# Principal Process Engineer I

Are you passionate about solving complex manufacturing and product development challenges while commercializing new products? Join our team as a Principal Process Engineer in Richmond, VA, where you'll lead process development and scale-up initiatives that enable the successful launch and continuous improvement of our smokeable product portfolio. In this role, you'll apply deep technical expertise across pilot and commercial manufacturing environments, partner with cross-functional teams, and drive solutions that enhance product quality, process capability, and operational performance. What will you do: Lead cross-functional product and manufacturing initiatives spanning Product Design, Tobacco Processing, Leaf Blending, Quality, Regulatory, and Manufacturing Operations to enable commercialization of new smokeable products and implement product or process changes across the portfolio. Serve as a technical lead for complex programs, influencing decisions across matrixed teams and providing data-driven recommendations to senior leaders regarding process capability, product performance, risk mitigation, and commercialization readiness. Establish and maintain deep technical expertise i

- **Id**: 4241349
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altria-principal-process-engineer-i>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **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**: 6085
- **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**: 119600
- **Max**: 173450
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 173450

## Technologies

- **Design of Experiments** — Optional: no
- **GMP** — Optional: no

## 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

## 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**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T14:29:56Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 173450
- **Is top pay**: yes

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