Spirit Defense - Associate Operations Support Specialist
About The Position
This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, within Spirit’s Defense Business Unit (Spirit Defense), an independent supplier to the defense and space marketplace. Spirit Defense provides engineering, rapid prototyping, capabilities, technologies, and support for customer missions. The Associate Operations Support Specialist serves as an operations process expert, providing guidance on build plans, including methods, techniques, work sequence, tooling plans, and layouts. The role applies production engineering principles and practices associated with quality, industrial, and manufacturing engineering, coordinating with Engineering, management, lean, tooling, operations, and other support disciplines. It also develops labor-hour estimates, tooling and build concepts for bid proposals, and quality- and cost-effective production methods, standards, and systems. The specialist keeps current with industry practices, contributes to long-range technical research, and guides less-experienced manufacturing support staff. This is a union-represented position. The role requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Secret security clearance and Special Program Access; U.S. citizenship is required for the government clearance. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance is required after starting. The employer will not sponsor employment visas. The workplace is drug free, and post-offer applicants and employees may be subject to testing under company policies. The summary pay range is $59,450–$91,150. Eligible employees may enroll in benefit programs, which generally include health insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time-away programs. Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities are also part of the Total Rewards package. Program availability may vary by eligibility, location, hire date, and collective bargaining agreements. Employees joining the Kansas team may be eligible for a $5,000 Kansas aviation tax credit for up to five years.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in manufacturing, continuous improvement, and manufacturing support, or a bachelor's degree with at least 2 years of such experience.
- Ability to obtain a U.S. Secret Security Clearance and Special Program Access; U.S. citizenship is required for government clearance.
- Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance; an interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance is required after starting.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree.
- SAP experience.
- Manufacturing or shop-floor experience.
- Lean and Six Sigma experience.
- Understanding of the RCCA process and ability to prepare a business case and process improvements.
- Strong communication skills, including aligning senior leadership on strategic objectives and coaching frontline teams to execute them.
- Continuous improvement experience.
- Strong listening skills and willingness to learn.
- High-level understanding of reading and interpreting assembly-related drawings and blueprints.
- Ability to work cross-functionally.
- Strong analytical and data-management skills, with proficiency in Excel, Tableau, and Smartsheet.
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance on build plans, including methods, techniques, sequence of steps, tooling plans, and layouts.
- Keep up with industry best practices and implement them within operations.
- Develop labor-hour estimates, tooling concepts, and build concepts for new bid proposals.
- Provide expertise in production engineering disciplines.
- Apply quality, industrial, and manufacturing engineering principles and practices, coordinating with other support disciplines and core functions as required.
- Coordinate with Engineering, management, lean, tooling, and operations teams.
- Develop quality- and cost-effective production methods, standards, and systems by applying production engineering principles.
- Lead and participate in long-range technical research on proposed projects.
- Provide guidance to less-experienced manufacturing support staff.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
- Eligible employees may enroll in health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and programs providing paid and unpaid time away from work.
- Potential eligibility for a $5,000 Kansas aviation tax credit for up to five years for employees joining the Kansas team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
