Supply Chain Engineer in United

Job Description

Supply Chain Engineer

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Remote, up to 50% travel

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About the Company

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For the first time in decades, power demand growth in the US has jumped 5x driving multi-year lead times for critical power infrastructure. The Company converts and deploys jet engines into modular gas turbine power packages at scale now, not in 3 years. We are building and testing our first systems outside of Reno, Nevada next to Lake Tahoe and are backed by top-tier venture capital investors.

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The Role

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We are hiring a Supply Chain Engineer to build the Company's supply chain for including generator, gearbox, skids, enclosures, controls, electrical, exhaust, emissions controls, etc. Your job is to build a supply chain that scales to 1GW+ worth of units per year on spec, on time, and at a cost that works. This role requires excellent technical, strategic, and commercial experience. You will sit with our engineers to understand what a component and subsystems have to do, then get on a plane to find who can build it, qualify them, negotiate the deal, and paper it in a Master Supply Agreement. We are looking for someone comfortable reviewing a drawing with an engineer in the morning, walking a fabrication shop in the afternoon, and negotiating terms with a partner the next day. You will be the Company's first dedicated supply chain hire, building the function from scratch and determining where and what capability to add. This is a high trust role where you will be given a bottomless credit card and a mandate of “turn the problems into answers that scale”.

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What You'll Own

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• Supplier discovery and qualification: find and vet suppliers for all components, capability, capacity, quality system, financial health, and how they will partner with the Company as we grow

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• Sourcing and negotiation: run RFQs, build should-cost models, and negotiate price, lead time, capacity commitments, and terms to close multi-million dollar deals

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• Master Supply Agreements: lead MSAs and long-term agreements with our major suppliers, owning the commercial substance and ensuring it meets technical and operational requirements

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• Design for supply: work with our design engineers early on make versus buy, supplier-ready drawings and specs, standard parts, and second sources, so more than one shop can build the design

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• Industrialization: from first articles for the Company to repeatable and scalable production. You will develop article inspections, factory acceptance tests, and corrective actions; engineering is your internal customer

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• Supplier development and performance: audits and site visits, delivery and quality tracking, escalation when a supplier slips, and priority capacity locked in before we need it

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• Market intelligence: know who makes what, where capacity is tight, and where lead times are heading, so the Company locks in partners and orders early

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You Might Be a Great Fit If

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• You have 6+ years in supplier development, strategic sourcing, or industrialization for physical hardware, and have built a supplier base from scratch at least once

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• You have an engineering degree or equivalent technical depth. You can read a drawing, walk a shop floor, and tell whether a supplier can actually build the part

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• You have negotiated and closed supply agreements worth millions of dollars with industrial suppliers, including MSAs or long-term agreements

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• You have taken parts or assemblies from prototype to production and lived through what broke along the way: late tooling, bad first articles, suppliers who overpromised

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• You have worked with fabricators, machine shops, and packagers on heavy hardware: weldments, skids, enclosures, rotating equipment, or electrical gear

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• You operate with minimal structure, are comfortable being the only supply chain person in the room, and would rather be at the supplier than on a call with them

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• Your title today might be Supplier Development Engineer, Supplier Industrialization Engineer, or Strategic Sourcing Manager

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Bonus Points for any of

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• Sourcing experience with generators, gearboxes, switchgear, transformers, or turbine packages

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• Time at a hardware startup through rapid scaling (aerospace, defense, EV, energy), or at an OEM or packager building gensets, turbines, or compression equipment

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• Familiarity with API, IEEE, ASME, and ISO standards for power equipment and manufacturing

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