# Controls Engineer

Controls Engineer Controls & Automation | Peoria, IL (In-Person) | Full-Time Compensation: $90,000 - $135,000 Reports To: Controls and Automation Manager Every machine we build is different, and every one needs a control system that makes it run safely and reliably. If you’d rather design that system from the ground up than tweak someone else’s, keep reading. Rheo Engineering designs and builds powder handling equipment used to make life-saving medicine. As a Controls Engineer, you’ll design the controls for a wide variety of custom machines and mechanical systems - then see them built and tested right here in our Peoria facility. What You’ll Do Review user requirements with Project Managers from an electronics and controls standpoint Develop functional logic flowcharts and functional design specifications with the Engineering and R&D teams Source control system components and build a complete bill of materials for each machine Design pneumatic and hydraulic circuits and complete line diagrams Create relay ladder logic (wiring) diagrams Design control panels for equipment Write PLC code for equipment Test and debug control systems on the equipment you design Support the Product Man

- **Id**: 3978882
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rheo-engineering-controls-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Peoria, United States, Peoria, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T17:19:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T16:42:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4504
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Machinery

## Company

- **Id**: 4418227
- **Name**: Rheo Engineering
- **Domain**: rheoengineering.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rheoengineering>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 90000
- **Max**: 135000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 135000

## Technologies

- **AutoCAD** — Optional: no
- **Design Controls** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no
- **Outlook** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T19:06:43Z

## 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:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 135000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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