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Overview

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units, which designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, estimate, sequence, and perform tasks related to welding and fabrication.
  • Use various processes and equipment to fabricate tools.
  • Coordinate and communicate work requirements with other employees.
  • Understand and perform material preparation and welding processes.
  • Perform various welding processes including SMAW, GTAW, GMAW, FCAW, SAW, and others.
  • Ensure all welds meet visual and functional standards.
  • Maintain weld certifications and perform basic shop math.
  • Perform routine minor machine maintenance.
  • Read and interpret weld symbols and engineering drawings.

Requirements

  • Must be willing and able to work any shift.
  • TIG welding experience with Aluminum, Stainless alloys, titanium, and Inconel preferred.
  • Production aircraft welding experience preferred.
  • Familiarity with AWS D17.1.
  • Ability to follow engineering drawings and weld symbols.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Location: Wichita, KS
  • This is a union-represented position.
  • Drug Free Workplace.

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
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How this job compares in Wichita, KS

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 32% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Kansas — toward the top of a $24–$31/hr middle band drawn from 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 78% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Wichita, KS

Wichita, KS currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Kansas as a whole we're tracking 24 other active welding openings from 18 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Wichita, or widen the search to Kansas.

Boeing currently has 1 other opening live in Kansas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Kansas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Watts Water Technologies (3), Schuff Steel (3), and Midmark Corporation (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, Stick, and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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