Materials Manager, Mechanical (Manufacturing)
Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA$199k - $262kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Role focused on sourcing and supplier management for mechanical manufacturing categories (steel, fabrications, cooling components, and mechanical assemblies) to support high-scale AI compute infrastructure buildouts.
Responsibilities
- Own sourcing for mechanical categories feeding manufacturing: steel, fabrications, cooling components, and mechanical assemblies.
- Lock supply and lead times against the build plan, with capacity commitments that survive demand spikes.
- Qualify suppliers technically with engineering: first articles, PPAP-style approvals, and audits.
- Negotiate multi-year agreements that hold price and priority as volumes grow 10x.
Qualifications
- You've sourced mechanical or fabricated categories for a manufacturer and owned the supplier relationships.
- You read drawings and specs well enough to challenge a quote line by line.
- You've qualified new suppliers under time pressure without skipping the steps that matter.
- You've secured capacity in constrained markets.
- You manage suppliers on data: on-time delivery, PPM, and lead-time performance.
- Bonus: Steel and fabrication markets. Cooling and thermal components. Should-cost modeling. Supplier development.
Skills
Required:Sourcing and supplier management for mechanical categoriesTechnical reading of drawings and specsSupplier qualification under time pressure
Last updated Sep 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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