Engineer, US Expansion Planning

Description

The company makes memory and storage products and is preparing a high-volume memory plant in Idaho for production.

This role sits in US expansion planning and works across manufacturing and R&D.

Responsibilities

• Get the Idaho plant ready for production by working out the capital effects of the processes to be introduced there.
• Present those capital effects to senior leaders in manufacturing and R&D.
• Link supply chain, finance, engineering, procurement, production and R&D so cost-saving work gets carried out.
• Build tools that speed up and sharpen the planning and reporting used to prepare, ramp and run the site.
• Explain capital changes and recommend actions, drawing on data analysis and an open, learning approach.
• Improve use of the existing equipment base and lead studies on site-level and tool-level efficiency.
• Work with partners on future tool and process roadmaps and estimate how process changes affect network capacity.
• Run financial analyses before new capital equipment is bought, covering metrics, process flexibility, shared capacity and reuse of equipment.
• Build and maintain tool utilization and capacity planning models so the site's deployed capital is used well.
• Prepare and track capital change proposals, reporting them in tools such as Tableau and in formal presentations to manufacturing senior leaders.
• Build and roll out tools that audit manufacturing capital efficiency and find cost reduction opportunities.
• Share improvement opportunities and implementation plans with every relevant level and function in manufacturing.
• Use Python, SQL, R, Excel and VBA, alongside newer and established methods, to improve and automate work in the planning system and models.

Requirements

• Hold a Master's degree in Management Information Systems, Engineering Management or a related field, or a Bachelor's in one of those fields plus 2 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• Have experience developing models for production and centralized planning.
• Have experience optimizing deployed and projected capital.
• Have experience evaluating capital projects.
• Have experience building web-based reporting metrics with Tableau and Python, including cash flow, payback and ROI analysis.
• Have experience with linear and nonlinear optimization.
• Have experience using statistics to choose and improve key performance indicators.

Conditions

This role is for US sites only.

The company provides a link to information about right to work.

You may use AI tools to polish your resume and application materials, but everything must be accurate; fabricating or misrepresenting qualifications leads to immediate disqualification.

The company bans child labor, follows applicable labor laws and standards, and never charges candidates recruitment fees.

Be wary of unsolicited job offers and confirm any message claiming to be from the company on its official careers website.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans, offered in all locations, so you can pick what suits your family's healthcare needs and budget.
• Income protection if illness or injury keeps you from working.
• Paid family leave.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• A benefits guide with full details is posted on the company's careers site.