Material Support Technician

Spirit AeroSystems • Wichita, KS

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This role is at 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, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

The Material Support Technician performs a wide variety of material support activities to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products to customers. The work includes product conveyance and multitasking, operating material-handling equipment and support machinery, and clerical or record activities involving the flow of goods and parts. The company provides appropriate assistance in job training to enable employees to perform necessary functions. This is a union-represented position located in Wichita, Kansas. Employees must be willing and able to work any shift.

Requirements

• Must be willing and able to work any shift.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Basic math skills.

Nice To Haves

• Three years of warehousing experience.
• Two to five years of forklift or tug experience.

Responsibilities

• Receive, locate, issue, kit, prepare, and move materials—including raw materials, tools and tooling, parts, drawings, equipment, supplies, surplus property, and hazardous materials—to support production and other functions, including inventory record accuracy.
• Use power- or hand-operated tools and equipment; check hardware and tools for visible damage; route broken, worn, or obsolete items for disposition; open containers; identify contents’ weight and count; and verify incoming hardware quality.
• Operate information systems required for assigned tasks.
• Use appropriate equipment and devices to protect parts, equipment, and structures; load and unload air cargo as required.
• Check material-handling and associated equipment before and after operation, perform routine upkeep such as topping off fluids and checking or adjusting tire pressure, report major malfunctions and unsafe equipment, and refuel equipment.
• Verify part numbers, counts, and similar information for in-process material.
• Communicate with management, support functions, employees, vendors, and outside shipping personnel.
• Train employees in the same job classification when requested or required.
• Kit paints, lubricants, adhesives, solvents, and other materials or chemicals using weight scales, sight-lines, or a solvent bottle filling machine for repackaging.
• Order, receive, kit, maintain records for, store, check, issue, inventory, ship, and release goods.
• Record, post, file, coordinate changes, gather and furnish information, and release and route orders.
• Produce and maintain visibility; inspect and clear tool-box contents; issue hold-out notices as required.
• Clean and recondition respirators.
• Dress tool-grinder wheels and cut-off drills and reamers as required.
• Build containers; package and overpack goods; prepare associated documentation and system updates; and handle and package hazardous materials in accordance with applicable domestic and international rules, regulations, and mandates.
• Operate equipment to prepare parts and materials for appropriate disposition.
• Cut, seal, tag, measure, wrap, stencil, tape, and label material as required.
• Set up and operate a box-making machine to alter fiberboard materials or fillers and fabricate standard and nonstandard boxes; stamp and store boxes as required.
• Operate motive-power vehicles such as riders and stackers to move, position, and stage parts, equipment, tools, and materials.

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 programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work; availability depends on eligibility factors.
• Potential eligibility for a $5,000 Kansas aviation state tax credit for up to five years.

What This Job Offers

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