Industrial Engineer - Assembly Support

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 :

• Analyzes and designs sequence of operations workflow to improve efficiency of production facilities and equipment; and establishes methods for maximizing utilization of production facilities and personnel, and optimization of product flow.
• Conduct quarterly headcount analysis based on production rates, identifying opportunities and risks; develop headcount models for various what-if scenarios to support strategic planning and staffing decisions.
• Develops schedule analysis, recovery flows and risk analysis to meet customer delivery dates or provide improved dates.
• Conducts studies pertaining to cost control, cost reduction, inventory control, and production record systems. Based on these studies, develops and implements optimized product flow.
• May assist facilities engineers in the planning and design of facilities.
• Develops and provides basis of estimate (BOE) for standard work changes and new work implementation.
• Utilizes analytical skills for capacity analysis, tool and equipment utilization as well as line balancing.
• Performs trend analysis of shop performance measures to identify opportunities for improvements.
• Download and Manipulate data to support data driven business decisions.
• Develop and execute automation scripts using VBA and Python to streamline data processing, perform capacity simulations, and generate custom reports from SAP and Excel-based systems.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

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. Click here for more information on the tax credit.