Cleanliness Expert Job in Veldhoven, Netherlands

ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment.

Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that improve the quality of life. To achieve this, our mission is to invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the semiconductor industry.

ASML's guiding principle is continuing Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology, communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment.

Working at ASML
We provide the world’s top chipmakers everything they need to create better performing, cheaper semiconductor chips. Simply put: we are an industry leader supporting industry leaders.

As such, you’ll be encouraged to bring your best ideas and act on them. You’ll have the freedom, trust, and support in your field to experiment and solve complex challenges. Things are rarely dull when you’re constantly breaking new ground.

But despite our fast-paced environment at the forefront of tech, we take your work-life balance and wellbeing seriously. A business is only as good as its employees.

So join us, and you’ll be a part of a global collaboration. One that promotes creativity, the inclusion of highly diverse teams, and an exciting and dynamic work environment. Join us, and you’ll be a part of progress.

Cleanliness Expert Job Description

Introduction
ASML is constantly striving to improve quality of our lithography machines. One of the current challenges is to ensure clean vacuum environment when projecting light on the wafer stage.
Do you have experience in cleanliness and verification methods? Then our Process and Cleanliness Control group could be a great fit for you!

Job Description
Process and Cleanliness Control group is tackling the issue of organic vacuum contamination by designing the cleanliness requirements of hardware. You will assure that the hardware design is meeting the cleanliness specifications by focusing on the correct cleanliness tests, adjusting if necessary and making sure that the cleanliness specifications are properly recorded in the TPD. You will also support the suppliers to understand the cleanliness specifications so that they test the correct parameters during the volume phase.

 Main responsibilities:
- Define cleanliness strategies for new product designs.
- Executing/leading design FMEAs for cleanliness of products.
- Define improvement action plans and get them implemented in the designs.
- Execute DOEs for cleanliness parameters on process and product level.

Cleanliness Expert Job Requirements

Education
Bachelor or Master degree in Chemistry (preferred), Material Science or Physics with a clear specialization towards cleanliness of parts.
Having a Black Belt certification is a pre.

Experience
- Relevant working experience in a high-tech environment
- At least 2 years of experience in cleanliness and verification
- Experience with RGA/XPS/SEM/EDX measurements
- Experience with SW that supports statistical analysis (Minitab)
- Experience with working in cleanroom environment with knowledge on cleanroom hardware
- Experience with FMEAs, DOE, 6 Sigma, ISO cleanliness standards
- Experience with supporting hardware projects in the design phase on cleanliness

Personal skills
Strong analytical ability, pro-active attitude, strong sense of ownership, solution driven, good communication and networking skills, good knowledge of English.

Context of the position
ASML is constantly pushing the limits of technology into areas where nobody has gone before. 
Within ASML the sector Development & Engineering (D&E) is responsible for the specification and the design of the ASML products.
The department Defectivity & Optical Column Conditioning Scanner (DOCCS) is responsible for creating the perfect environment for the optical column which is part of the EUV path in vacuum. By designing the flow in vacuum, choosing the correct materials and designing critical processes  like e.g. cleanliness processes. These cleanliness processes of course also need to be industrialized in the ASML factories and supply chain. The Process and Cleanliness Control group within DOCCS is responsible for the design and the industrialization of these critical cleanliness processes and managing the linked n-Tier supply chain.

Other information
This position requires some international travel.

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