# Senior Controls Engineer

As a Senior Controls Engineer you will design, program, install and maintain industrial control systems (PLC, SCADA, robotics) while enabling seamless integration of AI outputs for intelligent, adaptive automation on the factory floor. This role bridges operational technology (OT) and AI platforms to implement real-time decision-making, predictive maintenance triggers, and closed-loop process control. The Controls Engineer ensures system reliability, safety, and scalability as the company advances toward Industry 4.0 capabilities. Job Role: Analysis and synthesis --measures and interprets with exactness; ensures integrity of data; invites possibilities, improvements and scale based on data captured or from a data informed perspective Systems thinker --sees the business and its operation holistically; understands actions and reactions; considers multiple pathways of potential effect before decisions; thinks strategically about interventions with an eye toward scale Hands on -designs, programs, installs and maintains industrial control systems (PLC, SCADA, robotics) Optimizer --constantly challenging the organization to work smarter; supports others to ensure they have what they nee

- **Id**: 3569638
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/howmet-aerospace-senior-controls-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Whitehall, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T16:23:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T09:27:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 11
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3555
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Aerospace Manufacturing, Metals & Metallurgy, Automotive Components

## Company

- **Id**: 2065140
- **Name**: Howmet Aerospace
- **Domain**: howmet.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/howmet>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 55
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.745
- **Repost share**: 0.018
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 89000
- **Max usd**: 168000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 6333

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 11

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-31T15:17:50Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 10
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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