Full-Time

Supply Chain Planner

Posted on 10/10/2024

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

501-1,000 employees

Develops and commercializes fusion energy systems

No salary listed

Mid

Devens, MA, USA

Hybrid position requiring in-office presence.

Category
Supply Chain Management
Operations & Logistics
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in the field of Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or Finance
  • 3+ Yrs in Manufacturing, Planning, or Supply Chain
  • Experience translating Engineering designs into demand and supply plans
Responsibilities
  • Interface between Suppliers, Supply Chain and Manufacturing to align schedules and resources for critical path items.
  • Translate Engineering bills of materials into actionable planning signals for the Supply Chain and Production teams.
  • Monitor and report supply risk mitigation strategies to internal customers on a continuous basis.
  • Identify and clearly communicate schedule blockers and their impacts.
  • Manage full product lifecycle demand and supply planning signals, with an emphasis on the transition from development to production.
  • Negotiate internally & externally to ensure resources are appropriately allocated.
  • Be the link between Inventory and Finance/Accounting to monitor and prevent overages or underages in excess of the plan of record.
  • Create tools and innovate planning processes to help the supply chain operate more efficiently.
  • Manage MRP and product/project schedule alignment.
  • Maintain product master data in the system of record.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems focuses on developing fusion energy as a sustainable and abundant power source to address climate change. The company utilizes advanced magnet technology, created in partnership with MIT, to build smaller and more cost-effective fusion systems called tokamaks. These devices use magnetic fields to confine plasma, making them efficient for achieving fusion. Currently, CFS is manufacturing high-temperature superconducting magnets and constructing SPARC, the first commercially-relevant net energy fusion machine, which will lead to the development of ARC, the first fusion power plant. CFS aims to provide cost-competitive clean fusion energy, generating revenue through the sale of these systems. The company is distinguished by its mission-driven team and commitment to scientific integrity, fostering an environment that encourages the best ideas to emerge.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Grant

Total Funding

$2B

Headquarters

Harvard, Massachusetts

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • CFS raised $1 billion to support its fusion power reactor development.
  • The U.S. Department of Energy may provide financial support for CFS's projects.
  • AI-driven plasma control systems could enhance CFS's tokamak efficiency.

What critics are saying

  • Competition from emerging technologies like Realta's modular magnetic mirror fusion.
  • High costs and complexity of achieving net energy-positive fusion reactions.
  • Potential delays in ARC reactor construction could impact CFS's commercial targets.

What makes Commonwealth Fusion Systems unique

  • CFS uses rare-earth barium copper oxide superconductor technology for energy development.
  • Collaboration with MIT enhances CFS's fusion research and technological capabilities.
  • CFS's SPARC and ARC projects aim to deliver the first commercial fusion power plants.

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Benefits

12.5 Company-wide Holidays

Our vacation policy is 'take vacation'

Our sick time policy is 'get better and try not to make others sick'

Generous parental leave policy

Health Reimbursement

Health, Dependent Care, & Limited Purpose Flexible Spending Accounts

Delta Dental, Blue 20/20 Vision optional

Wellbeing / Headspace coverage

Short-term & long-term disability

Life and AD&D insurance

401K

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 1%

1 year growth

↑ 2%

2 year growth

↑ 1%
ImpactAlpha
May 16th, 2025
The Week's Dealflow: May 16, 2025

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has reportedly raised $1 billion in an extension of its Series B round to support the buildout of its demonstration fusion power reactor... University of Wisconsin spinout Realta raised $36 million for its modular magnetic mirror fusion technology.

Data Center Dynamics
May 15th, 2025
Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises $1bn

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has raised over $1 billion, led by an unnamed hyperscale data center developer, to build 400MW fusion reactors within a decade. CFS plans to construct the 'ARC' fusion power plant in Virginia by the early 2030s and aims to have a test system, 'SPARC,' by 2027. Despite challenges in fusion investments, CFS secured funding, while other companies like First Light Fusion and General Fusion face financial difficulties.

NEI Magazine
Apr 8th, 2025
Assembly of SPARC tokamak underway

CFS has been developing SPARC step by step for years.

Securities.io
Mar 4th, 2025
Unraveling Safe And Practical Fusion – New Insights Into Trapped Fuel Shared

Fusion Fuel EfficiencyNuclear Fusion is potentially the ultimate green energy source, producing no dangerous byproducts, radioactivity (the only “waste” is helium), or greenhouse gases. And it could be powered by a fuel so abundant that it is a significant percentage of the entire Universe: deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen.But this is also a very difficult to achieve form of energy generation. It requires replicating on Earth the conditions in the core of the Sun, with tremendous pressures and tens or hundreds of millions of degrees.Nuclear fusion has been achieved in physics laboratories for decades, but a net energy-positive fusion reaction is still to be reached. This is what many are racing to accomplish, from the international megaproject ITER to commercial fusion projects like Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Proxima Fusion.Commercial viability will depend not only on achieving stable and energy-positive plasma generation, but also on the general efficiency of the process.One open question is the fuel efficiency. Deuterium is known to be partially absorbed by the walls of the tokamak fusion reactors. Researchers at Princeton University, University of California, University of Tennessee, Sandia National Laboratory, and General Atomics are figuring it out.They published their results in Nuclear Materials and Energy1, under the title “Deuterium retention behaviors of boronization films at DIII-D divertor surface”.Deuterium, Tritium FusionThe lighter an atom is, the more potential energy is released when it undergoes nuclear fusion

HR Today
Dec 28th, 2024
John Kruep Joins Commonwealth Fusion Systems as Senior Director, People Operations

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, December 2024 - John Kruep has been appointed as Senior Director, People Operations at Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS).

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