Job Description

Overview

We are a manufacturer of engineered industrial equipment based in Dallas, Texas, seeking a Structural Designer for custom projects supporting industrial air and emissions-control systems. The role involves detailing skid frames and connections, designing duct casings, and coordinating with adjacent 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
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Minimal travel, estimated at no more than 5%.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
PTO

How this job compares in Addison, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $38/hr median for structural welder jobs across Texas, whose middle half runs $28–$45/hr across 14 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 43% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Addison, TX

Addison, TX currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,149 other active welding openings from 516 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.

Jobot currently has 3 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (34), Zachry Group (28), and Worley (19). 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 Arlington at $39/hr, Dallas at $36/hr, and Pasadena at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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