Asset Maintenance Technician II, Second Shift

Long Beach, California, United States

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.

Our Asset Maintenance Team plays a crucial role in ensuring smooth operations and enhancing the longevity and efficiency of our assets. Through dedicated maintenance and proactive strategies, we aim to minimize downtime and maximize productivity. We take pride in our problem-solving approach, technical expertise, and commitment to excellence. In this environment, teamwork drives innovation, professional development is supported, and each contribution is valued in shaping the future of manufacturing.

This is a second-shift position with a standard schedule of Monday through Friday, 3:00 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. PT. The role is structured around a 50-hour workweek, including 10 guaranteed overtime hours each week. In addition to base pay, employees receive a 10% shift differential.

• Perform troubleshooting, diagnostics, repairs, and preventive maintenance on a wide variety of machinery, including CNC machines, circumferential stir welders, EDM machines, ultrasonic tanks, and other advanced manufacturing equipment.
• Utilize technical documentation, schematics, and hands‑on troubleshooting skills to diagnose electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic system failures.
• Support daily Asset Maintenance execution by helping coordinate technician workflow, prioritize tasks, and align work based on production needs, equipment availability, labor coverage, and urgency.
• Serve as a hands‑on Asset Maintenance Technician while also acting as a shift‑level mentor, resource, and first point of contact for operational questions and workflow escalations.
• Help maintain shift coverage, communicate daily priorities, and elevate blockers, safety concerns, equipment issues, or resource constraints to leadership as needed.
• Collaborate with production teams to address equipment issues, reduce downtime, and implement solutions that improve operational efficiency.
• Assist with the installation, commissioning, and maintenance of new equipment while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and operational standards.
• Support the execution of preventive maintenance schedules and help ensure maintenance activities are completed accurately, consistently, and on time.
• Track maintenance activity, equipment status, and recurring issues through appropriate systems, including CMMS or similar tracking tools.
• Help identify opportunities to improve maintenance processes, shift execution, troubleshooting consistency, equipment uptime, and overall team performance.
• Provide informal coaching, real‑time support, and day‑to‑day guidance to team members to help improve execution, consistency, and technical capability across the shift.
• Support KPIs and operational metrics related to equipment uptime, response time, preventive maintenance completion, safety, and maintenance execution.

• 2–3+ years of experience in industrial maintenance, equipment maintenance, or a related technical field, preferably within advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, or high-volume production environments.
• Strong electrical and mechanical troubleshooting capability, including experience with PLCs, motors, sensors, hydraulics, pneumatics, and machine control systems.
• Experience supporting, maintaining, or repairing CNC machines, automation systems, or…