Quality Systems Investigator – Aerospace

Spirit AeroSystems; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 73,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Health savings accounts

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance

Paid time away

Job summary

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. in Wichita, Kansas, seeks a Quality professional to develop and maintain quality systems, procedures, and customer requirements. The role focuses on compliance with contractual and regulatory standards and coordinating improvements across manufacturing and suppliers.

You will lead design reviews, perform audits, and analyze data to drive root cause investigations and safeguard product quality in a dynamic, unionized environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a quality discipline, preferably in inspection, aerospace, or manufacturing.
• Working with engineering drawings and customer specification.
• MS Office (PowerPoint & Excel) experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with attention to detail.
• Leadership experience helpful.
• Experience with MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems).
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and team-based environment.
• Ability to prioritize requests and take ownership of projects.

Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge of quality policies, governmental regulations, and engineering principles to develop, document, and maintain quality systems, operating procedures, and customer requirements.
• Develop and administer directives, policies, processes, and procedures to ensure compliance with contractual, company, and regulatory requirements, thereby assuring quality system compliance.
• Plan and coordinate improvements in manufacturing, including hardware and tool acceptance, variability reduction, developing key suppliers, and assembly operations.
• Perform design reviews to ensure quality is engineered into products and tools, while also analyzing requirements of contracts, drawings, and specifications to develop plans for applying quality disciplines to processes.
• Conduct configuration audits and reviews of products, tools, and processes, and compile, measure, and analyze process capability data to perform trend analyses and risk assessments.
• Utilize process improvement methodologies, such as root cause analysis, to plan and coordinate process improvements and ensure sequenced inspection control points, creating and maintaining inspection accountability systems.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement preventative measures, corrective actions, procedural changes, and process improvements, and present resultant findings.
• Attend, interface and present data during customer meetings.

Skills

Quality discipline

Engineering drawings

Customer specifications

MS Office

Communication skills

MES

Tools

MES

Job description

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. in Wichita, Kansas, seeks a Quality professional to develop and maintain quality systems, procedures, and customer requirements. The role focuses on compliance with contractual and regulatory standards and coordinating improvements across manufacturing and suppliers.

You will lead design reviews, perform audits, and analyze data to drive root cause investigations and safeguard product quality in a dynamic, unionized environment.