Mid-Level Manufacturing Planner

Spirit AeroSystems • Tulsa, OK

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About The Position

This Mid-Level Manufacturing Planner role is with Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units. Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including fuselages, pylons, nacelles, and wing components, using composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

The planner implements fabrication, assembly, and installation manufacturing plans in coordination with suppliers, engineering, and manufacturing teams. The role establishes manufacturing sequences and develops work instructions, manufacturing datasets, tooling requirements, and manufacturing bills of material. It also supports configuration control, design clarification, change incorporation, process optimization, and resolution of producibility and production issues. The position requires working in the manufacturing environment and applying process knowledge in areas such as composites, machining, sheet metal, or structures.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5–9 years of manufacturing engineering or planning experience.
• Strong to excellent SAP knowledge.
• Strong to excellent general computing skills.
• Self-starter able to take a project from start to finish and willing to work with all disciplines to accomplish a goal.
• Some experience with CATIA V5, SAP, Right Hemisphere, or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• Computer skills in the MS Office suite, SAP, and CATIA.
• Experience with manufacturing engineering.
• Aircraft knowledge and manufacturing experience.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings, PLs, and specifications.
• Experience with CATIA programs.
• Bachelor’s degree is highly preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Implement fabrication, assembly, or installation manufacturing plans by coordinating with suppliers, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
• Demonstrate configuration control of hardware within the manufacturing build plan.
• Apply principles, concepts, practices, and standards of industry practices.
• Develop tooling, interchangeability, replacement, and functional test plans.
• Use established manufacturing process flows to define event sequences and develop text and graphics work instructions, manufacturing datasets, tooling requirements, and manufacturing bills of material.
• Communicate with engineering teams to influence and clarify design concepts.
• Coordinate change incorporation, optimize processes, address producibility issues, and resolve production and post-production problems.
• Coordinate with a variety of other organizations.
• Apply process knowledge in one or more areas: composite non-metallic, machining, sheet metal, or structures.
• Work in the manufacturing environment.

Benefits

• 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 programs providing paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed