Materials Manager, Mechanical (Manufacturing)

The role

This person will own sourcing for mechanical categories including steel, fabrications, cooling components, and mechanical assemblies. They will lock supply and lead times against the build plan and qualify suppliers technically with engineering.

What you will do

• Own sourcing for mechanical categories feeding manufacturing
• Lock supply and lead times against the build plan
• Qualify suppliers technically with engineering
• Negotiate multi-year agreements

Required qualifications

• Sourced mechanical or fabricated categories for a manufacturer
• Owned supplier relationships
• Read drawings and specs to challenge a quote line by line
• Qualified new suppliers under time pressure
• Secured capacity in constrained markets
• Manage suppliers on data including on-time delivery, PPM, and lead-time performance

Nice to have

• Steel and fabrication markets
• Cooling and thermal components
• Should-cost modeling
• Supplier development

About the company

Fluidstack aims to deliver tens to hundreds of gigawatts of compute by designing, building, and operating data centers. They focus on speed and scale to build infrastructure for AI.