Each year, Spirit offers interns the opportunity to work alongside industry leaders on cutting-edge projects. By joining Spirit as a Spirit intern, you'll get the chance to:

• Gain skills, leadership, and hands-on experience while exploring careers associated with your field of study.
• Build relationships with mentors to provide insight into your career goals.
• Do challenging work on individual and team projects.
• Network with other students, Spirit employees and the community through planned recreational, volunteer and social activities.

Some of the projects this intern may be working on:

• Serve as an engineering programmer/analyst within a development team creating Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) applications for commercial airplane design and analysis.
• Work with the team to capture knowledge of engineering best practices in the form of automated solutions to reduce product definition cost and flow time.
• Work closely with domain experts to document application inputs, outputs, and design rules.
• Follow organization software engineering and configuration management processes. Develop and execute software test plans.
• Maintain KBE applications by providing problem resolution, code and documentation updates, and user technical support.

We seek talented candidates for our internship positions. Ideal candidates should meet the following qualifications:

• Enrolled in a full-time academic program at an ABET accredited college in a mechanical, Civil or aerospace engineering program

• Current sophomore, junior or grad student standing. Seniors should apply to entry level requisitions.

• Have at least a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale

• U.S Person status

Spirit AeroSystems, with headquarters in Wichita, Kan., USA, is one of the world's largest non-OEM designers and manufacturers of aerostructures for commercial aircraft.