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 catherine.guillory@distran.com or text to 318-929-6273.
For open positions at the Pineville and Eunice plants, the contact is: Jacob David: Email to [email protected] or call at 318-767-5654 .
COMPETENCIES:
Customer Focus
Decision Quality
Business Insight
Drives Results
Collaborates
Communicates Effectively
Courage
Instills Trust
Manages Ambiguity
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Apply sound engineering judgment to the development and validation of intelligent Autodesk Inventor models for transmission and substation structures.
Develop engineering solutions that improve design consistency, accuracy, efficiency, standardization, and downstream usability.
Translate engineering calculations, design standards, customer requirements, and manufacturing needs into structured model parameters, rules, and reusable design content.
Promote model-based engineering practices that reduce repetitive work and unnecessary engineering variation.
Ensure automated models and engineering outputs meet customer, industry, company, engineering, and manufacturing requirements.
Collaborate effectively across Engineering, Detailing, Operations, Manufacturing, ERP/MES, Data, and software development teams.
Maintain a strong focus on data quality and ensure engineering-generated information is accurate, trusted, and usable by downstream systems and teams.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement through engineering automation, standardization, reusable content, and improved design processes.
Clearly document engineering standards, assumptions, design logic, validation requirements, and approved practices.
Support the long-term development and adoption of engineering automation, standards governance, and model-based engineering practices.
Develop, configure, and validate intelligent Autodesk Inventor models for transmission and substation structures.
Create configurable assemblies, reusable templates, and parameter-driven engineering design tools.
Translate engineering calculations, design standards, customer requirements, and design intent into model parameters, rules, templates, and structured automation logic.
Support iLogic, iProperties, and other Autodesk Inventor automation methods in partnership with the Inventor Developer.
Validate automated model outputs against engineering requirements, customer expectations, detailing requirements, and manufacturing needs.
Identify and implement opportunities to reduce repetitive modeling, detailing, BOM, and BOO creation efforts.
Support the expansion of automated and model-based engineering workflows across standard and semi-standard structure families.
Develop and maintain engineering template libraries in alignment with approved engineering and design standards.
Support the development of governed standard parts, assemblies, templates, and approved design patterns.
Help determine which components, assemblies, and design elements should be standard, configurable, or job-specific.
Ensure models, templates, and reusable engineering content comply with applicable customer, industry, company, and manufacturing requirements.
Define and support engineering metadata requirements for drawings, BOMs, BOOs, Epicor, MES, procurement, manufacturing, analytics, and future AI-enabled tools.
Ensure automated models generate accurate and usable information for downstream processes and systems.
Validate that model outputs support manufacturing consumption, material requirements, operational requirements, and drawing clarity.
Support model outputs that can be consumed by downstream systems with minimal manual re-entry, interpretation, or correction.
Develop, configure, and validate intelligent Autodesk Inventor models for transmission and substation structures.
Create configurable assemblies, reusable templates, and parameter-driven engineering design tools.
Translate engineering calculations, design standards, customer requirements, and design intent into model parameters, rules, templates, and structured automation logic.
Support iLogic, iProperties, and other Autodesk Inventor automation methods in partnership with the Inventor Developer.
Validate automated model outputs against engineering requirements, customer expectations, detailing requirements, and manufacturing needs.
Identify and implement opportunities to reduce repetitive modeling, detailing, BOM, and BOO creation efforts.
Support the expansion of automated and model-based engineering workflows across standard and semi-standard structure families.
Develop and maintain engineering template libraries in alignment with approved engineering and design standards.
Support the development of governed standard parts, assemblies, templates, and approved design patterns.
Help determine which components, assemblies, and design elements should be standard, configurable, or job-specific.
Ensure models, templates, and reusable engineering content comply with applicable customer, industry, company, and manufacturing requirements.
Define and support engineering metadata requirements for drawings, BOMs, BOOs, Epicor, MES, procurement, manufacturing, analytics, and future AI-enabled tools.
Ensure automated models generate accurate and usable information for downstream processes and systems.
Validate that model outputs support manufacturing consumption, material requirements, operational requirements, and drawing clarity.
Support model outputs that can be consumed by downstream systems with minimal manual re-entry, interpretation, or correction.
Troubleshoot model behavior and automated outputs and recommend improvements to engineering logic, templates, standards, and workflows.
REQUIREMENTS FOR SAFETY SPECIALIST:
Bachelor’s degree in a safety related discipline preferred.
At least three years of experience in industrial safety and industrial hygiene required.
Knowledge of state, federal, and local industrial health and safety regulations and programs (OSHA, PPE, etc.)
Certified Safety Professional (CSP) preferred.
Epicor experience preferred.
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access required.
At least 3-5 year of leadership position experience required.
Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook is required.
Strong leadership and communication skills required.
Regular, reliable attendance is required.
No documented disciplinary actions for at least 12 months.
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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