Materials Manager, Mechanical (Manufacturing)

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

Own sourcing for mechanical categories that feed manufacturing, including steel, fabrications, cooling components, and mechanical assemblies. Secure supply and lead times aligned to the build plan with capacity commitments that hold through demand spikes. Qualify and dual-source suppliers with engineering support (first articles, PPAP-style approvals, audits) and negotiate multi-year agreements that protect price, priority, and volume growth. Manage suppliers using performance data (on-time delivery, PPM, lead-time).

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Materials Manager, Mechanical (Manufacturing)

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Job Summary

Own sourcing for mechanical categories that feed manufacturing, including steel, fabrications, cooling components, and mechanical assemblies. Secure supply and lead times aligned to the build plan with capacity commitments that hold through demand spikes. Qualify and dual-source suppliers with engineering support (first articles, PPAP-style approvals, audits) and negotiate multi-year agreements that protect price, priority, and volume growth. Manage suppliers using performance data (on-time delivery, PPM, lead-time).
Location: Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Manufacturing & Production Operations
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own sourcing for mechanical categories feeding manufacturing (steel, fabrications, cooling components, and mechanical assemblies).
  • •Lock supply and lead times against the build plan with capacity commitments that survive demand spikes.
  • •Qualify suppliers technically with engineering, including first articles, PPAP-style approvals, and audits.
  • •Negotiate multi-year agreements holding price and priority as volumes grow 10x.
  • •Manage suppliers on data including on-time delivery, PPM, and lead-time performance.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 239,000 - 278,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Have sourced mechanical or fabricated categories for a manufacturer and owned supplier relationships.
  • •Read drawings and specs well enough to challenge a quote line by line.
  • •Qualify new suppliers under time pressure without skipping critical steps.
  • •Secure capacity in constrained markets.
  • •Manage suppliers using data such as on-time delivery, PPM, and lead-time performance.
Experience:Manufacturing
Skills:Extreme ownershipVelocityFirst principlesAnalytical thinkingSupplier management

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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