Planning Engineer - Materials and Spares

About the role

Micron is hiring a Material Planning Engineer for its Fab 10N/X site. The engineer works within a team to manage spares and materials forecasts for the fab tools, ensuring they are accurately forecasted and that procurement is kept informed of stocking levels. The role also involves the cost management and finance team on budgeting, compliance to budget and cost benchmarking.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain accurate build-of-material planning models for assigned commodities or spares, and PM maintenance plan models for assigned fab areas.
• Apply supply chain engineering concepts to manage forecast requirements and forecast accuracy, avoiding inventory shortages or material expiry that could stop production lines.
• Determine actions needed for excursion control and method improvement.
• Design and coordinate projects with several departments to continuously improve forecast accuracy.
• Interface with R&D and process engineering to build the BOM and forecast platform using a web portal and database.
• Coordinate material or parts shortage and expiry issues with stakeholders to minimise their impact.
• Develop reporting and automation capabilities to improve process efficiency.
• Integrate AI-assisted tools into daily work and share AI-enabled improvements with colleagues.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Interest in and knowledge of the semiconductor industry and Micron.
• Good teamwork, multi-tasking and self-motivation skills, able to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to apply baseline digital fluency and role-appropriate AI literacy to use AI tools responsibly.

Required skills

• Programming such as Python (Pandas), SQL and/or web app development.
• Strong understanding of statistics and data analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.