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Category Manager, Electrical

Austin, TX💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Own the electrical category (switchgear, transformers, UPS, generators, busway) for a massive data center build, managing capacity reservations, dual-sourcing, and factory slot tracking to ensure supply chain velocity.

Role type

Senior Category Manager (Electrical Equipment)

Builds

Gigawatt-scale compute infrastructure (data halls)

Domain

Data Center Construction / Electrical Power Systems

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Sourcing major electrical equipment, factory capacity reservation, dual-sourcing non-interchangeable equipment, tracking production milestones, commercial risk management, expedite equipment through factories

Preferred skills

MV/HV equipment, utility-scale generation, OFCI programs, factory witness testing

Technologies

Switchgear, transformers, UPS, generators, busway

Responsibilities

Negotiate capacity reservations with electrical OEMs years ahead, dual-source major equipment classes managing design implications, track factory slots and production milestones supplier by supplier, convert reservations to orders as the pipeline firms

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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