Spirit Defense - Integrated Product Team Specialist (Associate, Mid-Level or Experienced)

Spirit AeroSystems • Wichita, KS

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About The Position

This role is with Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, in Spirit’s Defense Business Unit. Spirit Defense supplies the defense and space marketplace with engineering, rapid prototyping, technologies, and customer support. The company is hiring at Associate, Mid-Level, and Experienced levels.

The Integrated Product Team Specialist enables program-level business decisions by coordinating positional and senior functional leaders, aligning plans and resources with program objectives, and managing integrated schedules, budgets, and performance across cross-functional teams. The work may span equipment design, build, delivery, installation, qualification, production readiness, and associated supplier integration and qualification activities.

The specialist supports program goals by promoting accountability, ensuring technical, cost, schedule, quality, capacity, and throughput requirements are met, managing change control and configuration, and identifying and mitigating program risks. The role also coordinates issue resolution and improvement priorities, communicates program status and decision needs to executive leadership, supports proposals and estimating, and facilitates meetings while recording decisions and actions.

Requirements

• Associate level: 2 or more years working on cross-functional teams in aerospace or defense programs.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Secret Security Clearance and Special Program Access; U.S. citizenship is required by the U.S. Government.
• Experience managing project schedules, costs, risks, technical performance, and quality.
• Experience with change control, requirements management, supplier integration, and qualification.

Nice To Haves

• Mid-Level (Level 3): 5 or more years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Senior (Level 4): 9 or more years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Currently holds a Secret-level DoD clearance.
• Experience leading multiple complex aerospace projects and balancing long-term programs with near-term priorities.
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning tools such as SAP, S4HANA, or MES.
• Experience with Computer Aided Drafting tools such as NX, Teamcenter Visualization, Teamcenter Product Lifecycle Management, CATIA, or other tools.
• Strong executive communication, customer relationship management, and leadership through influence.
• Business acumen and experience partnering with Finance to track performance against plan.
• Knowledge of manufacturing, industrial engineering, and composite and aluminum processes.
• Experience with root cause analysis, 8D root cause corrective action methodologies, Lean/Six Sigma, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Communicate, coordinate, facilitate, and enable positional and senior functional leaders to make effective program-level business decisions.
• Align plans, resources, and accountability with program objectives.
• Manage integrated schedules, budgets, and performance across cross-functional activities, potentially including equipment design, build, delivery, installation, qualification, and production readiness.
• Create a culture of accountability to enable leadership success and meet business goals and objectives.
• Ensure deliverables meet technical, cost, schedule, quality, capacity, and throughput requirements.
• Oversee supplier integration, statements of work, materials and process qualification, first-part qualification, verification, validation, and certification.
• Identify and mitigate program-level risks, including risks involving equipment and facilities readiness, operational performance, technical matters, and schedule.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and external suppliers to resolve issues, prioritize improvements, and mitigate risks.
• Manage change control, requirements, baselines, and configuration; align Integrated Product Team decisions with program governance.
• Review, elevate, and present program status, risks, and decision needs to executive leadership; document decisions and track actions.
• Support proposals, estimating, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead discussions on prioritizing improvement activities according to standard guidelines.
• Integrate projects to provide appropriate visibility and accountability.
• Facilitate meetings, including capturing actions, decisions, and meeting minutes.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Eligible employees may enroll in benefit programs generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Eligible employees joining Spirit AeroSystems’ Kansas team may qualify for a $5,000 Kansas aviation tax credit for up to five years.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level