Manufacturing Planner Job at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities:

• Implements fabrication, assembly, or installation manufacturing plans by coordinating with suppliers, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
• Knowledge to develop tooling, interchangeability, replacement, and functional test plans.
• Using the established manufacturing process flow, defines sequences of events, develops text and graphics work instructions, manufacturing datasets, tooling requirements, and manufacturing bills of material.
• Communicating with engineering teams to influence and clarify design concepts.
• Coordinates change incorporation, optimizes processes, addresses producibility issues, production and postproduction problems. Demonstrates configuration control of the hardware within the manufacturing build plan.
• Ability to apply process knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Composite non-metallic, Electrical/Electronics, Machining, Sheet metal, Systems and Structures.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2-4 years of Manufacturing Engineering/planning experience.
• Strong to excellent SAP knowledge
• Strong to excellent general computing skills
• Self-starter who can eventually take a project from start to finish and collaborate with all disciplines to accomplish a goal.
• High School Diploma or GED

Preferred Qualifications:

• Computer skills: MS Office suite, SAP, Catia
• Experience with manufacturing engineering
• Aircraft knowledge and manufacturing experience
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings, PLs and Specifications
• Experience with Catia programs
• Bachelors degree is highly preferred but not required.

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. This information is provided for general awareness; for more details, contact Spirit AeroSystems or refer to official state resources.