Welder – Production

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

Location: Wichita, KS

Position Responsibilities:

• Plan, estimate, sequence, and perform any task required to program applicable to weld shop, fabricate, weld, assemble, maintain, inspect, and repair any and all types of tools.
• Use processes such as cutting, grinding, spotting, painting, abrasive blasting, hand finish, shaping, bending, drilling, reaming, tapping, lay-out, welding, stress relief ovens, inspection, set-up, operate all types of fabrication and measurement equipment and machine tools required to fabricate tools to include, but not be limited to, disc sanders, grinders, band saws and laydown saw, drill presses, de-burr tumbler, coping and beveling pipe machine.
• Coordinate, plan, estimate, and sequence work with other employees. Use and/or interpret tool and engineering drawings and computer aided design models, sketches, templates, tool design manuals, verbal information, master tools, production parts, digital data and various handbooks in accomplishing and communicating work requirements.
• Know, understand and perform material preparation, welding processes, and correct usage of amperage, voltage, pressure gauges and tips, brazing, soldering, and bonding materials.
• Perform various welding processes to fabricate tools including SMAW(Shield Metal Arc Welding), GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding), GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding), FCAW (Flux Core Arc Welding), SAW (Submerged ARC Welding), TIP TIG, plasma arc cutting, weld conditioning, and vacuum tight welding of face-sheet seams on tools of various alloys and metal smith.
• All welds must be visually and functionally acceptable throughout all ranges of thickness (0.10-5) per industry standards.
• Perform various welding processes with various alloys and metals including, but not limited to, steel, stainless steel, titanium, invar, aluminum, tool steel, and Kirk site.
• Successfully pass and maintain weld certifications.
• Perform basic shop math and pass yearly eye exam. Perform routine minor machine maintenance daily on your machine.
• Manufacturing Welder includes Employee is able to perform all functions of the welder function, along with performing Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding of various metals and metal alloys to fabricate experimental and production parts and assemblies.
• Relative to the inspection duties performs the following: Maintain required AWS certifications.
• Required to read applicable weld symbols, intrepid blueprints, engineering drawings computer aided design drawings and electronic work instructions.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Must be willing and able to work any shift.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• TIG welding experience with Aluminum, Stainless/stainless alloys, titanium,  and Inconel.
• Production aircraft welding experience preferred.
• Precision fabrication with metals
• Familiar with AWS D17.1
• Can follow engineering drawing and weld symbols

Union:

This is a union-represented position.

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. 

Pay:  $27.31/hour, with potential to earn up to $41.13/hour in accordance with the terms of the relevant collective bargaining agreement.

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.