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Production Manager, Asset Maintenance

Relativity Space · Long Beach, CA

Level
Manager
Team
Reliability
Degree
Required (or equivalent experience)
Experience asked
7+ years
Industry
Aerospace & defense
Posted
30+ days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A management reliability role at Relativity Space (aerospace & defense) in Long Beach, CA. You will own maintenance execution and equipment reliability for manufacturing assets, ensuring safe, responsive, and disciplined support to production.

They ask for
7+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
Tools it names
Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, Root cause, Automation, CNC

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How this role compares

Against 89 other live reliability postings in California.

Base pay
Not listed in this posting

Typical $111k–$158k, from 51 postings that list pay.

Experience asked
More than usual (7+ vs 5+)

Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • ✓ Root cause 79%
  • FMEA 50%
  • ✓ New product launch 49%
  • ✓ Automation 39%
  • DOE 29%
  • SPC 24%

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Stands out: this posting asks for TPM, EHS / safety, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

It asks for 7+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone on the team first.

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About the Role

As an Asset Maintenance Manager, you will own maintenance execution and equipment reliability for manufacturing assets, ensuring safe, responsive, and disciplined support to production. You will lead and develop a team of supervisors, leads, and technicians, strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance systems, prioritize equipment recovery, and drive data-based reliability improvements.

  • ◆Lead asset maintenance operations across manufacturing equipment, driving equipment availability, preventive maintenance completion, rapid recovery, and safe execution.
  • ◆Manage, coach, and develop maintenance supervisors, leads, and technicians, establishing clear ownership, shift coverage, escalation paths, and performance expectations.
  • ◆Own maintenance performance through the CMMS and key metrics, including equipment downtime, response time, repair cycle time, backlog, overdue work orders, repeat failures, and preventive maintenance compliance.
  • ◆Partner with Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities, Supply Chain, and equipment manufacturers to troubleshoot failures, complete root cause analysis, and implement permanent corrective actions.
  • ◆Develop preventive and predictive maintenance, critical spare parts, and equipment reliability strategies based on asset criticality, failure history, and production risk.
  • ◆Manage maintenance spending, service vendors, repair priorities, and equipment lifecycle decisions while balancing safety, production needs, reliability, and total cost of ownership.

Nice to haves, but not required

  • ✓Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical maintenance leadership experience.
  • ✓Experience maintaining complex CNC machine tools, metrology equipment, automation, and supporting manufacturing systems.
  • ✓Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), TPM, Lean, or Six Sigma certification.
  • ✓Experience with CMMS, ERP/MRP, maintenance data analytics, spare parts optimization, and vendor or service contract management.

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 Asset Maintenance Team at Relativity is responsible for maximizing the availability, reliability, and safe operation of manufacturing equipment and critical production assets. We own preventive and corrective maintenance, troubleshooting, equipment recovery, spare parts strategy, and reliability improvements that keep production moving. The team partners closely with Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities, EHS, Supply Chain, and equipment manufacturers to reduce downtime, eliminate repeat failures, and improve equipment performance. In a fast-paced, high-accountability environment, we ensure critical assets are ready to support ambitious production and program milestones.

About You

  • •7+ years of experience in industrial maintenance, equipment reliability, or manufacturing operations within aerospace, automotive, precision manufacturing, or another high-reliability production environment.
  • •3+ years of experience managing maintenance teams, including direct supervision of supervisors or leads.
  • •Strong technical knowledge of troubleshooting and repair of complex manufacturing equipment, including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and machine control systems.
  • •Demonstrated experience building and executing preventive maintenance, CMMS, and reliability programs that improve equipment availability and reduce repeat failures.
  • •Proven ability to lead root cause analysis, coordinate OEM and vendor repairs, manage maintenance priorities, and support production in a fast-paced environment.

Hiring Range

$130,000 — $194,000 USD

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