Supervisor, Structures Technician - First Shift

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Long Beach, CA, USA
In-Office
118K-163K Annually
Mid level
Aerospace • Hardware • Robotics • Software • Manufacturing
Building reusable rockets to empower science and exploration.
The Role
Lead a team of technicians in mechanical assembly processes for rocket structures, ensuring quality standards and production schedules are met while fostering an inclusive team environment.
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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 Manufacturing team at Relativity Space is currently deep in manufacturing trades and process development for Terran R, our next generation, reusable rocket. This team has a wide variety of responsibilities—from determining the most efficient factory floor layout, to developing and implementing complex tooling and processes, and even interfacing with the vehicle engineering team to heavily influence the design of the rocket. Unique to Relativity, you will get to work across many teams to iterate and support development of the vehicle program.

This role will be for our First Shift Supervisor role with the hours of 5:00 AM PST - 3:00 PM PST.

About the Role:

In this role, the structures supervisor will be responsible for leading a team of technicians in completing all mechanical assembly processes for barrels, domes, and thrust structure hardware. The processes this supervisor will be responsible for will be precision hole drilling, fastener installation including hiloks, and structural bonding. Within these processes, this supervisor is accountable for maintaining high quality standards, meeting production schedules, and implementing process improvements. This supervisor will also need to be able to drive an inclusive team environment for technicians reporting to them as well as with our cross functional partners such as engineering, quality, and production control.

  • Execute production schedules across all structural assemblies
  • Help establish process standards and hold technician team accountable to these processes to ensure quality is maintained
  • Mentor technician team by providing timely feedback, conducting performance reviews, identifying talent gaps, and conducting regular 1:1s
  • Communicate daily/weekly progress to upper management including any blockers with proposed solutions
  • Lead hiring initiatives to grow the team to meet our Terran R production rate
  • Foster a team culture that supports honesty, transparency, and accountability

About You:

  • 3+ years experience in aerospace manufacturing leadership experience at or above the supervisor level with a track record of executing aggressive production schedules
  • 3+ years experience in structural assembly; including skills such as precision drilling, hilok installation, and structural bonding
  • 3+ years experience with rigging and crane operations with the ability to act as a lift director
  • Experience partnering with cross functional team such as manufacturing engineering, quality, and production control
  • Self starter with a demonstrated ability to take full ownership of the production areas under their span of control
  • Previous track record of helping scale work centers and production processes

Nice to haves, but not required:

    • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office products and/or Smartsheets

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:
$118,000$163,000 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
2,200 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.

Why Work With Us

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.

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