Project Lead - Product Life Cycle Management 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.

Project Lead - Product Life Cycle Management Job Description

Introduction
Do you want to be part of the heart of ASML in the tension area betweendevelopment, supply chain, manufacturing and field? Are you challenged by thetime pressure of new product introduction? Do you want to lead a group ofenthusiastic people? We might have an interesting challenge for you!

Job Mission
Interfacing ASML’s Business Lines, we manage the introduction, the (engineering) changes and thephase out of products – taking supply chain requirements into account. It isour mission to enable concurrent engineering, manage complex product changes,secure the availability of materials and optimize the critical path and pursuevolume planning excellence.

Job Description
It is your task to optimize the productcritical path in different phases of the product lifecycle.
In the early phases, you have to understand theproto and pilot plan and their different configurations to be able to plan andreport on the timely definition and completeness of bill of material and timelyrelease of design documentation.

Your project plan is the guardrail for a team of Project Coordinators managing their project deliverables and your consolidated view of the Product as a whole.
Introducing new products to customer sitesrequires a balanced spare part and tool stocking strategy – taking into accountinventory cost and customer service.

Next, systems at customers can get productenhancements or upgrades to newer configurations and return materials are beingre-used. As an interface between Development and Supply chain, you are preparing and planning what is needed to execute this.
Towards the volume phase, you drive for a leansupply chain and plan for design maturity and planning maturity. If (new)supply chain issues arise, you are able to take this back to the right development channel via the process of issue resolution management.
You contribute to the further development ofthe Product Lifecycle Management Department as part of Supply Chain Management.
PLM project leads take part in or lead initiatives or improvement projects onboth levels of the  organization.

Project Lead - Product Life Cycle Management Job Requirements

Education
MSc in Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain / Logistics.

Experience
MSc with work experience of more than 5 years of which more than 2 years in new product introductions
Experience in planning and logistics processes in a high-tech, low-volume environment
Experience in process improvement and driving change
Experience in project management

Personal skills
Pro-active problem solver
Stakeholder alignment
Analytical, structure and organizational skills
Team player that communicates effectively
Affinity with a technical environment

Context of the position
SupplyChain Management (SCM) is responsible for all inbound and outbound flows to andfrom the factory.
Product Lifecycle Management Project Leads are part of SCM Product LifecycleManagement.
The holder of this position reports to the manager Product Lifecycle Management. Strong interfaces exist with Development and regular supply chain departments such as Customer Supply Chain Management,Supplier Network Management Planning, Sourcing, Production Planning, System Test and Integration and Procurement.

Key words
Logistics, project lead, supply chain, planning, integration, critical path, time to market, new product logistics,
industrialization, supply and demand balancing, concurrent engineering, project and network planning.

Project Lead - Product Life Cycle Management Application Information

Key words
Logistics, project lead, supply chain, planning, integration, critical path, time to market, new product logistics,
industrialization, supply and demand balancing, concurrent engineering, project and network planning.
 

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