The Deputy Director leads manufacturing site services focusing on maintenance strategies automation projects and operational excellence in a complex production environment.

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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 aluminium manufacturing solutions.
Boeing Wichita is seeking a Deputy Direct of Manufacturing Site Services to join their team in Wichita KS. This Senior Manager role is the deputy to Manufacturing Site Services (MSS) for Boeing Wichita and is responsible to lead all activities related to strategic planning resulting in the reliability and automation of manufacturing equipment in a large-scale highly complex production environment. This role owns strategy execution and continuous improvement programs that maximize equipment availability safety product quality and productivity while minimizing lifecycle cost and downtime. The position combines technical leadership project and program management people leadership and cross-functional coordination across engineering production quality and supply chain.
Position Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the plant-level maintenance and automation strategy aligned with corporate objectives capacity plans and capital investment roadmap
• Drive resiliency of The Production System through Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) best practices to minimize fire-fighting
• Build a multidisciplinary team of maintenance automation controls and reliability engineers technicians and contractors
• Sponsor and deliver automation projects: process automation robotics vision systems data integration and MES/OT convergence
• Assess current equipment portfolio for optimal cost effectiveness and sourcing strategies
• Lead root cause analysis and major incident response around equipment failure; implement sustainable corrective actions and lessons learned
• Enhance KPIs and dashboards for equipment availability (OEE) MTTR MTBF work backlog wrench time maintenance cost and project ROI; report performance to senior leadership
• Manage maintenance and automation budgets CAPEX requests and contractor/vendor relationships; ensure cost control and schedule adherence
• Ensure compliance with safety environmental regulatory and quality standards; lead continuous improvement and standardized work for maintenance activities
• Partner with IT to drive digitalization efforts for maintenance
• Collaborate cross-functionally to support new product introductions line reconfigurations and process scale-up

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at our Wichita KS site.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Electrical Mechatronics Controls Industrial Engineering or related field
• 10+ years of progressive managing machine maintenance and automation in a large scale highly complex manufacturing environment with at least 5 years in a leadership role
• Proven experience managing machine maintenance and automation projects
• Strong knowledge of maintenance strategies (TPM/TPM II RCM) predictive maintenance technologies and CMMS (e.g. IBM Maximo SAP PM)
• Demonstrated success delivering capital automation projects and managing vendor/contractor partners
• Excellent people leadership skills with experience managing multi-shift operations and unionized workforces
• Strong analytical problem-solving and project management skills; PMP or equivalent certification desirable
• Effective communicator capable of engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership
• Deep knowledge of Lean practices and/or Six Sigma and application to improve business results

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Master's Degree

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: $200000 - $215000
Kansas Tax Credit: Join Spirit AeroSystems' Kansas team and you may be eligible for a $5000 state of Kansas Aviation tax credit for up to five years. Click here for more information on the tax credit. #LI-CG1
Export Control Requirements:
Export Control Requirements: This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements a "U.S. Person" as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. "U.S. Person" includes U.S. Citizen lawful permanent resident refugee or asylee.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity age physical or mental disability genetic factors military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.