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New programme for PMETs to switch to wafer fab industry launched


SINGAPORE: A new professional conversion programme (PCP) for the wafer fabrication industry was unveiled by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) on Monday (May 16). It will allow professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) to acquire skills required in the wafer fabrication industry and make a mid-career switch.

Ranging from six to 12 months, the PCP comprises modules from the Wafer Fab Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ), structured on-job-training and in-house classroom training. It will also lower companies' cost of hiring new entrants and reskilling for new jobs by providing salary support during the period of training at 70 per cent of salary, at a cap of S$2,000 per month.
WDA's chief executive, Ng Cher Pong, said that the wafer fabrication industry is one where employment growth is still healthy.
WDA hopes that as the economy restructures, the programme will help those displaced to look for new opportunities, Mr Ng said.

Three major wafer fabrication MNCs will be hiring up to 70 local PMETs under the Wafer Fab PCP. These companies are Micron Semiconductor Asia, Globalfoundries Singapore as well as Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Company (SSMC).
SSMC launched its new training centre called the LEAN Centre on Monday, which is expected to host some components of the Wafer Fab PCP and other training programmes.


Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say, who was the guest-of-honour at SSMC, said companies should take the economic slowdown as an opportunity to invest for the future.
"This time round, as we go through this slowdown, the industry will still be investing for the future, helping people, and should now turn a solid training framework into a platform for us to strengthen the Singaporean core even further," he said.
"In other words, start preparing people now, to be prepared for the upturn," he added.

Singapore's wafer fabrication industry produced one million wafers per month in 2013, accounting for one in 10 wafer manufactured globally, said WDA in a media release. It added that the semiconductor industry is one of Singapore's key manufacturing industries, employing 36,600 workers, or about roughly half of the total electronics workforce.


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