Pros
You get paid every two weeks.
Cons
Most workers are hired off the street to build aerostructures and the closest they have ever gotten to an airplane is the time one flew over their house. The QA department is made up of meat inspectors from the local meat packing plants and have no idea as to what quality aerospace work looks like, much less how it is done. The few experienced people that do have are not considered for a position in management because knowledgeable people are a threat to upper management jobs. The most popular qualification for becoming a member of management here at the Kinston, N.C. site is experience in making hot dogs, you can't make this stuff up, I am being serious. We refer to our managers as "wiener slingers" because that is the only thing that they are truly good at. Then there is the union. The company allowed to IAM to waltz right through the front door and pretty much take over. The union now forces the company to keep on people who come in drunk and/or high on drugs. I have seen people, including members of management, get suspended 3 or 4 times for being drunk on the job before being fired. FYI: only hourly workers are fired for such conduct, not managers, they are reprimanded and sent home for a few days. The union also negotiated away a very generous matching 401K plan in which we were 100% vested in from day one of employment in favor of a retirement plan that pays a whopping $0.35 an hour into a union sponsored retirement fund. Top pay had no ceiling before the union, but was negotiated down to $18.50 per hour with a whole $0.50 per year pay raise guaranteed each year until you reach the $18.50 mark. Spirit claims to pay competitive wages for the area. They are honest about that part. They pay about the same as Lowes and Lenox China, but they pay about half what Mt. Air Cargo pays, which is right next door. sadly, the security guards make about the same as the production makes. All in all it is a poorly run company that is in deep trouble if someone does not wake up and realize that their current business model is a blueprint for complete and udder failure. Incompetency runs rampant from the top, all the way down to the low man on the totem pole. These reasons are why i am soon leaving with my 23 years experience and going to work at The Cherry Point rework facility and hour away.