Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Primary Structures

About the Role

• Provide Design for Manufacturing feedback to structures teams during the development phase and through the first prototype and flight builds.
• Collaborate closely with a diverse team of engineers specializing in design, manufacturing, and reliability, as well as internal production teams and external vendors, leveraging their collective expertise to drive progress.
• Cover the shop floor for all primary structure work center assembly work, clearing barriers and keeping production moving.
• Champion process improvements across multiple work centers to improve assembly operations and incorporate feedback and learnings from the first Terran R build
• Create work instructions, specifications, and best practices across multiple high-fidelity processes. Help standardize processes across the manufacturing team

About You

• Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, aeronautical, mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline
• 5+ years progressive and related experience required
• Strong history of supporting complicated assembly builds and capable of making risk decisions on a regular basis to disposition issues during build and keep production moving
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interface with engineering and manufacturing groups to understand process constraints and provide design inputs for improved manufacturability
• 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 haves but not required

• 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

Additional information

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.

Pay and benefits

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: $122,000—$182,000 USD

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