Senior Aerospace Production Leader

The Boeing Company; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 106,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a Boeing subsidiary, seeks an experienced operations leader to steer production activities and drive continuous improvement at our Kansas site.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage schedules, budgets, quality, and engineering requirements, and ensure alignment with customer contracts and supplier expectations. This role offers growth within a premier aerospace organization.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of related operations leadership/management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage budgets, cost, quality, and schedules.
• Experience leading processes and/or metrics for Operational Excellence Teams and/or Performance Management Teams.
• Experience leading a positional team for continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to work with multiple levels of executive, middle and first-line management, industry peers, as well as internal and external customers.
• Ability to read and interpret integrated master schedules.

Responsibilities

• Lead Production Operations through collaboration with cross functional teams to meet production requirements and customer acceptance.
• Communicate and execute the manufacturing plan and schedule; implement changes.
• Lead team in quality improvement initiatives.
• Engage in proposal, estimates and/or concept of operations development.
• Lead team in developing solutions to complex problems requiring ingenuity and creativity.
• Manage the build process and compliance for engineering requirements, QA standards, and customer contracts.

Skills

Operations leadership

Budget management

Cost management

Schedule management

Cross-functional collaboration

Reading master schedules

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

SAP

Job description

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a Boeing subsidiary, seeks an experienced operations leader to steer production activities and drive continuous improvement at our Kansas site.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage schedules, budgets, quality, and engineering requirements, and ensure alignment with customer contracts and supplier expectations. This role offers growth within a premier aerospace organization.