Sr. Procurement Specialist - Process Equipment

San Francisco, Houston

About the role

About Mariana Minerals

Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company on a mission to supply the critical minerals powering modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. We’re reimagining the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.

Role Overview

Mariana Minerals seeks a hands-on, commercially savvy Sr. Procurement Specialist – Process Equipment to drive capital project delivery by overseeing end-to-end procurement of capital equipment. This role isn’t about transactional purchasing—here, you’ll manage defined procurement scopes from strategy development through contract award and execution, directly impacting project schedules and capital efficiency.

 

What You’ll Do

Own Capital Procurement Workstreams

  • Lead pre-award, award, and post-award contracting activities for capital equipment purchases

  • Develop and execute procurement strategies aligned with project timelines and critical path needs

  • Drive commercial negotiations with focus on total cost, risk allocation, and delivery certainty

  • Support PO conversion, approvals, and procurement system processing

Manage Contracts & Commercial Risk

  • Draft, review, and negotiate NDAs, MSAs, and equipment purchase agreements

  • Coordinate change orders and commercial amendments with project teams

  • Ensure documentation is structured, defensible, and audit-ready

Drive Cost & Value

  • Analyze spend data and identify cost savings or value-creation opportunities

  • Foster competition in the supplier market

  • Conduct commercial risk assessments to minimize supply chain and schedule risks

Build Better Systems

  • Help design scalable procurement processes as Mariana Minerals grows

  • Improve cycle times and streamline sourcing and approval workflows

  • Contribute to establishing a disciplined, data-driven procurement function from the ground up

 

What You’ll Bring

  • 5–7+ years of procurement experience in equipment purchasing and heavy industry

  • Proven experience managing competitive sourcing processes for capital equipment

  • Strong contract negotiation skills

  • In-depth understanding of commercial risk allocation

  • Proficiency with ERP/procurement systems and structured documentation

Our culture is built on four principles:

Everyone Gets Home Safe. We never put speed or cost ahead of people.

Extreme Ownership. We take full responsibility for outcomes, relentlessly driving toward solutions.

Engineer Out Requirements, then Automate. We simplify, optimize, and then automate for scale.

Share Your Legos. We collaborate openly, share knowledge, and empower each other to build bigger, better solutions.

Join us as we build the future of responsible mineral sourcing and supply!

About Mariana Minerals

Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company focused on supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. It engineers, builds, and operates mines and refineries using its proprietary MarianaOS platform, which integrates capital project execution, refinery operations, and mine management into a single AI and machine learning stack. The company targets domestic U.S. critical mineral supply for sectors facing supply chain vulnerabilities, including copper and lithium.

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Job details

Location

San Francisco, Houston

Company

NameMariana Minerals
IndustryArtificial Intelligence (AI)
Team Size3

Funding

Total raised

$400M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

a16z

Founders

TC

Turner Caldwell

CEO & Co-Founder

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JL

Juan Lozano

Co-Founder & CTO

BT

Baker Tilney

Co-Founder & CFO

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.