Materials Manager, Manufacturing Facilities

The role

This person will own global sourcing for manufacturing facilities including equipment, fit-out, and services. They will negotiate supplier agreements and qualify critical categories to support factory operations.

What you will do

• Own global sourcing for manufacturing facilities including equipment, fit-out, and services
• Negotiate supplier agreements across capital equipment, MRO, and facility services
• Qualify and dual-source critical categories
• Drive total cost including freight, spares, uptime, and terms

Required qualifications

• Sourced capital equipment or industrial categories at scale and closed deals
• Built supplier redundancy that got tested and held
• Negotiate from a should-cost model
• Managed suppliers through a factory launch or major ramp
• Contracts anticipate failure modes such as delays, quality, and support

Nice to have

• Manufacturing launches
• Equipment categories such as weld, CNC, and material handling
• International supply bases
• ERP procurement

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.