Reliability Engineer

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.

Location: Wichita, KS

Key Accountabilities:

• Develops, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.
• Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product and equipment reliability.
• Completes risk analysis studies of new design and processes.
• Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product, process and equipment.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives.
• May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks.
• As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
• Recommends various technology options or approaches for system, processes, facility or program improvements in terms of safety, performance, efficiency or costs.
• May be responsible for the transfer from R&D to manufacturing.

Required Qualifications:

• Requires educational credentials meeting the Spirit classification standards for engineers and typically 2 to 4 years of experience in an engineering classification / position or a Master's degree with 0 to 2 years' experience in an engineering classification / position
• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or other related course of study from an ABET accredited University

Preferred Qualifications:

• Idea candidate will be persistent
• Ability to be flexible, to work on multi-projects simultaneously, or to switch focus between multiple projects
• High degree of integrity
• Ideal candidate will be detail-oriented
• Strong focus on quality & accuracy
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ideal candidate will be a team-player

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.

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