Spirit Aerosystems

Spirit runs a paid College Internship Program across ten tracks, including Engineering, Quality, Fabrication, Operations, Environmental Health & Safety, Human Resources, and Accounting & Finance, at its Wichita, Tulsa, Kinston, and Dallas sites; eligibility requires at least junior standing at an accredited university. Separately, its Apprenticeship Program runs three named trade tracks, Facilities Equipment Maintenance Electrician, Facilities Industrial Mechanic, and NC Programmer, combining 4,000 to 8,000 hours of technical schooling and on-the-job training while apprentices work as full-time Spirit employees throughout; local news coverage of a graduating class confirmed full-time employment is guaranteed at completion. The two are separate application decisions rather than one funnel: the internship needs a current college enrollment, the apprenticeship is a direct-hire trade pathway that does not.

Every track of Spirit's College Internship Program requires applicants to "be a US Person" (the export-control category covering US citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees), with no exception listed for non-technical tracks like accounting or marketing. Independent reporting on aerospace hiring places Spirit in the "sponsorship happens, but is less common" tier for full-time roles, behind prime contractors like Boeing Commercial Airplanes, because it is a structural and systems supplier rather than a prime. For an international student, the internship route into Spirit is closed regardless of major, while a full-time offer after graduation is possible but should not be assumed.

Spirit AeroSystems completed its acquisition by The Boeing Company on 8 December 2025, reported independently at $8.3 billion including assumed debt:

• Roughly 15,000 Spirit employees across the Wichita, Dallas, Tulsa, Prestwick, and Belfast sites became part of Boeing
• Boeing absorbed Spirit's commercial work on the 737, 767, 777, and 787 programs
• Belfast now operates as a separate Boeing subsidiary, Short Brothers, while Spirit Defense continues serving defense customers as an independent entity

For an early-career hire, this means joining a direct Boeing manufacturing operation rather than an independent supplier, with career paths and internal systems still mid-transition as the sites integrate.

Not right now. Spirit Aerosystems has no internship or graduate roles listed today; new postings appear here as the firm opens them.

Applications to Spirit Aerosystems go through the firm's own careers site, one application per posting, each expecting a CV and cover letter written for that role.