Senior Aerospace Production Manager: Drive Quality & Lean

Spirit AeroSystems; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 106,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita, KS, seeks an experienced operations leader to drive production programs and cross-functional initiatives. You will manage schedules, budgets, and quality improvements while coordinating with engineering, program management, and customers to meet contract requirements.

Ideal candidates have 3–5+ years of leadership experience, familiarity with integrated master schedules, and comfort working in a dynamic aerospace environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of 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, including First Level Managers, Quality Assurance, Program Management, Engineering, Executive Management, Supply Chain, and Customers, to meet production requirements and customer acceptance.
• Interact across all levels of the organization; efficiently and effectively communicate and execute the manufacturing plan and schedule, implement agreed upon changes; navigate difficult situations and conversations to a productive outcome.
• Lead team in quality improvement initiatives.
• Engage in proposal, estimates and/or concept of operations development.
• Lead team in developing solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Manage the build process and compliance for engineering requirements, Quality Assurance standards, and customer contract requirements.

Skills

Operations leadership

Budget management

Schedule management

Quality improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Master schedule reading

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced degree

Tools

SAP

Job description

Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita, KS, seeks an experienced operations leader to drive production programs and cross-functional initiatives. You will manage schedules, budgets, and quality improvements while coordinating with engineering, program management, and customers to meet contract requirements.

Ideal candidates have 3–5+ years of leadership experience, familiarity with integrated master schedules, and comfort working in a dynamic aerospace environment.