Operations Engineering Management – P & IE

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.

 

Operations Engineering Management – P&IE for the S41 787 Assembly area is responsible for leading Production and Industrial Engineering capacity planning and operational execution activities supporting the Fabrication division in Wichita, KS. This role focuses on ensuring production systems are optimized to meet throughput, delivery, and recovery requirements across commercial, defense, aftermarket, and internal Boeing programs.

 

Key responsibilities include managing production order release scheduling, developing and executing WIP management strategies, monitoring shop health metrics, and implementing recovery and rate plans to maintain operational performance. The position works closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Business Management, and Manufacturing teams to align production demand with asset capacity, capital planning, preventative maintenance schedules, and risk mitigation strategies.

 

This role also supports onload/offload planning, facilities utilization, and long-range capacity planning while ensuring production readiness and statement-of-work execution. In addition, the position facilitates operational reviews with leadership, develops executive visibility tools and reporting decks, and drives continuous improvement initiatives focused on throughput, delivery health, resource optimization, and overall system performance.

Responsibilities

Position Responsibilities:

• Manages experienced professional managers that lead teams of represented salary employees (e.g., IE, project management, etc).
• Enforce policies, and procedures that may affect sections and subordinate work units.
• Competency to complete the task with little to no oversight.
• Skills to navigate difficult situations and conversations to a productive outcome.
• Capable of managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment to closure.
• Ability to ensure direct reports are able to meet critical schedule deadlines.
• Requires interaction across all levels of leadership.
• Lead a team of represented employees in Industrial Engineering, Business Analysis, Project Management, etc.
• Conduct studies pertaining to cost control, cost reduction, inventory control, and production record systems – based on these studies, develop, and implement optimized product flow.
• 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 developing solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Knowledge of IE Tools used in production i.e.: capacity analysis, facility layout, and production improvements.
• Experience utilizing production metrics to make informed decisions and drive results.
• Develop, control, and manage existing reporting for metrics, rate readiness, quality, and other cadences for Fabrication senior leadership

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree.
• Understanding of a manufacturing production atmosphere.
• Use problem-solving skills and analytical abilities to develop innovative and expedient solutions to fabrication problems.
• Ability to manage projects and to lead and participate in cross-functional teams to accomplish engineering initiatives, in a team environment, interact with multiple disciplines and levels of management.
• Ability to communicate effectively, act decisively, and to demonstrate innovation and resourcefulness.
• Knowledge of business and production metrics structures and reporting
• Knowledge of standard business software including Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of SAP MRP systems

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Master of Science Degree in Engineering preferred.
• Aerospace, mechanical, or industrial engineering degree preferred.
• Experience with Business Management functions
• Experience with Demand Management
• Experience with APICS Supply Chain principles
• Experience with Lean/Six Sigma/Theory of Constraints
• Knowledge of Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning

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: $105,300 - $161,450

 

Kansas Tax Credit: Join Spirit AeroSystems’ Kansas team and you may be eligible for a $5,000 state of Kansas Aviation tax credit for up to five years. Click here for more information on the tax credit.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree.
• Understanding of a manufacturing production atmosphere.
• Use problem-solving skills and analytical abilities to develop innovative and expedient solutions to fabrication problems.
• Ability to manage projects and to lead and participate in cross-functional teams to accomplish engineering initiatives, in a team environment, interact with multiple disciplines and levels of management.
• Ability to communicate effectively, act decisively, and to demonstrate innovation and resourcefulness.
• Knowledge of business and production metrics structures and reporting
• Knowledge of standard business software including Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of SAP MRP systems

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Master of Science Degree in Engineering preferred.
• Aerospace, mechanical, or industrial engineering degree preferred.
• Experience with Business Management functions
• Experience with Demand Management
• Experience with APICS Supply Chain principles
• Experience with Lean/Six Sigma/Theory of Constraints
• Knowledge of Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning

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: $105,300 - $161,450

 

Kansas Tax Credit: Join Spirit AeroSystems’ Kansas team and you may be eligible for a $5,000 state of Kansas Aviation tax credit for up to five years. Click here for more information on the tax credit.

Position Responsibilities:

• Manages experienced professional managers that lead teams of represented salary employees (e.g., IE, project management, etc).
• Enforce policies, and procedures that may affect sections and subordinate work units.
• Competency to complete the task with little to no oversight.
• Skills to navigate difficult situations and conversations to a productive outcome.
• Capable of managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment to closure.
• Ability to ensure direct reports are able to meet critical schedule deadlines.
• Requires interaction across all levels of leadership.
• Lead a team of represented employees in Industrial Engineering, Business Analysis, Project Management, etc.
• Conduct studies pertaining to cost control, cost reduction, inventory control, and production record systems – based on these studies, develop, and implement optimized product flow.
• 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 developing solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Knowledge of IE Tools used in production i.e.: capacity analysis,