DIS-TRAN Steel Internal Transfer Portal - Design Automation Engineer; Internal

Design Automation Engineer

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.

For open positions at the Corporate office the contact is:
Catherine Guillory: email to c

For open positions at the Pineville and Eunice plants, the contact is:
Jacob David:
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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…