MEP & Structural Sourcing, Director

About the role

Fluidstack exists to make humanity more free by delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. The company acquires power, designs and builds data centers, and operates them with teams spanning hardware and software. How we operate: be a barrel – full autonomy, own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role; insane urgency; reason from first principles; love of the game; build something that actually matters.

The Supply Chain team keeps speed real by getting the longest-lead equipment bought, built, and delivered before the schedule needs it. Key problems include supplying gigawatt-scale compute, qualifying and dual-sourcing every critical equipment category with lead-time and capacity thresholds tied to the forward build pipeline, making supply chain the reason we build faster than anyone, keeping procurement off the critical path, and building the most accurate supply chain prediction modelling using AI to forecast lead times, demand, and disruption.

Responsibilities

• Lead MEP and structural sourcing: own the electrical, mechanical, and structural steel categories end to end (switchgear, transformers, UPS, generators, busway, chillers, CDUs, pumps, piping packages, and steel).
• Build and run the team: hire, develop, and hold accountable the sourcing managers for each category, and set the category strategies they execute.
• Lock in capacity years ahead: negotiate capacity reservations and multi-year supply agreements with OEMs, converting reservations to orders as the pipeline firms.
• Dual-source the critical path: qualify second sources across equipment classes whose products are not interchangeable, and manage the design implications with engineering.
• Keep procurement off the critical path: track factory slots and production milestones supplier by supplier, and escalate before a slipped delivery becomes a slipped data hall.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing: freeze equipment specs early enough to buy at the lead times the market gives, and feed supplier reality back into design decisions.

Qualifications

• Led sourcing for major electrical and mechanical equipment (switchgear, transformers, UPS, generation, chillers, CDUs) on large construction or data center programs.
• Managed a team of category managers or buyers and can show the results they delivered under you.
• Reserved factory capacity ahead of firm designs and managed the commercial risk that creates.
• Negotiated multi-year committed-volume agreements with OEMs and held them to price, lead time, and capacity.
• Know the current lead-time reality of the electrical and mechanical markets by product class, not by rumor.
• Expedited equipment through a factory by knowing whom to call and what to trade.
• Read specifications and drawings well enough to challenge a spec or a price with substance.
• Bonus: structural steel and modular skid packages; MV/HV equipment; direct-to-chip liquid cooling; OFCI programs; factory witness testing.

Pay

Compensation Range: $262K - $328K