Materials Team Lead
Role Scope
Lead the materials management team: set priorities and workload across the materials managers and coach their expediting practice until every open order has an owner and a recovery plan.
Work the hardest vendor recoveries yourself, expediting capital equipment orders with direct schedule consequences and renegotiating delivery commitments the site schedule can actually absorb.
Own the consolidated root-cause and reporting rhythm to PMs and leadership, so every delivery miss has a documented cause, a corrective action, and a credible new date.
Manage 4-5+ suppliers, CMs, and ODMs across concurrent project sites, keeping capacity, lead times, and allocations from colliding between projects.
Read engineering drawings and specs against orders yourself and catch scope discrepancies before they become field problems.
Travel to vendor sites to verify production status and push recoveries in person when the situation demands it.
Owns the MEP & Structural Procurement Team which gets the physical equipment for gigawatt-scale AI data centers, including electrical, cooling, power, and structural components, delivered to site on schedule.
What We're Looking For
- 7-10+ years in global sourcing or supply chain for capital equipment or data center infrastructure
- You've led a team of buyers or materials managers, or been its clear senior anchor, setting priorities and coaching how they expedite
- You've personally expedited capital equipment orders where the slip had direct schedule consequences, and renegotiated the vendor's delivery commitment yourself, not through a subordinate
- You've managed 4-5+ suppliers, CMs, or ODMs across concurrent project sites
- You can read engineering drawings and specs well enough to catch a scope discrepancy the vendor missed
- You're comfortable traveling to vendor sites, and you know when a problem needs you on the floor rather than on a call
- You're a player-coach: you run the team's rhythm and still take the hardest recoveries yourself
Bonus
- Background in owner-furnished equipment, cooling and power components for AI data centers, or GPU platform procurement at a hyperscaler
Compensation Range
$208K - $263K