Strategic Sourcing Manager, Steel & Fabrication

Fluidstack; California City (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a hands-on Supply Chain professional focused on structural steel and fabrication for its rapid modular build program in the United States. You will own supplier relationships, qualify fabricators, and negotiate capacity and pricing to keep projects on schedule and within budget.

You will model lead times, manage commodity exposure, and drive continuous improvement across sourcing, fabrication, and logistics for large-scale data-center construction.

Qualifications

• You've sourced structural steel or fabricated steel assemblies at industrial volume.
• You understand fabrication economics: material, labor, coatings, and freight, and where each shop makes its margin.
• You've qualified fabrication shops and caught the capacity overstatements in their pitch.
• You manage commodity exposure with indexing or hedging rather than hoping.
• Bonus: AISC-certified fabrication networks. Modular construction. Weld quality programs. Logistics for oversize loads.

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

Sourcing steel

Fabrication sourcing

Cost negotiation

Supply chain planning

Capacity forecasting

Job description

Fluidstack is seeking a hands-on Supply Chain professional focused on structural steel and fabrication for its rapid modular build program in the United States. You will own supplier relationships, qualify fabricators, and negotiate capacity and pricing to keep projects on schedule and within budget.

You will model lead times, manage commodity exposure, and drive continuous improvement across sourcing, fabrication, and logistics for large-scale data-center construction.