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.

• Implementing Vision and Values:
  Keeps the organization’s vision and values at the forefront of the associate decision making and action.
• Safety Orientation:
  Is aware of conditions that affect employee safety, takes responsible action, and promotes safety throughout the organization.
• Customer Focus:
  Proactively works to determine the needs of the internal / external customers and provide solutions; actively focuses on providing high quality service to internal / external customers while addressing the organization’s mission / vision / goals / policies; maintains clear communication regarding mutual expectation.
• Contributing to Team Success:
  Works cooperatively with others; is agreeable and team oriented; demonstrates a willingness to put aside personal differences for the benefit of the group as a whole.
• Quality Orientation:
  Is aware of quality issues and actively makes suggestions for improvement of product or processes; knows how personal contribution affects overall product and process quality; understands the company’s quality objectives and how they relate to the company’s objectives.
• Work Ethic:
  Maintains and promotes social, ethical, and organizational norms in conducting internal and external business activities.
• Continuous and Applied Learning:
  Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skills on the job and leaning through their application; comprehends new job related information in a timely manner and correctly recalls and applies that information.
• Productivity Orientation:
  Takes appropriate actions to satisfy work quotas (e.g. production, assignments, projects, etc.)

• Develop and validate intelligent Autodesk Inventor models for transmission and substation structures.
• Create configurable assemblies, reusable templates, and parameter-drivendesigntools.
• Translate engineering calculations,designstandards, 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.

• Support the development of governed standard parts, assemblies, anddesignpatterns.
• 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…