MEP & Structural Sourcing, Director

The role

The Director will lead MEP and structural sourcing by owning electrical, mechanical, and structural steel categories end to end. This person will build and run a team of sourcing managers and negotiate capacity reservations and multi-year supply agreements with OEMs.

What you will do

• Lead MEP and structural sourcing for electrical, mechanical, and structural steel categories.
• Hire, develop, and hold accountable sourcing managers for each category.
• Set category strategies for the team to execute.
• Negotiate capacity reservations and multi-year supply agreements with OEMs.
• Qualify second sources across equipment classes and manage design implications with engineering.
• Track factory slots and production milestones to prevent delivery slips.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing to freeze equipment specs and feed supplier reality back into design.

Required qualifications

• Led sourcing for major electrical and mechanical equipment on large construction or data center programs.
• Managed a team of category managers or buyers.
• Reserved factory capacity ahead of firm designs and managed the commercial risk.
• Negotiated multi-year committed-volume agreements with OEMs.
• Knows current lead-time reality of electrical and mechanical markets by product class.
• Expedited equipment through a factory.
• Reads specifications and drawings well enough to challenge a spec or a price.

Nice to have

• Structural steel and modular skid packages
• MV/HV equipment
• Direct-to-chip liquid cooling
• OFCI programs
• Factory witness testing

About the company

Fluidstack acquires power, designs and builds data centers, and operates them to deliver compute infrastructure for AI. They focus on speed and scale to build civilization-scale infrastructure.