Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Primary Structures

The role

This person will provide Design for Manufacturing feedback and cover the shop floor for primary structure assembly work. They will collaborate with design, manufacturing, and reliability teams to improve assembly operations and create work instructions.

What you will do

• Provide Design for Manufacturing feedback to structures teams during development and builds.
• Collaborate with engineers and external vendors to drive progress.
• Cover the shop floor for all primary structure work center assembly work.
• Clear barriers to keep production moving.
• Champion process improvements across multiple work centers.
• Create work instructions, specifications, and best practices.
• Help standardize processes across the manufacturing team.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, aeronautical, mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline
• 5+ years progressive and related experience
• History of supporting complicated assembly builds
• Ability to make risk decisions to disposition issues during build
• Excellent interpersonal skills to interface with engineering and manufacturing groups
• Strong engineering fundamentals in statics, mechanics of materials, process improvement/factory design, fastening and joining, machining
• Expert knowledge of common drilling and trim ops, other manufacturing processes, tools, inspection methods and GD&T

Nice to have

• Direct experience with forming, welding, drill, trim and fastening operations for aerospace products
• New product introduction of an aerospace hardware system into a manufacturing, test, and production system with proven success
• Experience in managing projects in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity
• Generous PTO and sick leave policy
• Parental leave
• Annual learning and development stipend

About the company

Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. They are developing the Terran R vehicle to deliver customer payloads to orbit.