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Maintenance Equipment Technician

Wichita, Kansas Job ID 2025-15135 Category Manufacturing - Hourly Post Date Aug. 06, 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.

Align with applicable manufacturers, industry, regulatory standards, shop practices and procedures; diagnose, service, maintain and repair all automotive, motive equipment; perform all duties of lubrication on plant equipment; service and maintain all portable tools as required; and diagnose, service, maintain, and repair all fleet equipment including but not limited to,  electrical, diesel, gas and LP powered  forklift's, tugs and tow tractors, manlifts, boom lifts, scissor lifts, and shop equipment as needed.

  • Determine parts and material requirements and perform repairs as-required to support timely production and delivery of quality products-to the customer.
  • Duties include Perform root cause analysis in support-of reliability processes and collaborate with vendors, engineering, team-leader, customer, other crafts, and management to solve motive equipment problems and develop corrective action.
  • Enter and retrieve data from Maximo and order parts required to accomplish the tasks.
  • Coordinate with other organizations and specialties to provide reliability failure analysis and problem resolution for assets and systems.
  • Train other employees in the same job classification.
  • Use necessary automotive, motive equipment and mobile crane diagnostic, repair tools such as but not limited to, computer scanners, meters, load testers, pressure testers, precision tools, balancers, etc. to accomplish all equipment repairs.
  • Diagnose, service, maintain and repair all motive equipment such as but not limited to, boom lifts, scissor lifts, forklifts, tugs, tractors, dragsters, and mobile cranes as needed.

Preferred Skills

  • Must have own hand tools. Hand wrenches metric and standard. Sockets, screwdrivers, pry bars, hammers, etc. 
  • Minimum 2 years automotive or industrial equipment repair experience
  • Technical Certificate from accredited automotive technical school
  • Forklift repair experience
  • Automotive repair experience
  • Electrically powered vehicle repair experience

Requirements

  • All applicants must be willing and able to work any shift.
  • All Candidates must pass the WorkKeys Assessment (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.

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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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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