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Wichita, Kansas Job ID 2025-14572 Category Engineering Post Date Jun. 27, 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:

  • Position will be primarily responsible for headcount and resource planning for Fabrication Operations. This includes planning for 1,800+ direct touch hourly employees, as well as several hundred indirect hourly, and management type employees. Reports and plans will be provided to 13 senior managers, 4 directors, and a VP for Fabrication.
  • Roles and responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to, monitoring and comparing demand, monitoring and applying factors to demand around emergent issues and quality, interfacing with senior leadership and executive leadership on headcount planning and efficiency planning.
  • Tools for the role will include skills in Access, Excel, SAP, etc. Advanced level Excel skills strongly preferred, including modeling and forecasting abilities. Modeling requirements to include existing dependent demand from SAP, as well as potential independent demand from various outside sources.
  • Role will support demand management team and decision support for the Fabrication Organization.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an ABET accredited engineering program.
  • 1-2 years of related experience in Industrial Engineering
  • Knowledge of IE Tools used in production including capacity analysis, theory of constraints, waste elimination, production improvements
  • Experience leading projects and project teams with a continuous improvement focus
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate across all levels of leadership
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in aerospace manufacturing environment
  • Project Management

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.

Kansas Tax Credit: Join Spirit AeroSystems’ Kansas team and you may be eligible for a $5,000 state of Kansas Aviation tax credit for up to five years. Click here for more information on the tax credit.

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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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