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Senior Facilities Technician, Weekend Shift

Relativity Space · Long Beach, CA

Level
Technician
Team
Reliability
Experience asked
5+ years
Industry
Aerospace & defense
Posted
30+ days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A technician-level reliability role at Relativity Space (aerospace & defense) in Long Beach, CA.

They ask for
5+ years

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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026

Maintenance Technician roles in California: typical posted base $72k–$110k.

Median of the low and high ends of 6 live postings that list pay, out of 93 maintenance technician openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 93 other live reliability postings in California.

Base pay
Not listed in this posting

Typical $72k–$110k, from 7 postings that list pay.

Experience asked
More than usual (5+ vs 3+)

Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • Welding 34%
  • PLC 33%
  • Team leadership 33%
  • Tooling 32%
  • Automation 20%

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It asks for 5+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

At a glance

Lifts up to 50 lbs

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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.
  • ◆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.

Nice to haves but not required

  • ✓5-10 years 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.

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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 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.

This is a weekend-shift position with a standard schedule of Friday through Monday, 5:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PT, including 8 guaranteed overtime hours each week. In addition to base pay, employees receive a 10% shift premium.

About You

  • •High school diploma or equivalent
  • •5 years of work experience at the journeyman level or higher
  • •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.
  • •Willingness and ability to pass in-house Forklift certification, required

Hiring Range

$32.80 — $49.20 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.

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