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Design Automation Engineer
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AT A GLANCE
DIS-TRAN SteelFull TimeRegular Full-Time
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- Process Improvement
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 s
About the role
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 seeking an Industrial Operations Specialist to help drive operational excellence across our manufacturing environment. This role is ideal for someone with a background in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Manufacturing, or Operations who enjoys solving problems, improving processes, leading projects, and working directly with production teams.
Rather than sitting behind a desk designing products, you'll be on the plant floor identifying opportunities, improving workflows, supporting operations, and helping our teams deliver results safely, efficiently, and with exceptional quality.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- • 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.
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