Production Planner (Fab WIP and Cycle Time)

Project

Work done for a product or program.

• Set wafer-start schedules by product and priority against fab capacity and bottlenecks.
• Monitor WIP profiles, line balance and cycle time across fab areas.
• Prioritise hot lots, super hot lots and engineering lots in the dispatch rules.
• Work with manufacturing to clear bottlenecks and recover from tool-down events.
• Maintain capacity models and cycle-time targets by technology and product.
• Track wafer-out against plan and feed commitments to supply planning.
• Report line yield, WIP turns and on-time wafer-out.

Function

Work that keeps the discipline running: methods, tools, suppliers and people.

• Maintain the policies, processes and tools of the function.General
• Keep the function compliant with legal, financial and regulatory requirements.General
• Report the function's performance and improve it over time.General

Project

1. Produce and hand over the role's key deliverables
   • Wafer-start and loading plan
   • WIP and cycle time reports
   • Bottleneck recovery plans
   • Capacity model updates
2. Support programsGeneral
   • Agree what each program needs
   • Deliver in time for milestones
3. Manage issuesGeneral
   • Track requests to closure
   • Escalate risks

Function

1. Run the functionGeneral
   • Maintain policies and processes
   • Keep records and controls
2. ImproveGeneral
   • Report performance
   • Lead improvement work