# Category Manager, Steel

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $239k – $278k/yr
**Skills:** structural steel sourcing, fabricated steel assemblies, fabrication economics, commodity hedging, fabricator qualification, aisc certification, modular construction, weld quality, oversize load logistics
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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