Supervisor, Machine Shop, Quick Turn

Relativity Space•Long Beach, CA

6h•Onsite

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. 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. The Machine Shop team delivers high-precision, high-quality machined components that are critical to Terran R’s success. Here, you’ll combine technical skill with creativity, collaborating closely with engineering and design teams to drive better part designs and manufacturing solutions. You’ll work with best-in-class, premium machinery and get to bring our expanded, state-of-the-art machine shop to life to support the scale and pace of the Terran R program. This role offers the rare chance to see your craftsmanship directly integrated into flight hardware, making an immediate impact. With clear training pathways, you’ll have opportunities to advance from operating machines to programming them, growing your career alongside the program.

Requirements

7+ years of hands-on machining experience (CNC mill/turn, multi-axis, tight-tolerance aerospace work)
2+ years in a supervisory or lead role
Proven ability to lead and scale teams in fast-paced prototype settings—comfortable balancing urgency, quality, and safety while building structure within a newly developed department.
Excellent communicator and cross-functional partner who thrives in collaborative environments, capable of interfacing with design, quality, and supply chain teams
Hands-on leader with a strong ownership mindset – willingness to step in to solve problems in real time

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting rapid hardware development in a high-performance environment
Knowledge of ERP systems and production planning tools.
Experience developing and implementing key performance indexes

Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day operation for a quick turn / prototype / emergent operations supporting development programs for launch vehicles and propulsion systems
Supervise, mentor, and develop a team of machinists driving a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement while meeting aggressive build schedules
Partner cross-functionally with engineering, supply chain, and quality teams to deliver hardware critical to the business, mitigating supplier risk, keeping key development initiative on track, and supporting production hardware with fixturing
Support strategy development to architect a department that wins on lead time, key contributor to implement that strategy