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 companys core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the worlds premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.

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:

• 6-9 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
• Functional experience in First Article Inspection (FAI) utilizing Net-Inspect
• Experience with SAP/MES systems and proficiency in Smartsheets and Tableau software platforms

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.