Materials Manager, Spares (Manufacturing)

FluidStack
Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 239,000 - 278,000 annuallyFunction: Manufacturing & Production OperationsSkills: ["Extreme ownership","Velocity","First-principles thinking"]

Build and scale a global spares sourcing program for critical datacenter equipment, including chilling systems, CDUs, switchgear, generators, and pumps. Qualify and dual-source suppliers, negotiate pricing and lead-time commitments, and set stocking/reorder strategies tied to failure rates and equipment criticality. Partner with reliability and site operations to forecast demand from maintenance schedules and installed base so critical parts stay available before downtime.

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FluidStack
FluidStack
1 month ago

Materials Manager, Spares (Manufacturing)

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Job Summary

Build and scale a global spares sourcing program for critical datacenter equipment, including chilling systems, CDUs, switchgear, generators, and pumps. Qualify and dual-source suppliers, negotiate pricing and lead-time commitments, and set stocking/reorder strategies tied to failure rates and equipment criticality. Partner with reliability and site operations to forecast demand from maintenance schedules and installed base so critical parts stay available before downtime.
Location: Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Manufacturing & Production Operations
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build the global spares sourcing program for critical datacenter equipment across a fleet scaling to tens of gigawatts.
  • •Qualify and dual-source spare parts suppliers across critical equipment categories and define stocking levels and reorder points based on failure rates and criticality tiers.
  • •Negotiate spares pricing, lead-time commitments, and consignment or vendor-managed inventory terms to keep replacement parts on site before failures.
  • •Set spares stocking strategy across sites and regional depots so critical failures don’t idle live compute waiting on parts.
  • •Partner with reliability and site operations to forecast spares demand from maintenance schedules and installed base and keep the parts catalog current.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 239,000 - 278,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Have built or run a spare parts or MRO sourcing program for capital equipment where downtime carried real cost and you set stocking levels.
  • •Qualify and dual-source suppliers across multiple equipment categories, and stand up a second source quickly when a primary vendor slips.
  • •Negotiate consignment, vendor-managed inventory, or stocking agreements that place critical parts on site before demand or failure.
  • •Tie spares inventory decisions to failure data, criticality tiers, and lead times rather than gut feel or blanket safety stock.
  • •Work with reliability and maintenance teams to forecast parts demand from an installed base and maintenance schedule.
Skills:Extreme ownershipVelocityFirst-principles thinking
Tech Stack:NetSuiteSAPOracle

Company Brief

FluidStack
Builds and deploys large-scale GPU cloud infrastructure for AI labs, enterprises and governments, providing high-performance AI training and inference capacity and rapid data-center deployment services.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2017
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