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Operations Engineering Management

Kinston, North Carolina Job ID 2025-15353 Category Engineering Post Date Sep. 11, 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.

Location: Kinston, NC


Key Accountabilities:

  • Disciplinary and functional leadership including accountability for work attendance for reporting headcount.
  • Accountable for guiding, motivating and developing  staff and implementation of a high performance culture in the sphere of impact
  • Planning, agreement, monitoring and reporting of required resources to accomplish the delegated work (e.g. budget(s), services, equipment) for the area of responsibility in cooperation with the manager
  • Continuous improvement of work processes in the designated area, in line with broader organizational goals and objectives
  • Risk management activities for the area of responsibility, especially the regular and exhaustive identification, evaluation, mitigation and reporting of risks
  • Accomplishment of business activities in the area of responsibility in line with all relevant internal and external regulations legislation and escalation of occurring compliance issues to the superior or to higher level functional managers
  • Achievement of short term business objectives in the designated area delivering active performance management and decision making
  • Drive towards the implementation of a world-class safety culture across the organisation and ensure that environmental considerations are always at the forefront in progressing towards the ambition of sustainability in our sector
  • Manage a team of engineers and planners with diverse skill sets
  • Responsible for executing effective incorporation of change into a production environment while maintaining impeccable configuration control
  • Lead the development of new processes and changes in existing processes
  • Improve product quality and enable on takt production
  • Engage in whether the product can be produced, the quality of the product and the related processes
  • Manage the schedule of complex, competing priorities and report on realization to senior management
  • Coach and develop the team through effective mentoring

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Composites, Materials, Engineering Technology, or other related course of study
  • 5-8 Years Experience
  • Strong experience in a leadership/management role leading engineers
  • Experience in composite fabrication/manufacturing
  • Experience working with international internal and external customers
  • Lean manufacturing expertise

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Experience in Aerospace Manufacturing
  • Excellent Customer Relationship Management Skills
  • Demonstrated ability to work with demanding and difficult customers with conflicting priorities within a fast-paced challenging environment
  • Experience working with multiple cross functional groups (Quality, Assembly, Procurement, Supply Chain, Machining, etc.)

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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  • 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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