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Facilities - Carpenter / Painter

Tulsa, Oklahoma Job ID 2025-14925 Category Manufacturing - Repair and Maintenance Post Date Jun. 28, 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.

Key Accountabilities

  • Move and/or obtain correct parts, materials, and tools, as necessary within the employee's assignment as directed by management.
  • Use of all precision measuring instruments required to accomplish work assignments.
  • Capable of accessing and navigating electronic systems as required by the position program, and/or company. Company will provide training as required in a timely manner
  • Works safely and maintains a safe work environment adhering to established company safety requirements.
  • Train, coach and/or assist fellow employees as requested or required by the company.
  • Maintain and utilize required personal certifications and qualifications as directed by the company to perform job assignments.
  • Ensure equipment and tool certification occurs per procedure.
  • Report job handicaps such as: errors in parts, procedures, tools, sequences, etc.

Duties

  • Read and interpret blueprints, drawings manuals, specifications and job orders to determine material requirements and the methods and sequence of operations to perform maintenance carpentry and painting and/or the fabrication, assembly, packaging and loading of shipping containers.
  • Set up and operate hand and power woodworking equipment or tools to perform such operations as drilling, sawing, planning, joining, routing and sanding.
  • Assemble parts in accordance with furnished layouts, sketches, jig locations, or by following verbal instructions.
  • Build sheds, storage bins, scaffolding, platforms, and floors,shelves, partitions and benches and perform finish carpentry on such items as office doors, windows, wooden furniture and equipment.
  • Install hardware such as hinges, locks, plates, knobs and casters to wooden items and structures.
  • Rework and repair office equipment, floors and window blinds,drafting tables, cabinets and other related items.
  • Fabricate, assemble and finish such office and shop equipment as frames, filing boxes, book stands, shelves and cardboard and wooden boxes, crates and shipping containers, including those where deviation from standard sizes and shapes may be required.
  • Hand and spray paint factory and office building, areas, equipment and furniture, rolling stock and equipment.
  • Mix, blend and match paint to proper color and consistency and when necessary set up scaffolding and rigging.
  • Apply prime and finish coats to office furniture, office interiors,heavy machinery, and power and lift trucks, jigs, holding fixtures and dollies. Hand rub down and mirror finish office furniture.
  • Hang wallpaper, pictures, mount maps on walls and paint original guidelines that define area limits, walks and roadways.
  • Block, tie down, brace, pad, and strap or otherwise secure contents in freight carriers, cars or trucks.
  • Cut and apply stencils and exterior markings.
  • Record carpentry, painting and crating and packing data and statistics manually or with the aid of a computer or computer-based system.

Requirements

  • 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.

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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Your Benefits

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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These programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other conditions, which may differ for employees of certain subsidiaries or business units, or union-represented employees depending on bargaining agreement terms. If this information conflicts with the program documents, the latter shall control. This material is informational only.

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