# Controls Engineer

Together We Innovate. Together We Change. Ready to power the future of manufacturing through automation and innovation? If so, then we have an opportunity for you! As a Controls Engineer, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of automation and control systems that drive safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing operations. Partnering with cross-functional teams and Integrated Work Systems (IWS) stakeholders, you will support high-speed production environments by improving system performance, enhancing equipment reliability, and delivering continuous improvement solutions. This position is fully onsite in Hopkinsville, KY, with approximately 30-40% regional travel to Clarksville, TN, and Nashville, TN. What you will be doing: Design, program, troubleshoot, and optimize PLC, HMI, SCADA, and industrial control systems. Support automation integration across processing, packaging, and conveying systems. Configure and support VFDs, servo systems, instrumentation, and process controls. Integrate OEM equipment into plant-wide automation systems. Drive standardization of controls platforms, programming structures, and documentation. Provide technical support during eq

- **Id**: 4241372
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altria-controls-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T12:12:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T12:24:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4792
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 1775024
- **Name**: Altria
- **Domain**: altria.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/altria>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Salary

- **Min**: 104900
- **Max**: 152150
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 152150

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Kentucky** — Kind: city
- **Tennessee** — Kind: city

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:12:42Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T14:51:54Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 152150
- **Is top pay**: yes

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