Strategic Cost & Planning Engineer - Semiconductor Fab

Vanguard; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an experienced Cost Management and Planning Engineer to support planning, estimating, budgeting, and cost management of a semiconductor fab. The role involves establishing expense controls, monitoring expenditures, forecasting costs, and providing timely cost performance information to the management team.

You will work with engineering, material management and project teams to identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising safety, quality, or fab requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
• Knowledge in semiconductor manufacturing, with exposure to wafer fab operations.
• Experience in capacity planning, cycle time management, WIP control, and productivity optimization.
• Knowledge of IE methodologies including line balancing and bottleneck management.
• Proficient with data analysis tools such as JMP, SQL, Tableau/Power BI and MES PROMIS.
• Strong communication and presentation skills; ability to translate data into insights.
• High accountability, adaptability and ability to thrive in a fast-paced fab environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain cost management procedures, systems, processes and benchmarking data.
• Develop and maintain CBS and cost coding aligned with WBS.
• Track actual expenditures against budgets and flag potential overruns early.
• Analyze expenditure, commitments, accruals, and remaining budget to assess fab finances.
• Identify cost variances and propose corrective actions.
• Prepare monthly expenditure reports, annual budgets, and dashboards.
• Prepare biweekly rolling forecasts and cost-down project reports for management.
• Coordinate with finance to ensure accurate capture of commitments.
• Identify budget shortfalls and unused funds; support budget transfers and reserve control.

Skills

Data analysis

Communication

Analytical thinking

Cost modelling

Capacity planning

WIP control

IE methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering

Tools

JMP

SQL

Tableau/Power BI

PROMIS (MES)

Job description

Vanguard is seeking an experienced Cost Management and Planning Engineer to support planning, estimating, budgeting, and cost management of a semiconductor fab. The role involves establishing expense controls, monitoring expenditures, forecasting costs, and providing timely cost performance information to the management team.

You will work with engineering, material management and project teams to identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising safety, quality, or fab requirements.