Sourcing Manager, Industrial Steel & Fabrication

Fluidstack; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 199,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale AI-era infrastructure and seeks a hands-on supply chain leader focused on steel and fabrication. You will own the steel category, secure regional fabrication capacity, and negotiate pricing while ensuring supply partners meet quality and capacity standards.

This role requires sourcing industrial-scale steel, understanding fabrication economics, and proactively managing supplier relationships to keep schedules on track.

Qualifications

• You've sourced structural steel or fabricated steel assemblies at industrial volume.
• You understand fabrication economics: material, labor, coatings, and margin.
• You've qualified fabrication shops and caught capacity overstatements.
• You manage commodity exposure with indexing or hedging.
• Bonus: AISC-certified fabrication networks, modular construction, weld quality programs, oversize load logistics.

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, not with one shop's backlog.
• 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

Steel sourcing

Fabrication economics

Vendor qualification

Commodity hedging basics

Job description

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale AI-era infrastructure and seeks a hands-on supply chain leader focused on steel and fabrication. You will own the steel category, secure regional fabrication capacity, and negotiate pricing while ensuring supply partners meet quality and capacity standards.

This role requires sourcing industrial-scale steel, understanding fabrication economics, and proactively managing supplier relationships to keep schedules on track.