Base Power Company
Supply Chain Intern - Procurement
Austin, TX · Intern · Internship
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About the role
- That vertical integration is our advantage, and it means the suppliers we choose and the deals we strike directly shape our cost and speed.
- This includes sourcing, planning, and getting it to the line on time.
- Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly.
Responsibilities
- Own sourcing for a set of assigned parts: build and run RFQs, compare supplier quotes on cost, lead time, and capacity, and make the call on award.
- Negotiate price, payment terms, and lead time directly with suppliers, and track savings against the prior baseline.
- Support qualification of new suppliers and second sources for critical components: gather quotes, samples, and capability data for the team's decision.
- Global Supply Management owns every part that goes into a Base battery and its associated systems.
- Sourcing is where that pressure lands first: the team decides who we buy from and on what terms, and builds the leverage and systems that make those calls repeatable.
- As a GSM Intern, you will own sourcing for a set of assigned parts, run the RFQ process end to end, and negotiate cost and terms directly with suppliers.
- You will be given parts to source, suppliers to negotiate with, and quotes that carry real weight in our build cost.
Requirements
- Working toward a degree in supply chain, industrial engineering, operations, mechanical engineering, business, or another quantitative field - or on a comparable path.
Nice to have
- Strong spreadsheet skills and comfort working with large, messy datasets.
- SQL, Python, or scripting is a plus.
- Genuine interest in how physical products get built.
Company info
- 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.
- We are ramping in-house manufacturing of our own battery product while qualifying second sources for critical components, which means the plan changes often and the cost of being wrong is a stopped line.
- Sourcing is where that pressure lands first:
- the team decides who we buy from and on what terms, and builds the leverage and systems that make those calls repeatable.
- Please note:
- Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly.
- Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.
- First Principles Thinking:
- Question assumptions.
- Principles > rules.
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