Job Abstract

Do you have a passion for people and continuous improvement?

Do you bring experience in manufacturing management and understand the dynamics of making things work in real life?

Are you result oriented, pragmatic and want to join our ambition to unleash the potential of everyone improving every day?

Are you ready to drive continuous improvement in a more integral way, uniting and leverage LEAN with other improvements capabilities and centers of excellence across ASML?

As an Area Manager you will effectively lead a functional area of our Optics manufacturing operations with a total organization size of 40+ employees and 3 shift manager direct reports. Your area will operate a minimum of 5 days a week across three 8 hour shifts, and may include a hybrid schedule with employees working across 7 days a week. You will be a hands-on manager ensuring safe, on-time delivery of high quality product to your customers (internal and external) while leading improvements in process and operational effectivity and efficiency. You will continuously seek out, foster, and spearhead improvements to all aspects of your operational area. You will develop a strong partnership with our sister factory in Berlin, Germany, to share best practices. You will engage in adoption and industrialization of new products and new processes through a strong partnership with Production and Development Engineers. You love being a team player that enjoys the success of team members as much as you enjoy personal success.

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

An Optical Fabrication Functional Area Manufacturing Manager is responsible for:

• With minimal supervision, leading a team of shift leaders and technicians to fabricate precision optics while meeting or exceeding department and product Key Performance Indicators. These include, but are not limited to: safety; product first pass yield; on-time delivery; production lead time; labor efficiency; 5S; and workforce development and upskilling.

• Collaborating with production engineering to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of processes within your area.

• Working effectively with and coordinating with Area Manager peers across Optical Fabrication Manufacturing to meet goals and maintain Optics production continuity.

• Investigating and driving systematic solutions to craftsmanship induced quality issues.

• Maintaining alignment of individual, team, and area goals to overall company, site, factory and department objectives.

• Developing and maintaining strategies that assure the achievement of internal and external customer requirements.

• Establishing a coordinated and seamless 24-hour operation making yourself accessible for issue escalations at any time.

• Anticipating resource requirements and allocating/requesting accordingly in order to meet department goals.

• Engage in demand and supply review cycles to make area supply commitments through a thorough understanding of area equipment and staffing capacity and capability.

• Hiring, integrating, training, developing and retaining team members to meet department challenges.

• Coaching and mentoring your team of managers and technicians for success and growth.

• Administrative duties of the department, including time and attendance record-keeping and performance / merit reviews.

• Administering and enforcing company policies and procedures in a direct and consistent manner.

• Working with Human Resources to administer employee counseling actions as required.

• Creating, maintaining, and monitoring production schedules with clearly defined priorities in partnership with the Business Planning organization.

• Facilitating identification and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives for organizational design and processes within your area and across the department.

• Developing competencies within the department that focus on technical skills, lean continuous improvement, teambuilding, and cross-training.

• Displaying structured systematic problem solving, innovative problem resolution, and encouraging new ideas and methods that are applied with rigorous experimentation and change control.

• Leading by example, encouraging personal motivation in an effort to achieve world class safety and quality performance.

• Communicating effectively at all levels of the organization, spanning ability to gain buy-in and motivate technicians to the ability to influence executives.

• Developing and justifying annual operational budget for Area.

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree required.  A degree in engineering or related field desired.

• 5+ years directly or indirectly supervising hourly employees in a complex production environment (preferably in Optics manufacturing) or equivalent experience.

• External candidates must have at least 3 years managing salaried employees.

• Strong business and manufacturing operation acumen preferably in a high mix manufacturing environment.

• Strong LEAN manufacturing and Continuous Improvement experience – you can demonstrate a history of operational improvement through effective collaboration with your employees and across your partner organizations. Demonstrated knowledge and application of Factory Physics desirable.

• Computer proficiency with MS Outlook 365 applications, with knowledge of SAP or comparable ERP system.

• Familiar with ISO9001 and ISO14001. Direct working experience in an ISO certified environment desirable.

• Prior optical coating and/or optical metrology experience desired.

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.  

To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:  

• Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.   

• Can learn and apply new information or skills.  

• Must be able to read and interpret data, information, and documents. 

• Strong customer focus and commitment to customer satisfaction through prioritization, quality, efficiency and professionalism. 

• Ability to complete assignments with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.  

• Proven ability to perform effectively in a demanding environment with changing workloads and deadlines.  

• Result driven-demonstrate ownership and accountability. 

• Identifies bottlenecks and drives improvements. 

• Work independently or as part of a team and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision.  

• Demonstrate open, clear, concise and professional communication. 

• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with manager, co-workers and customer.  

• Work according to a strict set of procedures within the provided timelines.  

• Strong interpersonal, coaching, and teambuilding skills. Recognizes strengths of a diverse workforce and can adjust coaching and leadership skills to draw the personal best out of each individual.

• Strong analytical skills with ability to review and interpret technical information for action.

• Can translate delivery requirements into an executable schedule.

• Strong problem solving skills – able to identify and structurally solve problems in a timely manner.

• Use data and sound judgment in decision making. Knows how and when to influence. Explains and convinces internal and external parties beyond content driven arguments and is able to appeal to interest, culture and level of others

• Thirsts for learning and personal development. Effectively listens in a quest to understand.

• Constructively challenges the status quo in search of a better way.

• Addresses business challenges with a “what would it take to make it happen” mindset.

• Situational leadership skills to balance mandating direction for urgency with buy-in for structural change.

• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and manage changing priorities in a dynamic production environment.

• Decisive, demonstrates a strong constancy of purpose, and drives to meet commitments.

• Ability to effectively communicate and engage in one on one, small groups settings of technicians, engineers, and management.

• Comfortably and effectively presents for action to executive leadership.

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

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