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This individual will establish and maintain accurate, centralized visibility into spare parts and replacement equipment across project sites, warehouses, and third-party storage locations, and will develop the systems, processes, controls, and replenishment strategies required to ensure critical materials are available when needed. This is a key operational role supporting the reliability and performance of Scale's growing fleet.\nThis role will report to our Senior Director of Procurement. The role is based at our Headquarters in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Key responsibilities will include:\nResponsibilities:\nOwn inventory management across Scale's nationwide portfolio of operating assets, project sites, warehouses, and third-party storage locations.\nDevelop, implement, and maintain a centralized inventory database and tracking system that provides accurate visibility into inventory quantity, location, status, ownership, availability, and movement.\nEstablish and maintain inventory control standards, including item master structure, stocking policies, minimum/maximum levels, reorder points, safety stock, and critical-spares requirements.\nPartner with Operations & Maintenance and technical teams to forecast spare-part and replacement-equipment requirements based on the installed equipment base, preventative maintenance schedules, failure history, equipment criticality, and vendor lead times.\nManage replenishment and purchasing of spare parts and replacement equipment, including urgent and emergency requirements, to minimize asset downtime.\nMaintain traceability of serialized and high-value equipment and manage inventory transfers between project sites, warehouses, and other storage locations.\nEstablish cycle-counting and physical-inventory procedures; investigate and reconcile inventory discrepancies and maintain high levels of inventory accuracy.\nMonitor obsolete, excess, slow-moving, and unavailable inventory and recommend disposition, redeployment, or sourcing actions.\nManage day-to-day inventory relationships and processes with equipment manufacturers, distributors, warehouses, and third-party logistics providers.\nDevelop and maintain inventory KPIs and reporting, including inventory accuracy, stockouts, critical-spares coverage, replenishment lead time, excess inventory, emergency purchases, and inventory value.\nLead continuous improvement of Scale's inventory management systems and processes, including integration with ERP, asset-management, purchasing, and service workflows.\nCoordinate across Procurement, Operations & Maintenance, Engineering, Finance, and project teams to ensure inventory supports reliable operation of Scale's assets.\nThe Ideal Candidate\n5-8+ years of progressively responsible inventory, materials management, spare-parts, or related experience, preferably supporting distributed field operations or multiple locations.\nDemonstrated experience owning inventory controls and processes, including item masters/SKUs, stocking policies, min/max levels, reorder points, safety stock, cycle counts, and physical inventory reconciliation.\nHands-on experience implementing, improving, or administering inventory management, ERP, CMMS, or asset-management system; strong ability to translate operational requirements into a scalable system and database structure.\nStrong analytical and reporting skills, including advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience developing inventory KPIs and management reporting.\nExperience managing inventory across multiple warehouses, project sites, service locations, and/or third-party logistics providers.\nExperience with serialized equipment, high-value components, spare-parts planning, replenishment, and emergency replacement requirements.\nStrong understanding of mechanical and electrical equipment and parts; experience in power generation, renewable energy, utilities, industrial service, field service, or a similar asset-intensive environment is strongly preferred.\nExperience working with equipment manufacturers, distributors, warehouses, subcontractors, and service technicians.\nExcellent organization, communication, and cross-functional coordination skills, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.\nA process-oriented mindset with a demonstrated ability to build structure, improve data quality, establish controls, and drive accountability across an organization.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4576,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Energy & Utilities","Smart Grid","Energy Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-04T21:56:59Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":53,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.526,"p_room":1,"age_days":10,"expected_fill_days":35,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-05T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/scale-microgrids-inventorymaterial-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/scale-microgrids-inventorymaterial-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-06T01:24:30Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1961,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3039,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2301047},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2301047"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fscale-microgrids-inventorymaterial-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fscale-microgrids-inventorymaterial-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fscale-microgrids-inventorymaterial-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/scale-microgrids-inventorymaterial-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fscale-microgrids-inventorymaterial-manager"}]}