Quality Assurance Support 3

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

• Apply knowledge of quality policies and governmental regulations to develop and administer long-range customer inspection plans, acting as agent/designee for customer, to meet contractual and other requirements.
• Ability to plan and coordinate improvements in manufacturing (e.g., hardware and tool acceptance, variability reduction, developing key suppliers, and assembly operations, etc.).
• Ability to perform design reviews to ensure that quality is engineered into the product and tool.
• Apply knowledge of engineering (e.g., manufacturing, tooling, quality, and statistics, etc.) to analyze requirements of contracts, drawings, and specifications to develop plans for the application of quality disciplines to processes.
• Ability to perform configuration audits and reviews of products, tools, and processes.
• Ability to compile, measure and analyze process capability data, models to perform trend analyses and risk assessments.
• Skill in process improvement methodologies (i.e., root cause analysis) to plan and coordinate process improvements.
• Ability to ensure sequenced inspection control points, create and maintain inspection accountability systems.
• Ability to identify, evaluate, and implement preventative measures, corrective action, procedural changes, process improvements and present resultant findings.
• Provide education and coaching on the Quality Management System and Manufacturing Verification Process.

Qualifications

• 5 years of related experience in Quality Assurance inspection and/or production environment
• Advanced knowledge of RCCA/8D methodology
• Data analytics experience through SAP and/or MES
• Strong PowerPoint/Excel/Word skills
• Ability to speak in front of large groups/multiple levels of leadership
• Able to work as a team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (not required)
• Composite fabrication knowledge/experience
• Understanding of production and Quality Management Systems
• Experience utilizing quality metrics to make informed decisions and drive results
• Uses problem-solving skills and analytical abilities to develop innovative and expedient solutions to assembly production problems
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suites
• Experience in continuous improvement and manufacturing support
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, team-based environment with multiple disciplines and levels of management
• Self-motivated; taking ownership of projects and issues, including follow through to closure

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.