Automation Design Engineer: Inventor & Standards

Crestoperations; Pineville (LA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Crest Industries seeks a Design Automation Engineer at the Pineville Plant to lead the development of scalable digital engineering workflows using Autodesk Inventor and related tools. The role bridges Engineering, Design, Operations, CAD platform development, ERP/MES teams, and future automation initiatives.

You will develop and validate intelligent Inventor models, configurable assemblies, and templates, and translate requirements into automation rules while ensuring data quality for downstream

Qualifications

• 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.

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 and manufacturing needs.
• Support the expansion of model-based engineering workflows across standard and semi-standard structure families.

Skills

Engineering background

Structural steel design

Autodesk Inventor

Model parameterization

Fabrication impact

Analytical skills

Cross-functional communication

Automation interest

Tools

Autodesk Inventor

Autodesk Vault

Job description

Crest Industries seeks a Design Automation Engineer at the Pineville Plant to lead the development of scalable digital engineering workflows using Autodesk Inventor and related tools. The role bridges Engineering, Design, Operations, CAD platform development, ERP/MES teams, and future automation initiatives.

You will develop and validate intelligent Inventor models, configurable assemblies, and templates, and translate requirements into automation rules while ensuring data quality for downstream