Production Planning & Lot-Control Lead

Why this work matters

Touchdown is engineering modular manufacturing for the chips and memory systems future computing needs. This role helps turn a buyer's physical result into a qualified process or a defensible decision to use an existing supplier. Advanced packaging is our intended first fab class; no production fab is operating today.

Overview

You will make the planned route and actual movement of every lot understandable. The early work is a finite-capacity model for an authorized route, including queue times, shortages, rework, test, holds, and release. You will use measured cycle time and accepted-good output to make customer commitments, and expose when a partner route is the better choice.

What you will own

• Plan small lots, dispatch, WIP, holds, changeovers, traceability, and shipping within qualified capacity.
• Model capacity, dispatch rules, WIP, setup changes, queue time, and bottlenecks.
• Schedule only qualified routes and maintain holds, traveler state, and material traceability.
• Communicate realistic customer commitments from yield and cycle-time evidence.
• Build a contingency plan for equipment downtime, supplier delay, low yield, and urgent customer changes.
• Reconcile physical workpieces, digital lot status, scrap, samples, and shipment records at each handoff.

Technical territory

Travelers, dispatch rules, WIP, bottleneck analysis, queue-time limits, changeovers, inventory reconciliation, rework, hold codes, release authority, accepted-good yield, cycle time, and shipping handoff.

Representative outputs

• A capacity and lot-flow plan that shows bottlenecks, holds, cycle time, and customer commitments.
• A finite-capacity lot plan with bottleneck and contingency assumptions.
• A dispatch and hold procedure with cycle-time and accepted-good reporting.
• A weekly capacity and commitment review showing assumptions, risks, owner actions, and decision dates.

What success looks like

• The plan exposes capacity limits instead of hiding them in dates.
• Every lot has a valid status, owner, and next action.
• A customer date can be traced to qualified capacity and a realistic accepted-good estimate.
• Holds, rework, and losses remain visible through final reconciliation.

What you bring

• Fab, OSAT, or precision-manufacturing planning and production control.
• Planned lots in a fab, OSAT, or high-mix precision-manufacturing line.
• Can operate production control with shortages, rework, and equipment downtime.
• Can reconcile physical counts with system records and shipping status.
• Can use actual cycle time and yield data to challenge an overcommitted production plan.
• Can run disciplined lot handoffs among process, equipment, test, quality, and shipping teams.

Helpful experience

• Pilot-line scheduling
• MES and inventory-control integration
• High-mix packaging flows
• Finite-capacity scheduling
• Cost per accepted unit analysis

How the role works

• Applications are open; the exact work location, arrangement, compensation, and start date will be discussed during hiring.
• Early work can produce engineering plans and partner comparisons. Hands-on work begins only at qualified, authorized facilities.
• You will work with process, equipment, quality, test, customer, and supplier owners as the scope requires.