Production Planner

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Singapore, SGP
In-Office
Junior
Hardware
The Role
Coordinates material movement and production planning across purchasing, production, and engineering. Tracks shortages, maintains bills of materials, manages manufacturing capacity, resolves inventory variances, supports production and shipping reviews, and ensures engineering changes are implemented efficiently. Requires analytical, collaborative, detail-oriented work in a technical manufacturing environment, with proficiency in Excel, data analysis, ERP systems, and preferably SAP.
Summary Generated by Built In

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.


Group/Division

KLA has manufacturing sites worldwide. The Global Operations (GOPS) team, comprised of Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Installation and Quality, builds our leading-edge technology. GOPS partners with KLA's global supply base and design engineering teams to develop new products, working continuously to build better, faster and more cost-efficient solutions.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.


Job Description

Coordinates the efficient movement of materials with purchasing, production and engineering through the production cycle

Ensures non-conformances or variances are approved and/ or minimized.

Track shortages and run shortage meetings with procurement team. Identifying critical part shortages that will jeopardize ship schedule

Responsible for maintaining bill of materials, ensuring bill of material supports efficient material flow and is aligned with assembly process

Understands and maintains critical path of BOMs in area of responsibility and drives engineering to maintain BOM alignment to manufacturing process

Understands manufacturing capacity and allocate as required to meet build plan commitments

Identify and resolve problems relating cycle count variances

Attend production meeting as well as Ship rev meetings etc

Collaborate with key partners (purchasing and engineering) to ensure Engineering Change Orders are communicated and implemented in manufacturing in an efficient and timely way

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 years
  • Proficient in Excel, Data analysis, ERP system; preferable SAP.
  • Detail oriented, process driven, highly collaborative, committed to accuracy.
  • Ability to manage priorities and work in a fast-paced technical manufacturing environment.
  • Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.


Use of AI Statement 

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.


We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.


KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.


Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 2 years of related work experience
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
  • Data analysis experience
  • Experience with ERP systems
  • SAP experience
  • Detail-oriented and process-driven approach
  • Strong collaboration skills
  • Ability to manage priorities in a fast-paced technical manufacturing environment
  • Knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles

KLA Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about KLA and has not been reviewed or approved by KLA.

  • Retirement Support — U.S. programs include a formulaic 401(k) employer match with clearly described plan designs in company materials. Consistent plan structure and employer matching signal strong support for long‑term savings.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — A broad base of employees is eligible for RSUs and can participate in an ESPP, extending ownership beyond executives. Company materials position equity as a core component of total compensation.
  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — A quarterly profit‑sharing program and performance bonuses are outlined in filings, providing regular variable pay opportunities. These incentives complement base pay and equity to lift overall earnings in strong periods.

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The Company
HQ: Milpitas, CA
10,001 Employees

What We Do

KLA develops industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. We provide advanced process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles. In close collaboration with leading customers across the globe, our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers design solutions that move the world forward.

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