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MEP & Structural Sourcing, Director

Fluidstack· Development
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Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA$262k - $328kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Director role leading MEP and structural sourcing for Fluidstack’s gigawatt-scale data center projects, building and running a cross-functional sourcing team, securing long-term capacity ahead of design, and keeping procurement off the critical path to accelerate delivery.

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

  • You've led sourcing for major electrical and mechanical equipment (switchgear, transformers, UPS, generation, chillers, CDUs) on large construction or data center programs.
  • You've managed a team of category managers or buyers and can show the results they delivered under you.
  • You've reserved factory capacity ahead of firm designs and managed the commercial risk that creates.
  • You've negotiated multi-year committed-volume agreements with OEMs and held them to price, lead time, and capacity.
  • You know the current lead-time reality of the electrical and mechanical markets by product class, not by rumor.
  • You've expedited equipment through a factory by knowing whom to call and what to trade.
  • You 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.

Skills

Required:Sourcing leadershipCategory managementCapacity reservation & multi-year agreementsDual-sourcing strategyProject scheduling risk managementTechnical reading of specs/drawings
Last updated Oct 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI

Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, delivering gigawatts of compute in 6 months. We're leading the deployment of Anthropic's $50B compute build out.

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