NPO TACTICAL PLANNER

Batu Kawan, Pulau Pinang (Penang), Malaysia Until 8/22/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2025 Last posted July 8, 2025
Job description

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

Join Micron Technology as the GSC NPO Tactical Planner, responsible for coordinating engineering resource requirements and delivering customer samples.

Manage processes, develop tools, and ensure timely sample delivery to customers and internal engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop and deploy NPI software tools for backend manufacturing teams

  • Determine functionality gaps and fill those gaps
  • Engage IT to provide requirements for the software tools
  • Perform user acceptance testing on software changes
  • Prioritize IT work
  • Provide training on tool deployment for Micron team members

Develop and deploy backend NPI processes

  • Develop backend NPI processes to meet customer demands by the commit date
  • Collaborate with other organizations to drive end-to-end NPI processes
  • Drive specific business processes to backend manufacturing sites
  • Develop initial metrics and deploy processes to collaborators
  • Identify accountability, responsibility, consultation, and information roles for NPI activities

Deploy NPI commit process to global backend manufacturing sites

  • Train and align backend manufacturing sites to new commit processes and tool functionality
  • Supervise usage and functionality of new processes
  • Provide auditing and governance of commit process
  • Build reporting of metrics

Provide NPI planning and execution

  • Review capacity constraints and drive OCAP changes
  • Provide input to other NPI-related business processes
  • Monitor, manage, and drive site and engineering execution
  • Communicate priority changes to backend manufacturing sites
  • Facilitate site-to-site equipment and material moves
  • Provide site-level build plans and forecasted NPI requirements for external subcontractors

Manage backend NPI processes

  • Develop and manage the backend NPI network through metrics
  • Evaluate and deploy Best Known Methods (BKMs) to drive NPI process improvements
  • Maintain existing documentation

Collaborate with collaborators globally

  • Facilitate consistent execution on project scope, requirements, deliverables, testing, and implementation
  • Assist in troubleshooting sophisticated issues and provide clear problem understanding for resolution
  • Initiate and maintain effective communication with internal and external collaborators
  • Represent backend NPI in global meetings

Ensure a Safe, Compliant, and Ethical Work Environment

  • Align with company safety, labor, and ethics policies
  • Encourage a culture of safety and recognize contributions to supporting a safe work environment
  • Participate in process improvement activities
  • Identify errors before they advance to the next step
  • Provide timely feedback when quality, safety, or ethical issues arise
  • Follow and support company-wide and department safety procedures to maintain a clean, safe, and accident-free work environment

Qualifications:

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Proven problem-solving and decision-making skills
  • Ability to influence others using a variety of approaches
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and present to groups
  • Decision-making skills using data analysis techniques
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate well with peers and senior leaders
  • Outstanding analytical skills and tool experience (Excel, Pivot Tables, Access, Tableau, etc.)
  • Ability to work with global multi-cultural teams
  • Ability to work independently without supervision

Education:

Preferred but not required:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Management, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related field of study with equivalent experience accepted
  • 1-3 years’ experience in semiconductor manufacturing, backend or planning

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.


To learn more, please visit micron.com/careers

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

To request assistance with the application process and/or for reasonable accommodations, please contact hrsupport_my@micron.com

Micron Prohibits the use of child labor and complies with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and other international and industry labor standards.

Micron does not charge candidates any recruitment fees or unlawfully collect any other payment from candidates as consideration for their employment with Micron.

About this role

Summary

Coordinate engineering resources and deliver customer samples for backend manufacturing.

Job title

NPO TACTICAL PLANNER

Experience level

1-3 years

Industry

semiconductors

Location requirements

Located in Batu Kawan, Malaysia; remote work not allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

communicationproblem-solvingdecision-makingdata analysisanalytical skillsExcelPivot TablesAccessTableau

Preferred skills

operations managementengineeringsupply chain management

Specializations

NPImanufacturingplanningprocess improvementcollaboration
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

George Town, Penang, Malaysia

On-site City