Materials Manager

Fluidstack

• $110K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in supply chain management or procurement, specifically in capital equipment or industrial sectors.
  • Proven ability to expedite orders and negotiate under pressure to meet project deadlines.
  • Strong organization skills for maintaining transparent order-tracking systems accessible to all stakeholders.
  • Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and procurement documents to avoid discrepancies.
  • Experience managing multiple project sites and aligning procurement strategies across them without conflict.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for delivering concise reports and analyses.
  • Bonus: Experience in multi-site EPC or construction environments with knowledge in electrical or mechanical equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the live order tracker for all open purchase orders across global suppliers, ensuring visibility of manufacturing progress and delivery dates.
  • Expedite critical orders at risk of delays by renegotiating commitments and coordinating with logistics partners.
  • Conduct weekly and monthly supply chain reporting, analyzing performance metrics and presenting recovery plans to key stakeholders.
  • Act as a liaison between multiple project sites to align procurement needs and resolve potential conflicts early on.
  • Travel to vendor facilities and project sites to validate production progress and strengthen supplier relationships.

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package including salary and equity options.
  • Retirement or pension plan aligned with local standards.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) policy consistent with local practices.
Full Job Description
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. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
  • Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
  • Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
  • Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.


The Supply Chain Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • Supply compute at a scale of 10s to 100s of GWs, the largest build out of compute in history. Qualify and dual-source across every critical equipment category, with lead-time and capacity thresholds tied directly to the forward build pipeline.
  • Make supply chain the reason we build faster than anyone. Our modular build redefines speed in this industry, and it lives or dies on supply chain. Keep procurement permanently off the critical path so schedule compression stays our advantage, not our constraint.
  • Build the most accurate supply chain prediction modelling that exists. Use the frontier of AI to forecast lead times, demand, and disruption with a precision the industry has never had, and turn that foresight into a structural edge.

Role Scope
  • Own the live order tracker for all open purchase orders across global suppliers, covering manufacturing progress, inspection milestones, and contractual delivery dates across multiple concurrent project sites.
  • Expedite critical and at-risk orders before they hit the schedule: renegotiate delivery commitments, coordinate freight and logistics partners, and escalate to senior leadership when a vendor cannot recover on their own.
  • Run the weekly and monthly supply chain reporting rhythm: on-time delivery rates, lead time accuracy, vendor performance scores, root cause analysis on late orders, and recovery plans presented to project managers, engineering, and leadership.
  • Act as the supply chain liaison across multiple project sites, aligning procurement priorities so vendor capacity and logistics conflicts are resolved before they surface as site delays.
  • Travel to vendor facilities and project sites to validate manufacturing progress, close issues that cannot be resolved remotely, and build the supplier relationships that drive accountability on the next order.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You've personally expedited orders in capital equipment or industrial environments where slipping delivery dates had direct consequences for a project schedule, and you've negotiated revised commitments directly with vendors under pressure.
  • You maintain order-tracking systems well enough that any stakeholder can understand the status, risk, and recovery plan for every open PO without asking you to explain it.
  • You can read engineering drawings, specifications, and purchase order documentation well enough to catch scope discrepancies before they become vendor disputes.
  • You've coordinated across multiple project sites or workstreams simultaneously, keeping each location's material requirements on track without letting the sites compete for the same vendor capacity.
  • You write and communicate clearly enough to deliver a root cause analysis and recovery plan to a project manager or leadership team in one page.
  • Bonus: Multi-site EPC or construction environments. Commodity experience in electrical equipment, mechanical rotating equipment, or structural materials. International shipping, Incoterms, and customs compliance. Supply chain analytics and project management software.
Salary & Benefits
  • Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
  • Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [redacted] with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

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