Head of Procurement & Supply Chain

Mission

TAR’s mission is to power intelligence for the world. We are building the world’s first off-grid power plant for data centers powered by renewable technologies.

We firmly believe AI should be built in the US for the benefit of all people. For that, power must be fast, clean and scalable. We are singularly focused on delivering GW-scale power faster than anyone has ever done, by rethinking every layer of the stack.

To deliver on this vision, TAR manufactures, deploys and operates off-grid energy assets with a renewable backbone. We vertically integrate to solve every bottleneck, from racking systems to power electronics to dispatch algorithms to on-site construction.

Leave your mark by powering the future of civilisation-scale energy infrastructure.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

Company

We are a team of seasoned operators run by founders who previously scaled a company to over 80 people and $350M in annual sales. We know how to operate and we move fast.

We are working directly with one of the largest compute providers to make our vision come true and plan to deploy 5GWs by 2028.

TAR is both a hardware and software company, we are building out massive, critical, physical infrastructure.

We operate on…

• High ownership. High Agency. Own project end-to-end. Great people don’t need to be managed.
• Speed. We achieve great things on incredible timelines. We always push ourselves to go faster.
• First principles. No ego. No hierarchy. Challenge every assumption.
• Passion. Solving the energy problem is one of the largest challenges that faces the world now and in the future. We put in long hours and hard work to solve this.

About the role

Speed-to-power is TAR’s entire thesis, and procurement is where that thesis lives or dies. You own getting every physical thing we need on site faster than anyone thinks is possible: power electronics, modules, BESS, gensets, transformers, switchgear, balance-of-plant, machinery, tooling, and the warehouses and lay-down space to stage it all. You are paid to find the workaround. When the quoted lead time is 60 weeks, your job is to come back with 30 by buying allocation, splitting orders, sourcing alternates, chartering freight, or whatever else it takes. This is a scrappy, relentless, get-it-delivered role, not a back-office sourcing function.

Responsibilities

• Own procurement end-to-end across every category: power electronics and inverters, modules, BESS, gensets, transformers, switchgear, BOP, heavy machinery, tooling, and facilities and warehouse space.
• Compress lead times aggressively. Secure factory allocation and production slots, work secondary and grey-channel supply where appropriate, split and parallelize orders, and expedite anything stuck.
• Manage long-lead items as a first-class workstream. Identify them early, place orders ahead of need, and secure equipment against the ITC safe-harbor deadline.
• Source FEOC-clean equipment where ITC eligibility is at stake, without losing schedule.
• Build and own supplier relationships. Negotiate price, terms, lead time, and delivery, and hold vendors to dates with active expediting.
• Own logistics: freight, customs and tariff strategy, routing, and on-site staging. Secure warehouse and lay-down space near site and run the inventory and staging plan.
• Partner with engineering on specs so we procure the right thing once, with the Project Director on schedule, and with the finance team on PO budget and cash flow timing.
• Maintain a supply-chain risk map: single-source exposure, tariff shifts, allocation risk. Build alternates and second sources before you need them.
• Issue and manage POs, supply contracts, and terms with clean documentation.

Qualifications

• 7 years in procurement, supply chain, or logistics in energy, construction, manufacturing, or heavy industrial, with direct ownership of equipment buying and delivery.
• Demonstrated track record compressing lead times or securing scarce, long-lead equipment under deadline pressure.
• Strong negotiation and vendor management. You build leverage and use it.
• Hands-on logistics experience: freight, customs, tariff and domestic-content navigation, expediting, and warehouse/staging.
• Enough technical literacy on electrical and mechanical equipment to procure to spec without constant hand-holding.
• Comfort in a fast, ambiguous, first-of-a-kind environment, with a bias for action and an instinct for the workaround.

Nice to have

• Solar, BESS, or gas-generation equipment supply-chain experience, including long-lead items like transformers, switchgear, and PCS.
• Live relationships with transformer, switchgear, PCS, and genset OEM allocation desks.
• Tariff and trade-remedy navigation (AD/CVD, Section 232), customs, and FEOC sourcing on real POs.
• Has bought into a sold-out transformer or turbine market and still hit the date.
• ITC safe-harbor and tax-equity timing fluency, enough to sequence buys for bankability.
• Texas and West Texas logistics experience, including securing rural lay-down and warehouse space.
• Hard-tech or vertically-integrated manufacturing supply-chain background (Tesla, SpaceX, First Solar, Apple), where compressing physical lead times under deadline is the daily job.
• Existing supplier and broker network across power equipment and heavy machinery.

Salary and Benefits

• Total compensation: $380-615K/year

Base salary: $220-300K

Milestone bonus: 15-25% of base, tied to lead-time-compression and safe-harbor-deadline milestones

Equity: $125-240K/year at TAR’s most recent valuation

• Up to $15K relocation bonus
• Unlimited PTO
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• $1K monthly stipend for meals