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 companys core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the worlds premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.
Responsibilities
Key Accountabilities
- Develops plans and schedules, evaluates costs and risks, and manages changes to program plans and schedules.
- Establishes planning and scheduling systems, forecasts demand, develops strategic plans, conducts risk assessment and make/buy analyses, and analyzes new scheduling techniques for current programs and new business proposals.
- Develops and directs production master schedules and time-phased manufacturing sequence plans.
- Performs flow-time calculations, validates the schedule data with supervisors, and produces schedule status data for management.
- Provides program schedule strategy and progress information to customers, suppliers, and company management.
- Determines such requirements as rate and rotable tools necessary to support manufacturing build plans.
- Interfaces with program management, fabrication management, assembly management, and tooling to ensure the accuracy of forecasting information and schedule feasibility.
- Lead of contribute to monthly planning meetings
- Communicate cross functionally to ensure schedule is attainable, and challenge leaders to maintain schedule commitments to avoid numerous reschedules
Qualifications
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience with a Bachelors Degree or 1-3 with a Masters Degree
- Aerospace Industry knowledge helpful
- Scheduling experience
- Math skills and excellent communication abilities.
- MSOffice specifically Excel required.
- SAP Experience
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.
