Base brings affordable, reliable energy and whole-home backup to homes across Texas — fixed low rates and battery backup that kicks in automatically. Backed by Lightspeed and a16z.
About the role
As the Material Planner, you will serve as the operational backbone of Base's manufacturing supply chain. This is a high-ownership role responsible for ensuring material availability across our vertically integrated factories while balancing inventory health, cost, and production velocity. You will not simply release POs or manage shortages reactively. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience with Manufacturing ERP Systems & Manufacturing Execution Systems
- Agentic tools to build, test, and streamline planning workflows and analyses, and to solve complex problems, applied alongside your supply chain judgment rather than in place of it
- Experience with electro-mechanical assemblies with a mixture of off the shelf and custom manufactured components, inclusive of those built by large contract manufacturers
More about this role
Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.
As the Material Planner, you will serve as the operational backbone of Base's manufacturing supply chain. This is a high-ownership role responsible for ensuring material availability across our vertically integrated factories while balancing inventory health, cost, and production velocity.
You will not simply release POs or manage shortages reactively.
You will own the end-to-end material planning strategy for critical components and assemblies - translating production plans and engineering changes into executable supply signals, driving supplier accountability, and building the planning systems and processes required to scale manufacturing at Base Pace.
This role sits at the intersection of Manufacturing, Engineering, Procurement, Quality, and Finance, and is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity,...
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