Integrated Product Team Leader - Spirit AeroSystems

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 include:

• Organizing and leading the IPT; establishing, executing and maintaining IPT planning (including integration with the overall program execution plan)
• Planning elements in support of the program integrated master schedule
• Conducting IPT-level change control and RIO boards and ensuring integration with the Program Change Control Board to control and update IPT technical and non-technical baselines; supporting the Program Manager in stakeholder needs management activity
• Coordination on the identification, development and validation of IPT allocated life cycle requirements (e.g. requirements,configuration, data, contract, etc)
• Defining build-to / buy-to-packages; ensuring affordability to allocated targets
• Maintaining requirements compliance and product configuration (including design data delivery); validation, verification, and certification oversight for responsible end items
• Coordination with SCM on supplier selection, integration, and oversight of SOW
• Overseeing functional efforts to qualify materials, processes and suppliers (inc. first part qualification)
• Overall development and delivery of end items / products
• Integration and utilization of standards and best practices (process and tool) within the IPT and in support of cross-IPT integration.  
• Ability to direct, develop, align, integrate, implement and manage IPT plans and processes.
• Ensure disciplined change control, including effectively evaluating and managing major and minor product and process changes and customer requests.  

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Financial Acumen, Business Acumen, Managing with Influence
• Technical Acumen (development), Interpersonal relationships and communication

Required:

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing leadership, preferably aerospace related
• Ability to function on multi functioning team
• Microsoft Office including presentation skills using Powerpoint
• Communication skills

Work Experiences:

• Customer Interface, Change Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Risk Management, Affordability Management, Product Configuration Management
• Development and/or sustaining programs, Earned Value Management, Developing Proposals and Estimating, Integrated Program Planning and Scheduling
• Cross-functional project management, Experience leading Integrated Product Teams (IPT's), Experience with Continuous Improvement/Lean/Six Sigma

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.

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.