Overview

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.

Responsibilities

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, Machining, Sheet metal, Systems and Structures.

This job opportunity is based on career level understanding of Manufacturing Engineering technical standards, principles, theories, and techniques and will include the following, but not limited to:

• Increasing Quality output of both Manufacturing Engineering and Manufacturing personnel.
• Independently determines and develops approaches to solutions.
• Receives general direction for work that is reviewed at specific intervals for adequacy in meeting objectives.
• Represents the organization by providing solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific projects.
• Clarification, enhancement of existing build plans to promote standardization, and ease of understanding.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and 3D models.
• Process Improvement utilizing intermediate to advanced Lean
• Manufacturing, Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) and Six Sigma processes and techniques.
• Frequent interaction with internal personnel in the manufacturing environment and with inter-organizational personnel and external customers and auditors.
• Presenting and promoting improvement to management and customers at all levels.
• Excellent project management skills including the cost of the project.
• The ability to achieve full results, where failure to obtain results, reaching erroneous decisions or making recommendations would typically result in serious program delays and considerable expenditure of resources.
• The ideal candidate will be a self-starting individual that works independently with minimal general supervision.

Qualifications

Required Skills: 

• 5 - 8 years experience in a manufacturing engineering capacity.
• Ability to apply knowledge in one or more of the following areas;
• Structural Assembly planning
• Tool Planning
• Composite non-metallic
• Machining
• Sheet metal
• Systems and/or Structures

Required Education:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Technology
• Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) accreditation standard is required

Preferred Experience:

• 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.