Buyer, Construction Subcontracts, Data Center Projects

What you'll do

As a Buyer, you will own subcontract packages for Giga data center projects from request to award. Reporting to the Procurement Manager, you will issue requests for proposal, level the bids, recommend the award, prepare the work order and manage the vendor through the job. You will work directly with subcontractors, and partner with Engineering and Construction to make scopes complete before they go out to bid. Legal owns the legal terms. You own the commercial outcome: scope, price, schedule and payment milestones.

Our procurement platform is AI-native. AI agents built on Claude and our Google Sheets and Drive data spine draft, log, compare and check. You will spend your time with vendors and project teams, and you will use the tools to move faster.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role for a buyer who can run several live packages at once on more than one project.

Where you'll work

This role is remote. We prefer candidates based in Texas and will consider candidates anywhere in the US. Expect about 20% travel to project sites and team onsites.

Responsibilities

Sourcing and Bidding

• Own subcontract packages from request to award: civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, fire protection and specialty trades.
• Build each request for proposal with Engineering and Construction, and check the scope, drawings and specifications for gaps before issue.
• Build the bidder list, issue the package, run the pre-bid meeting and manage bidder questions and addenda through one bids mailbox.
• Level bids on a common basis and write the award recommendation: price, schedule, qualifications and risk.
• Follow the competitive bidding and approval policy. Aim for three qualified bidders on each package.

Award and Work Orders

• Prepare the work order for each award from our standard form under the master services agreement.
• Negotiate commercial terms with the vendor: scope, price, schedule and payment milestones.
• Prepare the package for Legal review and signature, and track it to execution.
• Hand each executed award to the Procurement Analyst for budget coding and schedule of values set-up.
• Evaluate vendor change order requests for scope and price with Construction and Project Controls.

Vendor Management

• Build a qualified vendor pool for each commodity and region, ahead of each new project.
• Qualify vendors: NDA, master services agreement, insurance, bonding and safety.
• Run the post-award kickoff with each vendor, and track performance through the job.
• Keep vendor records current in our vendor database.

Scale With the Business

• Stand up subcontract procurement for new sites as Giga adds projects.
• Improve our templates, playbooks and tools as the portfolio grows.

Requirements

• 3 or more years of construction procurement or subcontract buying, running competitive bids for trade packages from request for proposal to award.
• Ability to read drawings, specifications and scopes of work, and to find gaps or conflicts before award.
• Experience leveling bids and writing award recommendations.
• Working knowledge of subcontracts, work orders, change orders, certificates of insurance, bonds and retention.
• Strong vendor relationships and a habit of following up without being asked.
• Bias to action. You keep packages moving on an aggressive schedule.

Bonus points

• Owner-side construction procurement on large capital programs, such as gigafactories, data center campuses, semiconductor fabs or energy projects.
• Experience with data center, substation, MEP or mission-critical construction.
• A Texas and Oklahoma subcontractor network.
• Hands-on use of AI tools in your daily work.
• Experience with NetSuite or another ERP, and with Autodesk Construction Cloud.