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Equipment Maintenance Technician

Kinston, North Carolina Job ID 2025-15108 Category Manufacturing - Repair and Maintenance Post Date Sep. 10, 2025
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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.

Summary:

This position will perform repairs and maintenance in plant or office facilities, or on machines and equipment.

  • Conducts routine, periodic, or special inspections to determine repair and maintenance work necessary to prevent break downs of facilities, machinery, and equipment.
  • Uses hand and power tools.
  • Tests, inspects, troubleshoots, and repairs machines and equipment.
  • Uses PLC, CNC along with blueprints, sketches, layouts, wiring diagrams, drawings, and specifications.
  • Move and place in correct position heavy equipment, real property and installed property in accordance with established methods.
  • Accomplish all necessary rigging.

The Company will provide appropriate assistance in job training to enable employees to perform all necessary job functions including the following:

  • Obtain and deliver material and equipment necessary to support plant maintenance and repair.
  • Work from diagrams, prints, specifications or verbal orders.
  • Use hand tools, powered tools and shop equipment.
  • Perform disassembly and assembly operations necessary to accomplish assignment.
  • Enter and retrieve data from the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and order parts required to accomplish the tasks (except as relates to inventory, store, record, issue and anyother duties related to material support technician.) In addition, each employee may be asked, on occasion, to complete other duties and responsibilities as required by Spirit leadership. Training and certification will be provided for the additional work when required

Requirements:

  • Experience troubleshooting electrical schematics.
  • Must be willing and able to work any shift
  • All Candidates must pass The WorkKeys Assessment (www.workkeys.com) or provide verification that they have passed The WorkKeys Assessment. Delay in completing your WorkKeys Assessment will result in a delay in your start date. You may complete your assessment in advance of an interview

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with industrial / automation maintenance.
  • Experience with CNC or PLC systems. 
  • Work experience with Allen-Bradley, Siemens, or Fanuc.

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.

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No matter where you are in life, our benefits help prepare you for the present and the future.

  • Generous company match to your 401(k).
  • Industry-leading tuition assistance program pays your institution directly.
  • Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
  • Up to $10,000 gift match when you support your favorite nonprofit organizations.
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