Offshore Operations: Production Planner

This role must be located in Kaohsiung and is working from home.

Established in 2001, EnSilica plc is a designing industry leading, application specific integrated circuit chips (ASIC), for customers ranging from start-ups to blue chip companies, in industries including: automotive, medical, space and mobile technology companies. With its head office on Milton Park, Oxfordshire, and other offices in the UK (Bristol, Sheffield & Cambridge), Brazil (Porto Alegre & Campinas), India (Bangalore) and Hungary (Budapest), EnSilica currently employs around 230 people.

We are looking for an offshore operation production planner with practical experience. The candidate will be responsible for managing the production scheduling, capacity planning, and material tracking of outsourced testing and assembly factories.

The successful candidate will serve as connective link across the end-to-end supply chain, ensuring that materials, inventory, and finished goods flow efficiently from suppliers to customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, such as Supply Chain and Finance on S&OP process to ensure products are delivered on time and in full to end customer.
• Develop and maintain production schedules based on forecasts, customer orders and inventory levels.
• Plan and release purchase orders, build instructions and drop ship requirements to suppliers to meet customer demand and maintain buffer stocks.
• Monitor work-in-progress (WIP), inventory levels and lead times of all material, including substrates, lead frames & purchased known-good-die, to prevent shortages or excess stock and optimize on-time delivery (OTD) to the customer.
• In case of tight supply, work closely with supplier to ensure any schedule changes or delays are addressed effectively.
• Support new product introductions by coordinating trial runs and ramp-up schedules.
• Prepare and verify shipping documentation including bills of lading, commercial invoices, and customs declarations
• Track and present key performance metrics, such as on-time delivery, capacity allocation achieve rate.

Education and Key Skills

• 1-2 years experience in production planning, scheduling or supply chain operations.

• Good understanding of semiconductor manufacturing
  with Foundry, Assembly and Test process flow.

• Fluent in English communication. (TOEIC score above 700 or equivalent certification).
• Good understanding of MRP, inventory management, and supply chain.
• Microsoft Excel skills, Power BI.
• Strong interpersonal skills for cross-functional and supplier engagement

• Experience with ERP systems, e.g. SAP.

Personality

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong communication skills, which enable you to interface easily and effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in an international environment.
• Self-motivated, willing to take ownership of problems and provide suitable solutions.
• Ability to work in a dynamic.

• You are a problem-solver and work independently and with drive to achieve results.

• A team player, ideally with experience collaborating within the international, cross-functional environments.
• Adaptable and wiling to embrace change.

Position Specifics

This role is working from home but you must be located in Kaohsiung.

Some travel to supplier sites within Asia might be required.