Steel Control Technician
- Location
- Alexandria, LA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid-level
- Education
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Listed
- 14 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Quality assurance (QA)
- Quality control (QC)
- Material kitting and staging
- Measuring devices (tape measure, rules, combination squares)
- Shop math (add/subtract fractions, decimals, whole numbers)
- Hand tools (wrenches, hammers, screwdrivers)
- Hand and power tools
- Forklift operation
- Hoist and crane operation
- Safety procedures
- Communication
- Collaboration
Also useful
- FBS assembly and PFB fabrication processes
- Blueprint and drawing reading
- Schematic reading
About the role
Come join our collaborative and innovative team at DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations!
Dis-tran
Packaged Substations has been an industry leader in the design and supply of high-voltage, open-air substations, and switchyards since 1965. Over a half-century of building meaningful relationships with our customers and vendors boils down to one thing: people. We take pride in our collaborative approach where everything we do is designed to deliver the project the right way, your way. Though we have grown over the years, and now offer new innovations like our Factory-Built
Substations, our age-old commitment will never change: to take care of you like family.
Dis-tran
Packaged Substations is looking to hire a Steel Control Technician to work from our Port of Alexandria at our Manufacturing Facility. The Steel Control Technician assists the Steel Control Lead and/or the team members with the QA, QC, and Kitting of materials between the Factory Built Substation (FBS) Assembly Teams and/or Welding Teams and Steel laydown region to ensure expedited production.
The Steel Control Technician works as part of a team to ensure that material flowing through the Steel Area is organized and processed in a timely manner. The Steel Control Technician performs skilled work such as checking critical dimensions on incoming steel, conducting quality checks on other various vendor products, reading blueprints/drawings, as well as operating the Company’s machinery.
Core Competencies
- Customer Focus
- Decision Quality
- Business Insight
- Drives Results
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Courage
- Instills Trust
- Manages Ambiguity
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Attends safety meetings as requested / instructed, follows all health and safety procedures.
- Positions and aligns material, staging and kitting material using machinery, per assembly bay ahead of need.
- Checks quality of incoming vendor products. Follows all established QA/QC processes and procedures.
- Maintains materials flowing through Steel laydown region.
- Supports requests from FBS Assembly Teams by coordinating with the Team Lead production schedules to KIT and stage material per assembly ahead of need.
- Follows established SOP's and processes.
- Communicates to the Team Lead what can be improved and offer solutions.
- Collaborate with the Assembly, Warehouse, and Project Teams concerning material receiving and shipping issues.
- Communicate to the Team Lead what is not going right.
- Recognizes, sets up, and operates hand and common power tools.
- Moves parts safely into position, manually or with hoists or cranes.
- Operates all machinery and equipment, including the Company's forklift.
- Keeps the warehouse property in order, including regular and preventative maintenance on Company equipment and machinery.
- Support all departments within the Logistics Team when needed.
Education and Experience
- High School diploma or equivalent required.
- Read and understand measuring devices such as tape measurer, rules, and combination squares required.
- Perform simple shop math (add/subtract fractions, decimals, and whole numbers) required.
- Experience applying simple hand tools such as wrenches, hammer, screwdriver etc. required.
- Knowledge of FBS Assembly and PFB fabrication processes and systems preferred.
- Ability to read and understand schematics and drawings preferred
- Referral Level: Trades and Skilled
- Not eligible for Enhanced Referral
- Not eligible for External Referral
Dis-tran
Packaged Substations is proud to be ISO-9001:2015 and ISN Certified.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Part of the CREST INDUSTRIES family of companies.
Packaged Substations is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
Packaged Substations is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request information regarding reasonable accommodation, contact your Human Resource Business Partner.
From Crest Industries's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 27, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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