Manager, Manufacturing Quality and Materials

Relativity Space•Long Beach, CA

2d•$150,000 - $224,000

About The Position

Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Their Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. This role is within the Horizon Manufacturing Technologies business unit, which is advancing next-generation manufacturing for aerospace and beyond. The team operates at the frontier of manufacturing innovation, where creativity meets capability. This is an environment where cutting-edge R&D is put into production, industrializing advanced manufacturing capabilities to solve customer problems. As a member of the Horizon’s Robotics Team, you’ll work alongside welders, data scientists, and material scientists, creating an end-to-end additive manufacturing platform that serves a wide variety of applications. This role involves leading a multidisciplinary team of Manufacturing, Quality and Materials & Process Engineers building a culture of technical ownership, systemic problem-solving and accountability for delivering high-quality, conforming products. The team needs to have the technical capability, clarity, tools and ownership necessary to make sound decisions and successfully execute against product and customer requirements. The role will lead the development and implementation of robust, end-to-end manufacturing processes that translate customer and engineering requirements into repeatable workflows with appropriate process controls, documentation, inspection, and acceptance criteria. Ensuring manufacturing processes, material performance, and quality controls provide the technical confidence necessary to consistently deliver products that meet customer and quality requirements is key. This role will partner across Program Management, Design Engineering, Operations, and other functions to ensure technical decisions support success and on-time product delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field.
7+ years experience in complex manufacturing environments.
Demonstrated experience leading and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams, with the ability to establish clear ownership, accountability, and technical direction.
Strong understanding of manufacturing process development, process control, process capability, qualification, and continuous improvement.
Experience translating engineering, customer, and quality requirements into robust, repeatable manufacturing processes that consistently produce conforming hardware.
Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to identify systemic issues, reduce process variation, and build scalable solutions rather than relying on reactive problem-solving.
Ability to lead cross-functionally across Manufacturing, Quality, Materials, Design, Operations, and Program teams to drive technical decisions and deliver results.

Nice To Haves

Experience with additive manufacturing, welding, directed energy deposition, or other advanced manufacturing technologies.
Experience with metallic materials, material characterization, mechanical testing, metallurgy, or process qualification.
Experience developing manufacturing processes from early technology development through qualification and production.
Experience with statistical process control, process capability analysis, PFMEA, control plans, and other manufacturing risk-management methodologies.

Responsibilities

Lead a multidisciplinary team of Manufacturing, Quality and Materials & Process Engineers building a culture of technical ownership, systemic problem-solving and accountability for delivering high-quality, conforming products.
Ensure the team has the technical capability, clarity, tools and ownership necessary to make sound decisions and successfully execute against product and customer requirements.
Lead the development and implementation of robust, end-to-end manufacturing processes that translate customer and engineering requirements into repeatable workflows with appropriate process controls, documentation, inspection, and acceptance criteria.
Ensure manufacturing processes, material performance, and quality controls provide the technical confidence necessary to consistently deliver products that meet customer and quality requirements.
Partner across Program Management, Design Engineering, Operations, and other functions to ensure technical decisions support success, on-time product delivery.