Mid-Level Quality Assurance Compliance

Spirit AeroSystems; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 73,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Spirit AeroSystems, located in Tulsa, OK, is seeking a senior quality professional to develop and maintain quality systems and drive process improvements. The role emphasizes compliance with policy, procedures, and specifications, with focus on inspection, tooling, and manufacturing quality in aerospace.

The position requires 6-9 years in quality, strong data analysis, and ability to coordinate cross-functional quality initiatives, including customer inspection plans and design reviews.

Qualifications

• 6-9 years of experience in a quality discipline, preferably inspection, aerospace or manufacturing.
• Ability to read, understand, and communicate policy, procedures and specifications.
• Interpret drawings and communicate details.
• Time management with the ability to prioritize multiple assignments.
• Organizational skills for pulling data from multiple sources and daily tracking.
• Effective communication within and outside the group.
• Must be able to walk between buildings and stand for long periods.
• Inspection background with extensive knowledge of quality requirements.

Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge of quality policies and practices to develop, document, and maintain quality systems and operating procedures.
• Develop and administer directives, policies, processes and procedures to ensure compliance with contractual, company, and regulatory requirements to assure quality system compliance.
• Apply knowledge of policies to develop and administer long-range customer inspection plans, acting as agent for customer to meet requirements.
• Plan and coordinate improvements in manufacturing processes and supplier development.
• Perform design reviews to ensure quality is engineered into the product and tools.
• Conduct configuration audits and reviews of products, tools, and processes; analyze data for trends and risk.
• Utilize root cause analysis and process improvement methods to drive improvements.
• Ensure inspection control points and accountability systems are in place.
• Identify and implement preventive actions and procedural changes; present findings.
• Provide education and coaching on the Quality Management System and Manufacturing Verification Process.

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

SAP/MES

Smartsheets

Tableau

Job description

Overview

This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units(“Spirit Commercial”). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, one of Boeing’s three business units and the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. Spirit Commercial’s core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminium manufacturing solutions.

Responsibilities

Location: Tulsa, OK

Position Responsibilities:

• Apply knowledge of quality policies and practices to develop, document, and maintain quality systems and operating procedures.
• Develop and administer directives, policies, processes and procedures to ensure compliance with contractual, company, and regulatory requirements to assure quality system compliance.
• 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

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 6-9 years of experience in a quality discipline, preferably in inspection, aerospace, or manufacturing
• Microsoft office skills intermediate in Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to read , understand, and communicate Policy, Procedures, and Specifications
• Interpret drawings and communicate details
• Time Management with ability to prioritize multiple assignments at one time
• Organizational skills pulling data from multiple sources and combining for daily tracking
• Communicate effectively within and outside of group
• Must be able to walk to and from different buildings and stand for multiple hours
• Inspection background with extensive knowledge with quality requirements

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Proficiency in defect identification, non-conformance data analysis, and thorough documentation skills
• Functional experience in First Article Inspection (FAI) utilizing Net-Inspect
• Experience with SAP/MES systems and proficiency in Smartsheets and Tableau software platforms

Drug Free Workplace:

We are a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

We strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

We also provide eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay Range: $73,400 - $112,550