The posting
Introduction to the job
At ASML, quality is essential to delivering the technology that enables the world’s most advanced semiconductor manufacturing systems. In this advanced field, ASML Motion offers an unique experience to work with high volume modules in a low volume system environment. As Quality Manager Motion Factory, you will lead the local quality organization and ensure quality excellence through data-driven decision making and continuous improvement. Furthermore you will be part of the management team leading the Motion Factory through a Flow transformation. You are supported by a leadership team that recognizes that an independent quality entity is essential for success.
In this role, you will help shape the quality organization to ensure customer trust, compliance and stable quality performance. You will collaborate with experts across multiple disciplines, customers and suppliers to solve challenging quality issues and help drive innovation and business performance.
Role and responsibilities
As a Quality Manager Motion, you will lead strategic quality initiatives, ensure quality governance, and enable quality people leaders to be successful.
You will combine quality expertise, business understanding, and strong leadership skills to deliver lasting impact.
You will:
- Lead a team of quality leaders specialized in product conformance and process effectiveness.
- Develop and maintain local quality governance through quality roadmaps and clear quality escalation paths.
- Govern nonconformance processes and the effectiveness thereof through verification.
- Ensure QMS integrity and audit readiness through standards, document governance and internal audits.
- Ensure change control governance throughout the factory.
- Apply advanced analytics and statistical methods to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Lead quality risk management activities and promote predictable operational outcomes.
- Coach and mentor quality professionals while supporting capability development and training strategies.
- Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders and suppliers to improve quality performance and customer satisfaction.
- Be the main responsible person of quality in the Motion Factory, directly reporting to the site director.
Education and experience
To be successful in this role, you should have:
- Master’s degree in Quality Management, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in quality management, operational excellence, continuous improvement, manufacturing quality, or supplier quality.
- Strong experience with Quality Management Systems, Quality standards, Lean methodologies, Six Sigma, and structured problem-solving techniques.
- Experience working within a global highly regulated manufacturing industry such as healthcare, automotive, aerospace, defense or pharma.
- Proven people leadership at manager of manager level, with demonstrated experience in setting direction through coaching.
- Proven track record of leading cross-functional improvement programs and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
- Experience conducting risk assessments, driving corrective actions, and managing quality-related improvement activities.
- Proven leadership maturity to enable quality that is not compromised by short-term pressure.
Skills
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:
- Drive decisions using facts, data, and risked based thinking.
- Collaborate effectively with engineers, business stakeholders, and external partners.
- Influence stakeholders through strong communication and relationship-building skills on quality expectations and decisions.
- Lead organizational change with a proactive and hands-on mindset.
- Translate customer needs and business objectives into quality improvements.
- Apply critical thinking to resolve complex challenges and identify sustainable solutions.
- Develop people and foster a culture of quality, learning, and continuous improvement through role models, “speak up” behavior and ownership.
- Able to think grey and creative in a black and white quality environment.
- Comfortable with driving a clear vision and shaping structure in a department and environment which is still being developed (both technically and organizationally).
Other information
This position is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, within ASML’s Motion organization. The Quality Manager Motion Factory works closely with business teams, technical experts, customers and suppliers across multiple sectors to drive quality performance and business improvement.
Skills Tags:
Continuous Improvement, Lean Six Sigma Principles, Quality Improvement, Quality Management, Balances stakeholders (behavior), Communicates effectively (behavior), Data Analysis, Embed learnings, Ensures accountability (behavior), Influencing for results, Manages ambiguity (behavior), Manages complexity (behavior), Optimizes work processes (behavior), Problem Solving, Quality Assurance (QA), Risk Management
Inclusion and diversity
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 inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.
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