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Overview

Spirit AeroSystems designs and builds aerostructures for both commercial and defense customers. With headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Malaysia. The company's core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the world's premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.

Responsibilities

• Conducts, manages and maintains synchronization of a supply chain for obtaining goods and services for the company

• Interfaces with internal and external customers and suppliers

• Manages inventory levels, simulation, modeling forecasting data, and supplier performance

• Monitors customer inventory demand and material assets to optimize total supply chain planning

• Incorporates planning decisions from customers and suppliers to reduce material and product variability, and arrive at optimal solutions

• Monitors supplier performance, compliance and regulatory aspects between company and third party manufacturers including relationship management, delivery issues, product development, technical issues, schedule conflicts, assisting with root cause on quality issues, supplier discovery evaluation and recommendation

• Provides suppliers with the proper information to ensure that suppliers understand how to do business with company by coordinating the development of documentation for supplier manual and acts as liaison between company and suppliers to ensure communication and that all products are manufactured following good manufacturing practices (GMPs) and products are released and available on-time to meet customer needs

• Identifies potential new suppliers and evaluates, capacity, capability manufacturing processes, financial stability of new suppliers

• May respond to internal cost and feasibility requests and obtain vendor quotes

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in a supply chain role, preferably within the aerospace or manufacturing industry

• Knowledge of SAP/ERP Systems

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

• High energy, dynamic personality with an ability to effect change

• Ability to communicate and track program change as flowed down by Prime/Company

• Integrated Product Team representation and support

• Change Management

• Performing BOE (Bases of estimate)/Estimating tasks

• Knowledge and support of P&L activities

• Ability to be decisive in complex problem solving

• Ability to interpret Engineering dwg, quality specs, and operational build sequences to help suppliers

• Team with cross functional support organization, represent the shop and clearly communicate concerns to suppliers

  Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Supply Chain, or other relevant course of study

• Knowledge/experience with/in manufacturing and manufacturing process

  Spirit AeroSystems is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law.