Senior EHS Specialist

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Cape Canaveral, FL
In-Office
110K-141K Annually
Senior level
Aerospace • Hardware • Robotics • Software • Manufacturing
The Role
The role involves ensuring safety through collaboration, hazard identification, risk assessments, implementing safety processes, conducting audits, and long-term vehicle support.
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At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team:

The EHS team carries a profound responsibility to keep people and the environments where we operate safe while we build the future. We're not here to slow things down; we're here to enable safe speed. At this stage in Relativity’s trajectory, you'll have the rare opportunity to shape how EHS is embedded in every process and decision, from the factory floor to the launch pad. We have a voice at every level, and we use it to build a culture where EHS isn’t just about compliance, but rather a shared responsibility amongst all employees.

About the Role:

  • Collaborate with engineering and operational teams from technician level to site leadership on a variety of safety topics from the planning through execution phases.
  • Identify hazards, perform risk assessments like Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), and implement effective control measures.
  • Participate in design review, build, and activation of launch pad ground support equipment, including high pressure gas systems, cryogenic systems, flammable liquids, electrical systems, mechanical systems, and more.
  • Build out safety processes and programs for Launch Operations based on on-site observations, identified gaps, and feedback from all levels of personnel.
  • Balance time between program development and in-field support, helping to build on our positive safety culture through visibility and availability.
  • Conduct safety audits, inspections, and incident investigations using root cause investigation strategies and provide meaningful corrective action recommendations.
  • Long term this position will include vehicle processing and launch support, which covers ground support equipment as well as a wide range of EHS topics. These areas may include hearing protection, respiratory protection, hazard communication, industrial hygiene, and more.

About You:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 5+ years of EHS experience. Preferred experience in pressure systems, electrical safety, launch operations, aerospace, or other complex technical environments.
  • Strong knowledge of OSHA, NFPA 70E, ANSI, ASME, and/or related safety standards.
  • Proven experience conducting risk assessments, hazard analysis, and incident investigations in complex technical environments.
  • Experience in project management and continuous improvement strategies for various safety programs in a high-speed technical environment.

Nice to haves but not required:

  • Experience with high-pressure systems (hydraulic, pneumatic, or gas-based) in industrial or launch operation environments.
  • Experience with high voltage systems, NFPA 70E, electrical safety, and LOTO in industrial or launch operation environments.
  • Knowledge of testing protocols and mechanical safety hazards.
  • Relevant Certifications: Associate Safety Professional (ASP) or Certified Safety Professional (CSP), OSHA 30 hour, or other professional safety certifications.
  • Advanced skill in Microsoft Office tools.
  • Strong organizational, analytical, and time-management skills.

Successful candidates must clear a background check administered by the US government to obtain clearance for on-site work at our government partner location in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

Hiring Range:
$110,000$141,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].


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The Company
HQ: Long Beach, CA
1,800 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. Our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, Terran R, will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time.

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At Relativity Space, we are an office-first company. We believe our best work happens in person—where collaboration is faster, problem-solving is sharper, and ideas flow more freely.

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HQLong Beach, CA
Cape Canaveral, FL
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