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Co-op Student Engineer

Wichita, Kansas Job ID 2025-15351 Category Engineering Post Date Sep. 17, 2025
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Flight begins at Spirit AeroSystems, where our products are taking off somewhere around the world every minute of every day.  We design and build large structural parts for the world’s premier commercial aircraft (think Boeing and Airbus), as well as top Defense and other cutting edge programs.

Spirit AeroSystems is a global company with a diverse work force spread across three continents.  Our headquarters is in Wichita, Kansas.  There is opportunity for you to be part of an innovative team in the growth industry of aerospace.

Work Location: Wichita, Kansas

Key Accountabilities:

  • Implement in-house developed computer vision technologies into the Spirit production system.
  • Support research, develop, and design automated manufacturing systems for large aerostructures.
  • Apply knowledge or robotic, numerical controls, PLC, microcontrollers, and motion control systems to develop next generation autonomous manufacturing processes.
  • Numerous R&D and production automation systems require expertise in automation controls and communications.
  • Manage aerospace engineering requirements in the design and development of manufacturing systems to adhere to industry and airframe requirements. 

Skills:

  • CAD Design(Catia), Rapid prototyping, computer programming (C++, python, ROS, OpenCV, 3D rendering)
  • Mathematical optimization and computational algorithms
  • Hands on fabrication, mechanical and electrical assembly
  • Electrical circuit design
  • Computer programming

Required Qualifications:

  • You must be enrolled full-time in a university engineering degree program.
  • You must be a current sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student in good academic standing.

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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