# Automation Engineer

As an Automation Engineer, you will provide electrical and controls design expertise and perform integration tasks that support customer projects and improve related products. You will collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams across the full project lifecycle, from proposal through commissioning, ensuring high-quality, cost-effective automation solutions. What You Will Do Collaborate with clients and application specialists during the tender/bid stage to define control equipment designs and specifications Monitor and advise on costs associated with electrical designs throughout proposals and project execution Program and configure PLCs and SCADA systems to meet technical, commercial, and project requirements Develop control strategies and supporting documentation to define project-specific programming requirements Create and manage electrical documentation, including control philosophies, design specifications, load schedules, and wiring schematics Provide technical support including field service, commissioning, operator training, and warranty support Maintain engineering records for drawings and associated data for future reference Ensure timely submission of en

- **Id**: 1387515
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ecolab-automation-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Plano, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-27T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T20:35:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 111
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5598
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Education assistance, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Water Utilities, Chemical Manufacturing, Sterilization & Infection Control

## Company

- **Id**: 1754712
- **Name**: Ecolab
- **Domain**: ecolab.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ecolab-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 157
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.732
- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 130000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 130000

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no
- **.NET** — Optional: yes
- **C#** — Optional: yes
- **PID Control** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Visual Basic** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 110

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-28T10:49:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 20 · green card filings: 6; Filings 12m: 20

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.212
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 111
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, evergreen, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 130000
- **Is top pay**: no

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