After a nearly two-decade wait, a major tenant is finally coming to the much ballyhooed Global TransPark in Kinston.

The state Commerce Department said Wednesday that Kansas-based Spirit AeroSystems has agreed to hire 1,031 workers over five years at a new facility it will build at the state-owned industrial park.

The jobs at the aircraft parts supplier will pay an average of $48,122 annually, compared with the average yearly wage of $27,042 in Lenoir County. The state is offering Spirit an incentive package worth more than $20 million, payable over 12 years.

Spirit bills itself as the world's largest supplier of commercial airplane assemblies and components for clients that include Airbus, Gulfstream and Cessna. The company plans to make fuselages and engine components at the TransPark.