Production Planner – Wafer - Livermore, CA, United States
$104,600 - $137,235 USD yearly
Originally posted 19 August 2026 by the employer.
Help us translate demand, capacity, and material readiness into an integrated and executable wafer fab plan.
About the role
This role is responsible for translating demand, capacity, material readiness, and manufacturing priorities into an integrated and executable fab plan for wafer production. You will independently manage complex, re-entrant production flows across multiple process modules and planning horizons.
What you'll do
- Own the short-, mid-, and long-range wafer fab production plan, including wafer starts and completion projections.
- Translate demand, backlog, forecasts, and product mix into finite, time-phased schedules across re-entrant wafer fabrication flows.
- Identify and quantify constraints by process step, tool group, labor skill, mask layer, material, qualification status, and facility dependency.
- Lead daily and weekly planning reviews that connect the master plan to shop-floor execution.
- Integrate engineering lots, qualification builds, and process-of-record changes into the fab plan.
- Own and govern planning-critical master data, including routings, cycle times, yields, and planned downtime assumptions.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience in production planning, scheduling, factory planning, industrial engineering, or manufacturing operations, with significant experience in semiconductor wafer fabrication.
- Expertise planning re-entrant manufacturing flows and integrating demand, capacity, WIP, yield, cycle time, materials, and equipment constraints into executable schedules.
- Advanced experience with ERP, MES, APS, or fab scheduling systems.
- Strong analytical capability using Excel and business intelligence tools.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional planning decisions and influence senior stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience with thin-film, photolithography, deposition, etch, plating, cleaning, metrology, or other semiconductor wafer fab process flows.
- Experience with factory ramps, technology transfers, NPI, capacity expansions, and qualification planning.
- Working knowledge of dispatching logic, constraint-based scheduling, cycle-time modeling, OEE, throughput, and statistical process or performance analysis.
- Experience with Oracle, SAP, Kinaxis, OMP, or comparable planning platforms; MES experience in a semiconductor environment.
- Lean, Six Sigma, APICS/ASCM, or related planning and continuous improvement credentials.
Skills: wafer fab planning, production plan, capacity management, material readiness, cycle time, yield
This role has been open 58 days — slightly above the 52-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2505
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$96k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | FormFactor | All employers we track in this specialty (2505 roles · 79 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 49 | 2505 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 111 | 9915 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 46 d | 52 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $96k |
Skills observed across this category: wafer fab planning, production plan, capacity management, material readiness, cycle time, yield
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 398 open roles · median 77 d
- Applied Materials · 256 open roles · median 37 d
- Entegris · 227 open roles · median 36 d
- Lam Research · 109 open roles · median 58 d
- Infineon Technologies · 91 open roles · median 57 d
- STMicroelectronics · 70 open roles · median 51 d
How we counted: 2505 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 79 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.
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