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Sr Director, Mechanical Design Engineering, Tooling

Relativity Space 🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States of America

Onsite $251,000 - $307,000 Full-time Senior

This role involves leading and developing a high-performing team of tooling engineers to deliver solutions for safe, efficient, and repeatable production, while defining and executing the long-term tooling strategy across design, manufacturing, and operations. The director will also oversee the design, fabrication, and commissioning of complex tooling systems and manage the project portfolio to ensure readiness for production and development programs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a high-performing team of tooling engineers
  • Define and execute the long-term tooling strategy
  • Oversee design, fabrication, and commissioning of complex tooling systems
  • Manage the tooling project portfolio
  • Partner with design engineering and manufacturing teams

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in tooling design, manufacturing engineering, or related field
  • 12+ years of experience in tooling design, manufacturing engineering, or related field
  • 6+ years of people leadership experience
  • Expertise with CAD and PLM systems
  • Demonstrated experience leading large-scale tooling initiatives for complex hardware

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Generous PTO and sick leave policy
  • Parental leave
  • Annual learning and development stipend

Key Skills

Tooling design Manufacturing engineering CAD PLM systems Leadership Project management Collaboration Problem-solving Communication GD&T Tolerance analysis Materials Manufacturing processes

About Relativity Space

Relativity Space is on a mission to make access to space more reliable and routine. Our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, Terran R, 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.

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