At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity’s industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the possibilities of the human experience. This journey begins right here on Earth – where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, fulfills the growing demand for launch capacity, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing.
Your journey with us is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the human experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our vision into reality.
About the Team:
The Manufacturing team owns all process development, fabrication strategy, and production equipment for Terran R, our next generation, reusable rocket. This team has a wide variety of responsibilities – from factory floor layout, to developing complex tooling for novel processes, and interfacing with our vehicle engineering team to heavily influence design of the rocket. We leverage our deep expertise to translate engineering requirements into highly optimized production lines, working cross functionally to consistently enhance the vehicle program.
About the Role:
In this role, the Master Production Planner will be responsible for ensuring the production team is on track to hit department level goals. This role will receive inputs from work center level planners and will be responsible for determining bottlenecks that reduce rate capability, communicating them to partner teams, and working thru potential solutions. This role will require a proactive individual who can work cross functionally with many departments and communicate across the entire organization.
- Develop a rate base Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to ensure we are meeting the company targets on major assemblies (engine, stage) or high volume workcenters (valves).
- Coordinate, maintain, communicate, and present the critical path schedules with mitigation opportunities.
- Drive cross functional teams which will include planners, engineering, production, supply chain, and other key stakeholders to remove blockers that limit are ability to meet rate or hit schedule milestones
- Responsible for creating impact scenarios and sensitivity analysis to program schedule based upon high risk items
- Communicate project health to the executive team with recommendations on actions needed to achieve build targets
- Develop the department strategy for scaling production rates to meet our customer demands
About You:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent certifications in Finance, Business, Engineering, or Project Management
- 5+ years experience with large project controls, project planning, and IMS
- Skilled with resource loaded schedules using Smartsheet, MS Project, or comparable scheduling software
- Strong communication skills across all levels of the organization with the ability to drive cross-functional decisions
- Ability and willingness to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing work environment
Nice to haves but not required:
- Previous experience in scaling production from development to high rate operations
- Experience with advanced functionality of scheduling software (e.g. Smartsheet automation, baseline/variance functionality, schedule slack calculations)
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.
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.
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Relativity Space Long Beach, California, USA Office
We have two sites in Long Beach, CA's Space Beach: "The Wormhole," a 1M sq. ft. factory, once Boeing C-17's home. Nearby, "The Portal" supports Aeon R engine production for our Terran R launch vehicle.
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