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Category Manager, Steel

Own the structural steel category for Fluidstack's massive AI compute buildout. Source and qualify fabricators at industrial scale, negotiate commodity-resistant pricing, balance capacity across shops, and manage hedging to keep modular data center construction off the critical path.

239k – 278k/yr
On-siteOther

About the role

Role Scope

Own the steel category: structural steel and fabricated assemblies feeding the modular manufacturing line and site builds.

  • Source fabrication capacity across regional shops so throughput scales with the build plan, not with one shop's backlog.
  • Negotiate raw material and fabrication pricing with mechanisms that survive commodity swings.
  • Qualify fabricators on quality and capacity, and manage the load balancing across them weekly.

What We're Looking For

  • You've sourced structural steel or fabricated steel assemblies at industrial volume.
  • You understand fabrication economics: material, labor, coatings, and freight, and where each shop makes its margin.
  • You've qualified fabrication shops and caught the capacity overstatements in their pitch.
  • You manage commodity exposure with indexing or hedging rather than hoping.

Bonus

  • AISC-certified fabrication networks.
  • Modular construction.
  • Weld quality programs.
  • Logistics for oversize loads.

Skills

structural steel sourcingfabricated steel assembliesfabrication economicscommodity hedgingfabricator qualificationaisc certificationmodular constructionweld qualityoversize load logistics

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