Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Primary Structures

Relativity Space•Long Beach, CA

1d•$122,000 - $182,000

About The Position

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer supports the development and production of Terran R’s primary structures. The role provides Design for Manufacturing feedback to structures teams during development and through the first prototype and flight builds. It works closely with design, manufacturing, and reliability engineers, internal production teams, and external vendors to solve production challenges and make progress. The engineer supports primary-structure assembly work on the shop floor by clearing barriers and keeping production moving. They improve processes across multiple work centers, incorporate lessons from the first Terran R build, create work instructions, specifications, and best practices for high-fidelity processes, and help standardize manufacturing processes. The Stage Manufacturing team builds Terran R’s primary structures and continually develops and improves the systems and factory processes used to build the vehicle.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, aeronautical, mechanical engineering, or another engineering discipline.
At least 5 years of progressive, related experience.
Strong history supporting complicated assembly builds and ability to make regular risk decisions to disposition build issues and keep production moving.
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work 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 and factory design, fastening and joining, and machining.
Expert knowledge of common drilling and trim operations, other manufacturing processes, tools, inspection methods, and GD&T.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience with forming, welding, drilling, trimming, and fastening operations for aerospace products.
Experience introducing an aerospace hardware system into manufacturing, test, and production systems, with proven success.
Experience managing projects in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Provide Design for Manufacturing feedback to structures teams during development and through the first prototype and flight builds.
Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and reliability engineers, internal production teams, and external vendors.
Support primary-structure assembly work on the shop floor, clearing barriers and keeping production moving.
Champion process improvements across multiple work centers to improve assembly operations.
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.