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Quality Assurance Compliance

Kinston, North Carolina Job ID 2025-14726 Category Quality 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.

Quality consists of jobs which develop and administer the quality system that ensures and manages the integrity of company products and services.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Perform root cause analyses. Recommends and supports the implementation of corrective actions that are necessary to reduce or eliminate nonconformance to design specifications.
  • Performs Failure Modes, Effects Analysis, and develops Control Plans to mitigate process risk.
  • Performs investigation from the shop floor to the engineering lab to identify and eradicate defects from the product using numerous Root Cause Analysis Tools.
  • Interfaces with company employees, suppliers, customers, and regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with contractual, company, and regulatory requirements.
  • Has capability to understand the build process on the manufacturing line, engineering requirements on the drawing, planning operational requirements, and then able to correlate the three to ensure that they are inline or identify gaps.
  • Has the capability to work with the team and develop PFMEAs and control Plan.
  • 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 and assembly operations, etc.).
  • Ability to perform design reviews to ensure that quality is engineered into the product and tool.
  • 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.

Requirements:

  • At least 7 years of experience in a quality engineering, manufacturing environment or manufacturing industry required

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred
  • Aerospace and/or Automotive industry experience preferred

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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