to 1906, when Gene Staley founded the corn wet milling business that grew around Decatur, still its main production hub alongside plants in Lafayette, Dayton, Duluth and other sites in the US, Brazil and Poland. Its openings include process and electrical engineers, HR business partners, logistics analysts and a large summer internship program in engineering, data, safety and HR.
It is hiring: 42 open roles, 15 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- Schaumburg, United States
- Founded
- 1906
- Employees
- 1001-5000estimated range
- Open roles
- 42 in 13 citiesAlion job postings
- Official records
- Wikidata Q136351861
- Website
- primient.com
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 42 open roles at Primient. Primient is headquartered in Schaumburg, United States. It was founded in 1906. The median pay stated in its open roles is $74k, across 7 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
78/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Field & Service is the largest family, 27 of open roles.
15Posted in 30 days36% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 42
13Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
73 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand57
Pay49
Your chance52
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 28This week
Open roles a week: 41 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
B
78 / 100Primient scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 17 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 88% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 46 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale88%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 53%High School Diploma 41%Master's Degree 6%
Experience asked: 5.1 years on average, in 24 postings. 34 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Contract type
Internship 6
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
What its postings pay, by level.
$74kMedian
$50k – $80kTypical rangeUSD a year
$500kHighest paying roleSr. Engineer, Starch, Decatur
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked
$0$25k$50k$75k$100k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 13 cities in 2 countries.
13Cities
2Countries
DecaturBusiest site
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| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schaumburg United States | Headquarters | 6 | HR, Administrative, Finance | 0% |
| Decatur United States | Plant / site | 13 | Industrial Engineering, Operations, Field & Service | 8% |
| Lafayette United States | Plant / site | 5 | Field & Service, Analytics, Industrial Engineering | 20% |
| Dayton United States | Plant / site | 4 | Industrial Engineering, Administrative, Field & Service | 0% |
| Loudon United States | Plant / site | 4 | Finance, Field & Service, Industrial Engineering | 0% |
| Łódź Poland | Plant / site | 2 | Finance, Early Careers | 0% |
| Duluth United States | Not classified | 1 | Field & Service | 0% |
| Watseka United States | Not classified | 1 | Field & Service | 0% |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Peers
Compare →Ranked #2 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cargill | Wayzata, United States | 934 | 5000+ | |
| 2 | Primient | Schaumburg, United States | 42 | 1001-5000 | |
| 3 | Red Star® Yeast | Milwaukee, United States | 18 | 501-1000 | |
| 4 | Soyuzsnab | Krasnogorsk, Russia | 12 | 1001-5000 | |
| 5 | AAK | Munich, Germany | 10 | 1001-5000 | |
| 6 | Bluegrass Ingredients | Glasgow, United States | 4 | ||
| 7 | ChipMonk Baking | Houston, United States | - | ||
| 8 | Nguyen Coffee Supply | Brooklyn, United States | - |
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at Primient over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
13Technologies in use
20Postings analysed
74/100Stack modernity
LanguagesSQL 20%Python 10%
DatabasesPostgreSQL 5%
Cloud & platformsPower BI 60%Tableau 15%Windows 10%Spark 5%
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Full Primient tech stack13 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Nov 9
First executive search Sr. Director, Talent Acquisition and Management
Sep 17
First role in Brazil Account Manager
Jun 19
First sales or marketing role Account Manager
Jun 9
First role in Poland FP&A Financial Analyst
Apr 5
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
Sep 142026
News · chicagobears.com
The Chicago Bears announced a new multi-year partnership with Primient, naming the biomanufacturer as the Official History Partner of the Chicago Bears and primary sponsor of the…
Apr 52026
Press release · businesswire.com
Jan 142026
News · YahooFinance
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., January 14, 2026--Primient, a global leader in biomanufacturing, announced today it has agreed to purchase the remaining ownership interest in Primient Covation…
Aug 2, 20242024
News · FoodNavigator.com
Plant-based ingredient company Primient is partnering with biomanufacturing infrastructure developer Synonym on a pilot facility in Decatur, Ill., to spur bioproduct innovation a…
May 28, 20242024
News · dailyherald.com
Mar 11, 20242024
News · Pulse 2.0
Primient (a leader in plant-based food and industrial ingredient production) announced a capital investment exceeding $700 million across the company's operational footprint. The…
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once