
Senior Supplier Industrialization Engineer
Relativity Space · Long Beach, CA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Industrial
- Travel
- 50%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior industrial role at Relativity Space (aerospace & defense) in Long Beach, CA.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, PPAP, APQP, ISO 9001, AS9100, Supplier quality
- Day to day
- about 50% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Industrial Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $127k–$190k.
Median of the low and high ends of 16 live postings that list pay, out of 44 industrial engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
California plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 43 other live industrial postings in California.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (8+ vs 6+)
Typical $127k–$190k, from 14 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 6+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Lean 52%
- ✓ New product launch 48%
- Six Sigma 43%
- ✓ Root cause 39%
- ✓ Supplier quality 34%
- SPC 30%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Machining, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is it more layout and capacity work, or time studies and standard work?
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This plant: Relativity Space in Long Beach
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Full description from Relativity SpaceAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
About the Role
- ◆Serve as the technical point of contact for rocket parts and assemblies, resolving manufacturing and quality issues to protect production schedules.
- ◆Lead new product introduction by selecting manufacturing methods, identifying suppliers, and developing scalable processes.
- ◆Conduct design for manufacturing (DFM) reviews and apply APQP principles to ensure efficient, high-quality production from early development stages. Leverage experience with Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), First Article Inspection Reports (FAIRs), and 8D problem solving.
- ◆Manage supplier sourcing and evaluations, issue corrective actions, and ensure compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, and NASA quality standards.
- ◆Create and develop specifications to communicate quality and manufacturing
requirements
across the supply base.
- ✓Analyze defect data, lead root cause investigations (e.g., 8D, PPAP, FAIR), and implement corrective actions to improve supplier performance.
Nice to haves but not required
- ✓Familiarity with high-volume inspection methods and data-driven acceptance methods
- ✓Strong knowledge of enterprise applications (i.e., PLM, ERP, MES) and proficient in data analysis
- ✓Self-starter that has demonstrated the ability to define and own a process from scratch and roll out that process through adept communication to a diverse team
- ✓Experience with New Product Development and PPAP implementation
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.
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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 Reliability team at Relativity Space ensures quality is built into every stage of the Terran R design and production process, embedding reliability from the very beginning. The team works directly with design, manufacturing, test, and launch teams to stay close to the hardware, understand constraints, and proactively shape decisions. As the program moves from development into production and scaled operations, this is the time to establish the right processes, controls, and inspections without slowing progress. The team plays a key role in balancing risk, fostering a culture of ownership, and making sure speed never comes at the cost of reliability. Success means creating a quality system that scales with the Terran R program and Relativity as a whole.
About You
- •Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, or related STEM field
- •You have 8+ years of experience in supplier quality or supplier development engineering, with in-depth knowledge of industry standards like AS9100, ISO 9001, and NASA quality standards and ERP/MRP system experience.
- •You have a strong technical and experiential knowledge of manufacturing processes for space-quality hardware, including forming, cutting, machining, and assembly of various metals like stainless and carbon steels.
- •You have experience with supplier quality processes such as Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), and First Article Inspection Reports (FAIRs) with a disciplined approach to problem solving, such as 8D methodology.
- •You have experience with New Product Development and PPAP implementation.
- •You are a self-starter who can define and own a process from scratch and roll it out to a diverse team, with willingness to travel up to 50% of the work week when needed.
Hiring Range
$122,000 — $167,000 USD
Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.
