Structural Designer - Heavy Industrial Equipment

Location

Addison, TX

Wage

$36 – $40.5/hr

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Posted on October 4, 2026

Job Description

Overview

A growing global manufacturer of engineered environmental and industrial equipment is seeking a Structural Designer for custom projects supporting industrial air and emissions-control systems. The role involves creating 3D models, fabrication drawings, and material take-offs for heavy industrial equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Create detailed 3D models, fabrication drawings, and material take-offs for heavy industrial equipment, structural supports, and ducting systems.
  • Design and detail hot exhaust and flue-gas ducting components, including casings, transitions, and structural platework.
  • Detail structural members and their connections, including beams, columns, braces, plates, and welded or bolted joints.
  • Develop drawings for customer review, material procurement, and fabrication.
  • Coordinate layouts and interfaces with equipment such as SCR reactors, baghouses, ESPs, dampers, and expansion joints.
  • Incorporate requirements for mechanical loading, operating temperatures, and thermal expansion with guidance from engineers and senior designers.
  • Review project specifications and design inputs, identifying missing information, conflicts, or discrepancies.
  • Perform geometric and material calculations, including lengths, areas, volumes, weights, and angles.
  • Revise models and drawings based on engineering reviews, customer comments, and fabrication feedback.
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Project Management, Sales, and fabrication teams throughout project execution.
  • Maintain accurate drawings, revisions, and project files in accordance with document-control procedures.

Requirements

  • An associate’s degree in Computer-Aided Design, Drafting, Engineering Technology, or a related discipline.
  • 3+ years of industrial structural or mechanical design experience.
  • Hands-on Autodesk Inventor experience creating 3D assemblies and fabrication-ready drawings.
  • Experience designing or detailing heavy industrial equipment, structural steel frames, industrial ductwork, plate structures, or similar fabricated assemblies.
  • An understanding of how typical structural members connect, including beam-to-column or beam-to-beam connections.
  • The ability to accurately perform geometric and material-quantity calculations.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Travel: Minimal, estimated at no more than 5%.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
PTO

How this job compares in Addison, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 23% above the $31/hr median for structural welder jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $27–$35/hr middle band drawn from 23 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Addison, TX

Addison, TX currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,256 other active welding openings from 561 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Addison, or widen the search to Texas.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (34), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (23). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $36/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and Midlothian at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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