Production Planner
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<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our&nbsp;Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch&nbsp;capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new&nbsp;opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond&nbsp;the known.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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 </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now&nbsp;is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and&nbsp;the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most&nbsp;meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none">About the Team:&nbsp;</span></strong></span></p>
<p>The Factory Test team is responsible for hardware testing in our Long Beach facilities. We use our breadth of experience and collaborative engineering approach to support everything from very large structural tests to precise valve actuation. To that end, we design, build, and operate all test assets in Long Beach from initial concept to test execution. If you enjoy working on a multi-disciplinary team with a broad mandate and want to put hands on hardware, then this is the team for you.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none">About the Role:</span></strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Your primary role will include leading integrated scheduling and resource planning, developing and maintaining production schedule and performing schedule baseline change control, collecting and tracking performance data and, conducting critical path and variance analyses. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You will also provide visibility, status, and regular reviews on schedule performance. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You will be expected to resource load, analyze, and optimize production planning schedules to meet required dates while collaborating with design, manufacturing and supply chain counterparts to status resources, critical procurements and impact to schedule, while performing “what if” scenarios, and helping to develop recovery plans. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop schedules and plans involving both internal resources, partner team resources, and external vendor resources.&nbsp;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Work with department leadership and production planners in other work centers to align on priorities for your product line(s) and collectively respond to changes when they arise. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Production demand planning duties, to provide actionable insights and drive improved schedule performance for our team. • Provide meaningful metrics and data to help demonstrate where data collection, measurement and analysis can be valuable in informing strategic decisions regarding resource allocation and planning.&nbsp;</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none">About You:</span></strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience with large project controls, project planning and IMS in a discrete manufacturing operation. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Proficiency with resource loaded schedules using Smartsheet, MS Project, or comparable scheduling software. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience managing multiple swim lanes, work centers or product lines with changing priorities. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong communication skills in technical work environments, ability to earn trust and maintain positive and professional relationships.&nbsp;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ability and willingness to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing work environment.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none">Nice to haves but not required:&nbsp;</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Previous experience in manufacturing, defense, or aerospace.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience with advanced functionality of scheduling software (e.g. Smartsheet automation, baseline/variance functionality, schedule slack calculations).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience with CPM, PERT, and /or schedule margin methodologies.</span></li>
</ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!&nbsp;To see some of the benefits &amp; perks we offer, please visit <a href="https://px.sequoia.com/relativityspace">here.</a></span></p></div><div class="title">Hiring Range:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$77,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$115,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.</strong></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at <a href="mailto:accommodations@relativityspace.com">accommodations@relativityspace.com</a>.</strong></span></em></p>
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