Do you want to help build real technology for a meaningful purpose? Do you want to fight to make the world’s fresh produce healthier, tastier, and more sustainable?

As a Procurement Specialist on the Hardware Team at Tortuga, you’ll be a key contributor on our Production team, which is responsible for building our robots. You’ll bring expertise in sourcing, buying and vendor management, as well as a strong work ethic, a sense of urgency, and attention to detail. You know when to push vendors at risk of missing their commitments but are still able to maintain strong relationships.

As an employee at Tortuga, you’ll be fundamental to our success, growth, and culture. You’ll bring experience and a passion for our mission while also thriving in a fast-paced, flexible, and energized startup environment. You’re excited to grow your role and skills as Tortuga grows.

What you’ll do

• Drive procurement of material in support of business requirements; procurement activities including RFQ processes, supplier selection, purchase order placement, monitoring shipment and services and supplier performance

• Act as a main point of contact for suppliers

• Act as point of contact for contract manufacturing partner (CM) logistics to deliver customer supplied materials and track schedule and deliveries of sub-assemblies delivered to Tortuga

• Work with our internal team on requirements, need dates, and work to support projects

• Ensure that the suppliers are acknowledging orders immediately and accurately within established lead-times

• Follow-up with vendors and push them to deliver when commitments slip

• Analyze changes in materials and supplies to find ways to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and get alternative items when materials are not available

• Execute on quality processes

What we’re looking for

• Required: 2-4 years experience in a similar hardware procurement role

• Required: Sourcing, buying and vendor management experience - comfortable negotiating with vendors and holding them accountable for commitments

• Required: Experience with spreadsheets and ability to create tracking tools as needed for managing orders and providing visibility to other team members

• Excellent relationship management skills

• Extremely detail-oriented; strong organizational and analytical skills; acute sense of urgency

• Strong communication skills (written, verbal, listening)

• Ability to understand the financial implications of purchasing strategies and decisions

• Experience reading and understanding engineering drawings, specifications, and other technical documentation

• Capability to handle multiple projects and priorities

• Startup or small company experience a major plus

Please note you must be authorized to work in the United States for this position.

The base salary range below represents the low and high end of our salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, responsibilities, and regular and/or necessary travel. The range listed is just one component of Tortuga’s total compensation package for employees.   

Denver area base salary range: $52,000 - $77,000 per year.   Relocation assistance is available for out-of-state candidates.

All salaried, full-time employees receive:

• Meaningful company equity

• Unlimited paid time off

• 401K plan with 3% employer contribution

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance 

• Flexible working hours 

• Annual wellness stipend  

A word about COVID-19

We are highly sensitive to the difficulties that the COVID-19 pandemic brings to people, as team members and as individuals at home. We want you to be safe, to keep our team safe, and to do our part to help reduce the impact of the pandemic. We are an Essential Business so the majority of our work is performed at our office. Our office abides by all COVID-19 guidelines established by the State of Colorado and the City of Denver.

About Tortuga

Tortuga AgTech’s mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving planet, through smarter farming. We’re pursuing our mission by building robotic harvesting and precision analytics systems for the world’s leading fresh produce growers (delicious things like strawberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, and herbs). We’re building not just because it’s fun, but because we believe thoughtful, well-built advanced technology can help farmers grow healthier, fresher, more environmentally sustainable produce for everyone. We’re backed by some of the most respected early-stage investors in Silicon Valley, as well as ag industry veterans. 

Tortuga means “turtle” in Spanish. Around the world, turtles are symbols of wisdom, patience, and connectedness to the Earth. We’re proud to be based in Denver, CO - a growing and leading robotics hub in North America, and a great place to live! 

Tortuga is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.