# Controls & Automation Technician

This position supports the Maintenance Team and production facility. The Controls and Automation Technician will manage installation, programming, and maintenance of automation equipment throughout the plant, as well as support daily operations of the Maintenance Team. Essential Job and Duties - Help oversee maintenance processes and operations - Programming and maintenance for automation equipment in the plant - Monitoring and maintenance of production and filling equipment - Provide technical solutions when electrical or general control issues arise - Identify and perform preventative maintenance on equipment - Identify, manage, and control inventory and safety-stocks - Assign and complete plant maintenance and work order requests/repairs - Adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) - Follow Safe Quality Foods protocols - Assist in maintaining a clean and safe work environment Requirements - Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience required - Clearly demonstrates experience or affinity with programming, configuring, and deploying PLCs, VFDs, Industrial Control Systems and production-line process control. This is required. - Mechanic skills related to food manufacturin

- **Id**: 801414
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/iriceco-controls-automation-technician>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Philadelphia, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-06T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T18:33:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 220
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2251
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Grains, Cereals & Pasta, Food Ingredients

## Company

- **Id**: 679195
- **Name**: I. Rice & Company
- **Domain**: iriceco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/iriceco>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 62
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0.636
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 37000
- **Max usd**: 84000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 19516

## Technologies

- **GMP** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 220

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T07:59:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 3
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.095
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 220
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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