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.
About the job
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 Sourcing, Fabricated Steel Assemblies, Fabrication Economics, Commodity Hedging, Fabricator Qualification, Aisc Certification, Modular Construction, Weld Quality, Oversize Load Logistics
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