Team Leader - Stress

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.

The opportunity requires candidates to work in an agile, diverse and fast-paced environment developing cutting-edge technologies for aerostructures and future fuels integration. The successful candidate will deliver expert structural analysis leadership and integrate across our design, R&D, systems, and test teams in a rapid design, build and test environment. R&D areas of focus include metallics, composites, future fuels storage and integration, digital factory & harnessing new developments in IT.

Diversity and inclusion are key to innovation. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in the industry.

Role Purpose

The role provides the technical oversight for the design to ensure that the stress aspects of major design/build packages are compliant with all specified technical requirements.

This opportunity offers:

• 37 hour working week (half day Friday).
• 33 days holiday per year, rising with service.
• Annual Bonus related to company performance.
• Defined contribution pension scheme (default contributions; 4% employee and 8% employer).
• Virtual GP Service 365 days per year.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• A wide range of flexible benefits.
• Death in service payment (default 4 times basic salary).
• Cycle To Work Scheme.
• Professional development and growth.
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment.

Responsibilities

• The delivery of completed & approved documentation to customers on time and on cost.
• To ensure the structural integrity of all projects.
• Adherence to all Type Approvals and requirements.
• Adherence to all governing bodies (CAA, EASA, FAA).

Qualifications

• Supervises the work of engineers and contractors to fulfil customer expectations.
• Plans and organises training to ensure engineers are appropriately skilled to carry out their responsibilities.
• Reviews and approves the analysis of engineers, ensuring customer requirements, safety and environmental standards are met.
• Ensures work programmes are delivered within budgets and deadlines and in line with customer requirements.
• Develops and specifies analysis methods to be used by the team.
• Defines with the Customer the structural analysis requirements and agrees means of compliance.
• Prepares resource schedules and defines packages to be offloaded.
• Defines and structures project requirements for work packages.
• Plans and agrees with the customer, work sequences and timescales and develops project programmes.
• Monitors the execution of key projects and contracts to ensure plans and timetables are met.
• Ensures purchase requisitions are in place to undertake the project.
• Assesses and selects sub-contract staff.
• Project Management skills essential.
• Degree qualified in relevant Engineering Discipline.

Decision Making Authority

• Approves others work to ensure Company, Customer and Regulatory requirements are met.
• Identifies and implements methods and techniques to be used within own particular work area.

We are looking for people who want to make a difference, talented team members with the skills and passion to become the best at what they do.

Closing Date: Monday, 23rd June at 12pm.

External applicants should be aware that as part of our pre-employment checks, preferred candidates must complete:

• Right to Work in the UK check
• Employment Reference check
• Disclosure Scotland check
• Pre-employment Medical

Spirit AeroSystems is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, 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.