Sr Environmental Specialist
Relativity Space
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 EHS team carries a profound responsibility to keep people and the environments where we operate safe while we build the future. We're not here to slow things down; we're here to enable safe speed. At this stage in Relativity’s trajectory, you'll have the rare opportunity to shape how EHS is embedded in every process and decision, from the factory floor to the launch pad. We have a voice at every level, and we use it to build a culture where EHS isn’t just about compliance, but rather a shared responsibility amongst all employees.
About the Role:
As a Senior Environmental Specialist at Relativity Space, you will play a key role in developing, implementing, and managing environmental compliance programs across our Long Beach manufacturing facilities. In this dynamic position, you will lead strategic projects that support the company’s broader Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) initiatives, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements while supporting our mission in aerospace innovation.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Develop and support multi-media environmental permitting to ensure compliance with environmental regulations (air emissions, hazardous materials, hazardous waste, wastewater, etc.).
- Support ongoing environmental data collection and reporting efforts for existing environmental permits.
- Collecting soil, industrial wastewater, and stormwater samples.
- Monitor pollution prevention activities to ensure compliance with CUP and LARWQCB requirements.
- Conduct environmental incident investigations.
- Engage with other departments to provide insightful perspectives on the issues, challenges and opportunities within Relativity’s environmental strategies and initiative.
About You:
- Bachelor’s of Science in environmental engineering, chemical engineering, environmental sciences, public health, or related discipline.
- Strong project management fundamentals, ability to prioritize competing deadlines and deliverables.
- Strong collaborator with demonstrated experience bringing together cross-functional teams.
- Experience working in a manufacturing environment is a plus.
- Knowledge in any of the following areas is a plus:
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software
- PowerBI
- Atlassian Project Management Software (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket,
etc.)
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.
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! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
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.