DIS-TRAN Steel Internal Transfer Portal - Design Automation Engineer (Internal Only)

Job Description

Job Description

Come join our team at DIS-TRAN Steel!

Our people – not our machinery - are our biggest assets. DIS-TRAN Steel’s leadership team lives by our company values, modeling our culture of respect and integrity each day. We're a team that likes to have fun, but we also know how to get stuff done.

DIS-TRAN Steel is looking to add a Design Automation Engineer to join the team at the Pineville Plant. 

The Design Automation Engineer supports the company’s Smart Engineering transformation by converting engineering knowledge, design standards, customer requirements, and manufacturing needs into scalable digital engineering workflows.

This role serves as a bridge between Engineering & Design, Operations, CAD platform development, ERP/MES teams, and future automation initiatives. The Design Automation Engineer will develop and validate intelligent Autodesk Inventor models, configurable assemblies, reusable templates, engineering metadata, and automation rules that improve design consistency, engineering productivity, manufacturing readiness, and downstream data quality.

The role is intended to complement the existing Developer position by adding dedicated engineering expertise to Inventor, Vault, standards catalog, metadata, and automation development efforts.

Crest Industries believes that when we have the right people in the right seats, we can achieve unlimited success. Our Transfer Portal is designed to empower our team members to learn, grow  and build their careers throughout our family of companies.  This form is for any employee in the Crest Family of Companies to apply for open positions at DIS-TRAN Steel.  

 

For open positions at the Corporate office the contact is :Catherine Guillory: email to  View email address on ziprecruiter.com or text to View phone number on ziprecruiter.com.

For open positions at the Pineville and Eunice plants, the contact is: Jacob David: Email to View email address on ziprecruiter.com or call at View phone number on ziprecruiter.com .

 

COMPETENCIES:

• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Business Insight
• Drives Results
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Courage
• Instills Trust
• Manages Ambiguity

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Engineering Automation

• Develop and validate intelligent Autodesk Inventor models for transmission and substation structures.
• Create configurable assemblies, reusable templates, and parameter-driven design tools.
• Translate engineering calculations, design standards, and customer requirements into structured automation rules.
• Support iLogic, iProperties, and other automation methods in partnership with the Inventor Developer.
• Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive modeling, detailing, BOM, and BOO creation effort.
• Validate automated model outputs against engineering requirements, customer expectations, and manufacturing needs.
• Support the expansion of model-based engineering workflows across standard and semi-standard structure families.

Standards and Catalog Development

• Support the development of governed standard parts, assemblies, and design patterns.
• Help define which components should be standard, configurable, or job-specific.
• Maintain engineering template libraries in alignment with approved standards.
• Ensure models and templates comply with customer, industry, company, and manufacturing requirements.
• Support the long-term standards catalog needed for model-based engineering and future design automation.
• Assist in classifying parts, assemblies, and reusable design content to improve searchability, reuse, and governance.
• Help reduce duplicate or inconsistent design practices by promoting approved standards and reusable engineering content.

Metadata and Downstream Readiness

• Define engineering metadata requirements needed for drawings, BOMs, BOOs, Epicor, MES, procurement, manufacturing, analytics, and future AI tools.
• Ensure automated models produce trusted, usable downstream information.
• Validate that model outputs support manufacturing consumption, material requirements, operational requirements, and drawing clarity.
• Work with Engineering, Operations, ERP, MES, and data teams to improve digital-thread readiness.
• Help establish data quality expectations for engineering-generated metadata.
• Support the development of model outputs that can be consumed by downstream systems with minimal manual re-entry or correction.

Governance and Continuous Improvement

• Participate in Engineering & Design Standards, Data & Integration, and Manufacturing Consumption governance discussions.
• Help define modeling standards, validation rules, exception processes, and release-readiness criteria.
• Use feedback from engineering, detailing, manufacturing, and quality to improve templates, standards, and automation logic.
• Support continuous improvement after the initial implementation by expanding automation, improving standards, and reducing engineering variation.
• Identify recurring engineering, modeling, BOM, BOO, or manufacturing-readiness issues that can be addressed through improved standards or automation.
• Support the long-term evolution of design automation, standards catalog governance, and model-based engineering practices.

REQUIREMENTS FOR DESIGN AUTOMATION ENGINEER:

Required Skills

• Engineering background in civil, mechanical, structural, or related discipline.
• Strong understanding of structural steel design and engineer-to-order products.
• Experience with Autodesk Inventor and complex parametric modeling.
• Ability to translate engineering requirements into model parameters, rules, and templates.
• Understanding of how engineering decisions affect detailing, fabrication, procurement, and manufacturing execution.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Interest in standardization, automation, model-based engineering, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work effectively with engineering, detailing, operations, software, ERP/MES, and data teams.
• Ability to document standards, assumptions, design logic, and validation criteria clearly.

Preferred Skills

• • Experience with Autodesk Vault.
  • Familiarity with iLogic, iProperties, Autodesk APIs, VB.NET, C#, Python, or similar tools.
  • Experience with design automation, configurable products, or rules-based engineering.
  • Knowledge of BOM, BOO, ERP, MES, and manufacturing data requirements.
  • Experience developing reusable templates, libraries, or standards-based design content.
  • Experience working in a structural steel, fabrication, utility, substation, transmission, or engineer-to-order environment.
  • PE license preferred but not required.

As strategists, operational experts, customer advocates and team players, we all believe in the power of our people. Explore how you can become a part of our team of strength and commitment that's  built to last!

DIS-TRAN Steel is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

DIS-TRAN Steel is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request information regarding reasonable accommodation, contact your Human Resource Business Partner.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).

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