Fluidstack
Sourcing Manager, Steel
Austin, TX. Posted a month ago
The role
The Sourcing Manager, Steel will own the steel category including structural steel and fabricated assemblies. You will source fabrication capacity, negotiate pricing, and qualify fabricators to support modular manufacturing and site builds.
What you will do
- Own the steel category including structural steel and fabricated assemblies
- Source fabrication capacity across regional shops
- Negotiate raw material and fabrication pricing
- Qualify fabricators on quality and capacity
- Manage load balancing across fabricators weekly
Required qualifications
- Sourced structural steel or fabricated steel assemblies at industrial volume
- Understand fabrication economics including material, labor, coatings, and freight
- Qualified fabrication shops and caught capacity overstatements
- Manage commodity exposure with indexing or hedging
- Work in non-climate-controlled environments including active construction areas, data halls, electrical and mechanical rooms, and outdoor spaces
- Lift, carry, push and pull up to 40 pounds on your own
- Sit, stand, walk, kneel, bend and crouch for long periods
- Wear required personal protective equipment
- Climb stairs and ladders
- Move around equipment, cable trays and uneven surfaces
Nice to have
- AISC-certified fabrication networks
- Modular construction
- Weld quality programs
- Logistics for oversize loads
About the company
Fluidstack aims to deliver tens to hundreds of gigawatts of compute by acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them. They focus on building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.