This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units (“Spirit Commercial”). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, one of Boeing’s three business units and the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. Spirit Commercial’s core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

LOCATION: Wichita, KS

Key Accountabilities:

• Apply knowledge of quality policies and practices to develop, document, and maintain quality systems and operating procedures.
• Develop and administer directives, policies, processes and procedures to ensure compliance with contractual, company, and regulatory requirements to assure quality system compliance.
• Apply knowledge of quality policies and governmental regulations to develop and administer long-range customer inspection plans, acting as agent/designee for customer, to meet contractual and other requirements.
• Ability to plan and coordinate improvements in manufacturing (e.g. hardware and tool acceptance, variability reduction, developing key suppliers, and assembly operations, etc.).
• Ability to perform design reviews to ensure that quality is engineered into the product and tool. Apply knowledge of engineering (e.g. manufacturing, tooling, quality, and statistics, etc.) to analyze requirements of contracts, drawings and specifications to develop plans for the application of quality disciplines to processes.
• Ability to perform configuration audits and reviews of products, tools, and processes. Ability to compile, measure and analyze process capability data, models to perform trend analyses and risk assessments.
• Skill in process improvement methodologies (i.e. root cause analysis) to plan and coordinate process improvements.
• Ability to ensure sequenced inspection control points, create and maintain inspection accountability systems.
• Ability to identify, evaluate, and implement preventative measures, corrective action, procedural changes, process improvements and present resultant findings.
• Provide education and coaching on the Quality Management System and Manufacturing Verification Process.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in a quality discipline, preferably in inspection, aerospace, or manufacturing
• Microsoft office skills intermediate in Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to read , understand, and communicate Policy, Procedures, and Specifications
• Interpret drawings and communicate details
• Time Management with ability to prioritize multiple assignments at one time
• Organizational skills pulling data from multiple sources and combining for daily tracking
• Communicate effectively within and outside of group
• Must be able to walk to and from different buildings and stand for multiple hours
• Inspection background with extensive knowledge with quality requirements
• High School Diploma or GED

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in defect identification, non-conformance data analysis, and thorough documentation skills
• Experience with SAP/MES systems and proficiency in Microsoft Applications and Tableau software platforms

Union:

This is a union-represented position.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as spanet and business considerations.

Summary Pay Range: $73,400 - $112,550

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.