Materials Manager, Spares (Manufacturing)

Fluidstack•Austin, TX

81d•$199,000 - $262,000

About The Position

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, focusing on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else. This involves rethinking every layer of the stack, from acquiring power to designing, building, and operating data centers. The company operates with a philosophy of full autonomy, insane urgency, reasoning from first principles, and a deep commitment to building something that matters. The Supply Chain Team is central to this mission, working on problems such as supplying tens of gigawatts of compute, qualifying and dual-sourcing critical equipment, and building the most accurate supply chain prediction modeling using AI. The Materials Manager, Spares role is crucial for ensuring the continuous operation of this infrastructure by managing the global spares sourcing program for critical datacenter equipment.

Requirements

Built or run a spare parts or MRO sourcing program for capital equipment where downtime carried a real cost, and set the stocking levels yourself.
Qualified and dual-sourced suppliers across multiple equipment categories, and pulled a second source online fast when a primary vendor slipped.
Negotiated consignment, vendor-managed inventory, or stocking agreements that put critical parts on site ahead of demand rather than after a failure.
Tied spares inventory decisions to failure data, criticality tiers, and lead times, not to gut feel or blanket safety stock.
Worked directly with reliability and maintenance teams to forecast parts demand off an installed base and a maintenance schedule.
Kept clean records of parts, suppliers, pricing, and lead times, and did not lose a critical spare in a spreadsheet.

Nice To Haves

Datacenter or mission-critical facility equipment such as chillers, CDUs, switchgear, and generators.
Global supplier networks across multiple regions.
ERP or inventory systems such as NetSuite, SAP, or Oracle.
Mechanical or electrical spares for high-availability infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Build the global spares sourcing program for critical datacenter equipment such as chillers, CDUs, switchgear, generators, and pumps across a fleet scaling to tens of gigawatts.
Qualify and dual-source spare parts suppliers across every critical equipment category, tying min and max stocking levels and reorder points to failure rates and equipment criticality tiers.
Negotiate spares pricing, lead-time commitments, and consignment or vendor-managed inventory terms that keep replacement parts on site before a failure takes a hall offline.
Set the spares stocking strategy across sites and regional depots so a single critical failure never idles live compute waiting on a part.
Partner with reliability and site operations to forecast spares demand from the maintenance schedule and installed base, and keep the parts catalog ahead of every new equipment generation.