Lead - Production Planning & Scheduling

About The Business:

Tata Electronics Private Limited (TEPL) is a greenfield venture of the Tata Group with expertise in manufacturing precision components.

Tata Electronics (a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd.) is building India's first AI-enabled state-of-the-art Semiconductor Foundry. This facility will produce chips for applications such as power management IC, display drivers, microcontrollers (MCU) and high-performance computing logic, addressing the growing demand in markets such as automotive, computing and data storage, wireless communications and artificial intelligence.

Tata Electronics is a subsidiary of the Tata group. The Tata Group operates in more than 100 countries across six continents, with the mission To improve the quality of life of the communities we serve globally, through long term stakeholder value creation based on leadership with Trust.

Responsibilities

Order & Customer Commitment

• Provide commit delivery dates for every customer order (Order promising / ATP).
• Track and improve CLIP/Customer Line-Item Performance for all customers.
• Manage re-commits when customer requests change (product change, hold, release, expedite, slow-down).
• Coordinate with Customer Ops for WIP visibility, priority lots, and shipment planning.

Daily Wafer Start & Production Scheduling

• Prepare daily wafer start plan across technology nodes and products.
• Execute wafer start for each order/production lot based on capacity and loading targets.
• Drive start stability, weekly loading adherence, and cycle time compliance.
• Align with diffusion, litho, etch, CMP, implant, and backend modules for capacity feasibility.

WIP Control & Lot Handling

• Manage daily fab WIP: status, aging, bank, bottlenecks, special lots.
• Handle Lot Handling Requests (LHN)—change product, hold, release, split/merge, expedite, slow-down.
• Monitor and maintain TTL WIP, remaining input quantities, WAT/WH/Bank levels.
• Control key lots, SHL lots, Customer Pull-in/Pull-out lots, and special event lots.

Production Plan, Projection & Assumptions

• Prepare weekly and monthly production/output projections.

Identify and monitor key planning assumptions

• Cycle time per route
• Module capacities
• Bottleneck health
• Tool availability
• Product mix impact
• Manage Consensus Demand vs Plan vs Execution alignment.

System & Process Ownership

• Drive PP modules in the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Planning System:
• Order management
• Reserve/Commit/Recommit logic
• WIP tracking & forecast
• Plan-group settings
• Daily plan creation & overrides
• Own PP procedures, SOPs, and internal controls.
• Support digital transformation, automation, and data integrity for planning.

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with:
• Planning & Logistics
• Module Engineering
• Manufacturing Operations
• Customer Operations
• Quality/PIE
• Supply Chain (Materials/Stores)

Provide daily plan, recovery actions, and output risk visibility to stakeholders.

Essential Attributes:

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing flow, routing, and WIP behavior.
• Expertise in:
• Wafer start scheduling
• WIP management and dispatching
• CT modelling and bottleneck control
• Output projection logic
• Order management and ATP/CTP concepts
• Familiar with MES, ERP, MPS/MRP, and planning dashboards.
• Ability to interpret fab data, constraints, and convert into executable plan.

Analytical Skills

• Excellent quantitative and problem‑solving abilities.
• Ability to forecast output under variability.

Data‑driven decision-making using dashboards, SQL, Excel, Python

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering (Electronics, Mechanical, Industrial, Production, Semiconductor, or similar).
• 5–12 years experience in Production Planning within semiconductor fabs, display fabs, or complex high‑mix manufacturing preferred.
• Experience in Planning, WIP Control, Order Management, or Fab Operations highly desirable.