Manufacturing Technology

Spirit AeroSystems designs and builds aerostructures for both commercial and defense customers. With headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Malaysia. The company's core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the world's premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.

Key Accountabilities:

• Coordinates with engineering, manufacturing, and supply teams to develop, guide and implement manufacturing and tooling plans.
• Ensures the identification and implementation of advanced manufacturing technologies and improves manufacturing processes in support of the type design.
• Uses process engineering principles, established manufacturing principles, plans and techniques to define sequencing of manufacturing.
• Develops, establishes, and guides requirements for assembly, tooling simulations, manufacturing processes and configuration control.
• Communicates with manufacturing and engineering teams to influence and clarify engineering and facilities design concepts to increase manufacturability, improve production flow and optimize processes.
• Has the ability to demonstrate configuration control of the hardware, within the manufacturing build plan.
• Ability to apply knowledge in one or more of the following areas; Composite non- metallic, Electrical/Electronics, Machining, Sheet metal, Systems and Structures.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Technology with 0-1 year of experience in a manufacturing engineering capacity
• Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) accreditation standard is required
• Ability to apply knowledge in one or more of the following areas;
  
  • Structural Assembly planning
    
  • Tool Planning
    
  • Composite non-metallic
    
  • Electrical/Electronics
    
  • Machining
    
  • Sheet metal
    
  • Systems and/or Structures

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAP
  
• Creating and maintaining manufacturing plans
  
• CATIA V5
  
• SAP Visual Enterprise (formerly Right Hemisphere)
  
• Lean Manufacturing, Root Cause Corrective Action and/or Six Sigma
  
• Tool Index Planning
  
• Understanding of the application of time standards
  
• Enovia V6
  
• Enovia 3dexperience
  
• Six Sigma
  
• Project Management
  
• Automation Technology
  
• Liaison support
  
• Command Media Documentation
  
• Training Material Creation and execution

Spirit AeroSystems is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law.

Kansas Tax Credit: Join Spirit AeroSystems' Kansas team and you may be eligible for a $5,000 state of Kansas Aviation tax credit for up to five years. Click here for more information on the tax credit.