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Quality Engineer Manager

Spirit AeroSystems

Wichita, KSJob$102–156K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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Compensation
$102–156K/yr
Location
Wichita, KS
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Quality Engineer Manager supports Spirit Commercial’s commercial aerostructures business. The role develops and evaluates quality processes, systems, and equipment; analyzes requirements and nonconforming materials; and tests and approves products and processes. It also supports audits, root cause analysis, corrective actions, configuration management, and cross-functional compliance with contractual, company, and regulatory requirements.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Quality Management SystemsAerospace ManufacturingFunctional InspectionRoot Cause Corrective ActionProject ManagementMicrosoft OfficeSAPInterpersonal SkillsAnalytical SkillsLeadershipContinuous Process ImprovementTime ManagementFirst Article InspectionInspection MethodologiesInspection ToolsCoordinate Measuring MachinesCross-Functional Team Leadership

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Engineering5+ Years Quality Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

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 aluminum manufacturing solutions.

Responsibilities

Position Responsibilities:

  • Develops processes, systems, and equipment that ensure the quality, reliability, and system safety of company or procured products and services.

  • Provides quality system design and analysis review to validate the integrity of quality decisions that affect products and services.

  • Analyzes contractual, product definition, and specification requirements for the development or modification of methods, procedures, and metrics needed to ensure that quality standards and practices are attained.

  • Analyzes and provides material review dispositions for nonconforming materials, parts, and equipment.

  • Performs scientific evaluations and analyses and processes audits.

  • Tests and approves products, processes, equipment, and measurement systems.

  • Ensures that resulting processes provide for configuration management.

  • Participates in design and product reviews to ensure that producibility, inspectability, reliability, safety, Quality System integrity, and business process management objectives are met.

  • Performs such research as benchmarking to industry standards; analyzes and compiles performance reports and process control statistics in order to determine and improve process capability or product quality.

  • P erforms root cause analyses.

  • Recommends and supports the implementation of corrective actions that are necessary to reduce or eliminate nonconformance to design specifications.

  • Interfaces with company employees, suppliers, customers, and regulatory agencies toensure compliance with contractual, company, and regulatory requirements.

  • Develops and uses statistical methodologies to ensure that specified levels of safety, reliability, and process capability are achieved, maintained, or improved.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited Engineering program

  • 5+ years’ experience in a Quality discipline

  • Experience in Quality Management System (QMS) requirements

  • Experience in Aerospace or a Manufacturing environment

  • Functional Inspection experience

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and effectively work multiple simultaneous assignments in a fast-paced, rapid change environment.

  • Support multiple functions such as Assembly, Fabrication, and Supply Chain

  • Root Cause and Correct Action (RCCA)

  • Project management

  • Computing – Microsoft Office applications.

  • SAP experience

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

  • Excellent interpersonal skills for working cross functionally across teams.

  • Analytical, demonstrated ability to analyze requirements and prioritize accordingly.

  • Strong leadership ability

  • A focus on continuous process improvement

  • Exceptional time management skills

  • Working familiarity of First Article Inspections (FAI)

  • Functional experience in First Article Inspection (FAI)

  • Familiar with multiple inspection methodologies: inspection tools, machines, CMM etc.

  • Experience in conducting a Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) associated with a complex technical issue

  • Experience leading cross-functional teams

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: $101,900 - $ 156,250

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.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,003 open Quality Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$102–156K/yr
  • US median$116–180K/yr570 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $129K, is 14% below the US median midpoint ($150K) — in the middle half of Quality Engineering salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 13 open Quality Engineering jobs in Kansas and 1,003 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Quality Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (714 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 468 of the 1,003 open Quality Engineering jobs (47%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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