Assembly Technician

About DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations

Come join our collaborative and innovative team at DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations! DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations has been an industry leader in the design and supply of high‑voltage, open‑air substations, and switchyards since 1965. Over a half‑century of building meaningful relationships with our customers and vendors boils down to one thing: people. We take pride in our collaborative approach where everything we do is designed to deliver the project the right way, your way.

Though we have grown over the years, and now offer new innovations like our Factory‑Built Substations, our age‑old commitment will never change: to take care of you like family.

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is looking to hire a Factory‑Built Substation (FBS) Technician to work from our Port of Alexandria Facility in our Assembly Department. An FBS Technician, as part of a team, assembles custom factory‑built substations. The FBS Technician is responsible for reading blueprints, erecting steel, assembling, and operating machinery and more. This individual must be able to perform duties with speed and accuracy to produce a quality product and keep a steady flow of products.

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

• Successfully apply simple hand tools such as wrenches, hammer, screwdriver, etc.
• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Position and align parts to form complete structures, following blueprints and layout specifications, using machinery, and hand tools.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and common power tools.
• Move parts safely into position, manually or with hoists or cranes.
• Keep the warehouse property in order, including but not limited to routine maintenance and grooming of grounds and facilities and regular and preventative maintenance on all company equipment and machinery.
• Attend safety meetings as requested or instructed.
• Operate all machinery and equipment, including the company’s forklift, safely at all times.
• Promote company goals.
• Work to display an excellent safety record.

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Read and understand measuring devices such as tape measurer, rules, and combination squares required.
• Perform simple shop math (add/subtract fractions, decimals, and whole numbers) required.
• Experience applying simple hand tools such as wrenches, hammer, screwdriver, etc. required.
• Experience working in a warehouse or manufacturing environment preferred.

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations 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 Packaged Substations 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.

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)