Senior Steel Sourcing Manager - Industrial Fabrication

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI and is seeking a supply chain professional to own structural steel sourcing and fabrication capacity. You will qualify fabricators, model lead times, and manage pricing mechanisms to keep projects on track as the company scales its modular manufacturing and site builds.

The role requires deep understanding of fabrication economics, capacity constraints, and supplier risk management, with a focus on delivering speed and reliability

Qualifications

• Experience sourcing structural steel or fabricated steel assemblies at industrial volume.
• Understanding fabrication economics: material, labor, coatings, and margins.
• Ability to qualify fabrication shops and detect capacity overstatements.
• Ability to manage commodity exposure with indexing or hedging.

Responsibilities

• Own the steel category: structural steel and fabricated assemblies feeding the modular manufacturing line and site builds.
• Source fabrication capacity across regional shops so throughput scales with the build plan.
• Negotiate raw material and fabrication pricing with mechanisms that survive commodity swings.
• Qualify fabricators on quality and capacity, and manage the load balancing across them weekly.

Skills

Sourcing steel at scale

Fabrication economics

Fabrication shop qualification

Commodity hedging

Supplier negotiation

Forecasting lead times

Job description

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI and is seeking a supply chain professional to own structural steel sourcing and fabrication capacity. You will qualify fabricators, model lead times, and manage pricing mechanisms to keep projects on track as the company scales its modular manufacturing and site builds.

The role requires deep understanding of fabrication economics, capacity constraints, and supplier risk management, with a focus on delivering speed and reliability