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Manufacturing Scheduler

Wichita, Kansas Job ID 2025-15226 Category Engineering - Production Post Date Sep. 02, 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.

  • Develops plans and schedules, evaluates costs and risks, and manages changes to program plans and schedules.
  • Establishes planning and scheduling systems, forecasts demand, develops strategic plans, conducts risk assessment and make/buy analyses, and analyzes new scheduling techniques for current programs and new business proposals.
  • Develops and directs production master schedules and time-phased manufacturing sequence plans.
  • Performs flow-time calculations, validates the schedule data with supervisors, and produces schedule status data for management.
  • Provides program schedule strategy and progress information to customers, suppliers, and company management.
  • Determines such requirements as rate and rotable tools necessary to support manufacturing build plans.
  • Interfaces with program management, fabrication management, assembly management, and tooling to ensure the accuracy of forecasting information and schedule feasibility.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 1-3 with a Master's Degree
  • Aerospace Industry knowledge helpful
  • Scheduling experience
  • Math skills and excellent communication abilities.
  • MS-Office specifically Excel required.
  • SAP Experience

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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