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 Facilities team ensures that every operation across the site is “go” at all times, supporting everything from power and utilities to highly specialized machines like industrial 3D printers. Our 1 million square foot headquarters is complex: one structure, but functionally 20 mini factories under one roof. That complexity brings unmatched opportunities to grow your skills through cross-training and ownership of specialized systems. With rapid expansion and development of the facility, we’re helping build a truly state-of-the-art work environment. This team is deeply embedded in both planning and execution, brought in early to shape the physical assets that will support scaled operations.
About the Role:
- Experience with heavy equipment (forklift, reach-lift, man-lift, etc.)
- Ability to troubleshoot and problem solve electrical, mechanical, and/or plumbing systems.
- Maintain general consumable stock items.
- Organize and maintain equipment.
- Maintain general site surroundings and facilities.
- Site maintenance.
- Moves materials through use of equipment moving machinery such as hand trucks, forklifts, and golf carts.
- Provides recommendations for facilities improvements.
- Perform other related duties and projects as business needs require at direction of management.
This is a 2nd shift position with a standard schedule of 3:00PM-1:30AM, Monday through Friday, with a 10% differential on top of the base rate. Please note that this position is structured around a baseline expectation of a 50-hour workweek, which may include occasional overtime as needed to meet operational goals.
About You:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 5 years of work experience at the journeyman level or higher
- Reliable transportation and the ability to complete assigned shifts.
- Ability to lift and manipulate 50 pounds.
- Work from heights and on ladders as well as squatting, stooping and/or kneeling with a tool belt.
- Flexible schedule and ability to work non-standard shifts, overtime, and weekends as required.
- Lifting, standing, climbing, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, stretching, and carrying are generally required to perform the functions of this position.
- Periodic or frequent work in extreme outdoor environments: heat, cold, wind, rain
- Valid California state driver’s license and acceptable driving record required.
- Willingness and ability to pass in-house Forklift certification, required
Nice to haves but not required:
- 5-10years experience preferred.
- Prior experience in maintenance, construction, and/or repair
- Experience as a mechanic, carpenter
- Experience with inventory receiving and tracking.
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.
If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].
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Home to Terran R production, cutting-edge manufacturing, and advanced testing infrastructure, our headquarters in the Los Angeles metro area is shaping the future of aerospace. Designed for scalability, this facility is designed to support high-rate production and can adapt to customer demand.
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