Senior Environmental Engineer (NEPA)
New Yesterday
Job Description
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:
In this dynamic role you will be leading various projects to develop, implement, and monitor aspects of Relativity's environmental compliance program that support our test and launch teams. You will be at the forefront of navigating environmental policies for a cutting-edge industry. You will lead NEPA compliance as Relativity builds out our nationwide infrastructure. The perfect candidate will thrive under situations with an unchartered roadmap.
NEPA Compliance
- Prepare, manage, and review NEPA technical documents.
- Coordination with inter-departmental engineering teams, data gathering, conducting impact analyses, writing sections for NEPA documents, coordinating with sub-consultants and project team members, and interacting with regulatory agencies.
- Provide quality review of documents, with attention to completeness, legal adequacy, technical accuracy, and readability.
Environmental Compliance
- Develop, administer, and implement multi-media permitting and environmental programs (air, industrial wastewater, stormwater, hazardous materials/waste) pursuant to local, state, and federal requirements.
- Ensure measures from existing and future site operational regulatory requirements are fully implemented, tracked and reported.
- Identify and determine the need for permits or consultations that are required by the federal, state, and county for operations at Space Launch Complex-16.
About You:
- Bachelor's degree in environmental science, biology, engineering, planning, or a related field.
- 4+ years of environmental experience in launch operations, oil and gas, construction, chemical production, or a related industry.
- Excellent organizational skills with a strong ability to document and manage key project details.
- Proficiency in document preparation, report organization, and technical editing.
- Proven record of accomplishment in NEPA compliance, project management, technical writing, and research.
- Background in preparing or coordinating environmental studies related to air quality, noise, cultural resources, or natural resources to support NEPA compliance.
- Working knowledge of the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Section 404 permitting, Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, Section 4(f), and other state and federal environmental regulations.
- Experience with regulations and processes from the Federal Aviation Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and United States Space Force.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks effectively, and see projects through to completion with minimal supervision.
Successful candidates must clear a background check administered by the US government to obtain clearance for on-site work at our government partner location in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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.
- Location:
- Cape Canaveral
- Category:
- Energy And Environment
