About Us:
To achieve net zero by 2050, carbon removal is imperative.
At Sustaera, we are on a mission to restore the carbon balance. We’ve developed a carbon dioxide removal technology that uses renewable energy to remove carbon dioxide from the air, permanently. We’re a team of experienced chemical, process, mechanical, and climate engineers dedicated to bringing this technology to scale and remove 500 million tons of CO2 by 2040. We’re backed by some of the leading climate tech investors that include Breakthrough Energy Ventures and The Grantham Foundation and have already established early partnerships with Stripe and Shopify along with being a recent winner of the XPRIZE milestone award. We’ve just kicked off our pilot project to capture up to 300 tons of carbon dioxide per year targeting completion in 2023. Come join us!
About the role:
Sustaera is looking for a Purchasing Manager to lead all sourcing and purchasing for key equipment required for our pilot and commercial facilities. This role will also include managing vendor relationships and tracking goods and services and will work with the Development, Deployment and Commercialization teams. The Purchasing Manager will be accountable to manage project buying across a portfolio of ~$2-15 MM projects.
Requirements:
BS in supply chain management, logistics, or business administration. Prior experience in procurement and purchasing and start-up experience preferred. Work on-site at Cary, North Carolina Headquarters required.
What you will bring:
- 8+ years of experience purchasing / sourcing materials and services for manufacturing organizations, including engineered-to-order and non-commodity materials
- Demonstrated ability to generate negotiated savings versus project budgets
- Ability to collaborate with technical teams to ensure alignment of key sourcing priorities in support of differentiated products
- High degree of organization to track outstanding purchase orders and identify expediting priorities
- Comfort working in a start up environment, and ability to build scalable buying processes that grow with the company
- Strong process ownership, with a continuous improvement mindset
- Experience managing vendors to specific timelines, key performance indicators (KPIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- RF(X) experience that includes RFIs, RFPs and spend model development. Extensive experience analyzing competitive quotations and making purchase recommendations from a combination of supplier cost, schedule, and technical dimensions
- Experience with contract development, management, and implementation; including prioritization of terms and conditions relative to level of business risk
- Supply market analysis experience
What you will do:
- Report to Sustaera Project Director
- Collaborate with project team to achieve on time, under budget delivery of projects
- Serve as Single Point Contact with vendors, ensuring that technical team interactions are aligned with contract and vendor relationship priorities
- Support the identification of new vendors as needed
- Negotiate with suppliers and vendors to secure advantageous terms
- Monitor service contracts for cost impact from scope creep or lack of definition
- Review existing contracts with suppliers and vendors to ensure on-going feasibility
- Build and maintain long-term relationships with vendors and suppliers.
- Create and approve purchase orders and track delivery of goods and services.
- Perform expediting as needed
- Perform risk assessments on potential contracts and agreements
- Issue Supplier Corrective Action Reports as needed, for underperformance
- Prepare procurement reports as requested
- Support general consumables buying as requested
- Develop receiving procedures
Why join us:
- We’ve done this before. Our founding team has successfully built up to 5000 ton per year carbon capture plants and completed over 30 R&D projects in the CO2 capture space. We have a combined experience of over 125 years to learn from, and each new team member makes that foundation stronger.
- We have a strong network of industry, public, and private partners that enable our future. Sustaera technology was seeded with DOE funding and we continue to have regular collaboration at multiple levels of critical regulatory bodies. Our investors, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and The Grantham Foundation are the gold standards in climate partners. The interest in our technology continues to grow monthly!
- We love learning from each other and learning together. Our team is filled with folks with a wide-range of experiences and expertise and no question is ever too crazy. We are passionate about learning, and challenging our assumptions. Our employees grow and develop, and we create next generations of leadership.
- No day is the same. As a company working on a transformational technology, every day is a new day. We adapt and move with agility to solve the challenges of the day, month, and year.
- We are building a product that matters. We believe that it is possible to build a viable commercial product and healthy company that also helps the planet. These characteristics are not mutually exclusive.
- We love what we do. For many employees here, this is the culmination of all their previous work and academic experiences to help solve our global emissions problem. For others, the call to climate work came more recently, and we’re happy to play that role.
- We believe that results matter. We hold ourselves accountable for progress and outcomes. We measure our progress toward goals, celebrate our successes, and learn from our setbacks.
- We believe that we will make a dent in tackling climate change. Humanity has come together at multiple points in its history to solve incredibly daunting and complex challenges. This is the challenge of our generation, and we’re up for it together.
Perks & Benefits
- Flexible hours and paid time off
- Stock option compensation
- Medical and dental insurance
- 401K match
- Fun company outings
Equal Opportunity Employer
Sustaera an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
COVID-19 Policy
Sustaera will inquire about candidate COVID-19 vaccination status. As a condition of employment, Sustaera requires all employees to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to work at Sustaera locations. Candidates who cannot get vaccinated for medical or religious reasons may be eligible for an accommodation and should notify the hiring manager upon applying if they wish to request accommodation. Requests for accommodation will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. In the event that masking is mandated at a work location (including client/partner locations and Sustaera locations) we expect all employees to comply with these required safety protocols.
Visa Sponsorship
Only candidates authorized to work in the US will be considered.
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