Area Manager, Advanced Processing Operations BCELL

Introduction to the job

As an Area Manager you will serve as a hands-on leader ensuring the safe on-time delivery of high-quality products to both internal and external this role you will drive continuous improvement in processes operational effectiveness and efficiency across your area of responsibility. You will proactively identify opportunities for enhancement and lead initiatives that elevate overall performance.

You will build and maintain a strong partnership with our sister facility in Berlin Germany to exchange best practices and align on operational collaboration with Production and Development Engineers you will play a key role in the adoption and industrialization of new products and processes.

Success in this role requires a collaborative mindsetyou thrive as a team player and take equal pride in the achievements of your team members as in your own.

• Lead and supervise a team of >5 or more direct reports with an overall organizational scope of more than 30 employees.
• Manage multiple work centers competencies or shifts often involving a broad technical scope and complex cross-functional stakeholder engagement.
• Coordinate activities requiring advanced vocational expertise or experienced Bachelors-level thinking while applying your own academic-level analysis and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

1. Operational Leadership & Delivery

• Lead manufacturing operations within the BCELL area which includes several advanced optical production processes:
  • Bonding assembling precision optical components
  • Contacting joining optical surfaces at a microscopic level for high-performance systems
  • Etching shaping and refining surfaces using controlled material removal techniques
  • Lithography applying patterns to optical surfaces using light-based processes
  • Laser Processing using high-precision laser technology to modify and enhance optical materials
• Manage these processes across multiple shifts in a 24/7 production environment to meet or exceed key performance indicators:
  • Safety Quality First Pass Yield On-Time Delivery Lead Time Labor Productivity and 5S
• Ensure smooth continuous operations with strong responsiveness to production issues and escalations
• Enable direct reports (GLs) in production planning scheduling and execution in partnership with Business Planning
• Translate customer demand into executable plans aligned with available equipment workforce and capacity
• Manage operational and capital budgets to meet performance targets

2. People Leadership & Organization Development

• Lead a layered organization of shift managers team leads and technicians
• Build coach and develop leadership capabilities within direct reports
• Drive employee engagement inclusion and team effectiveness
• Ensure retention and development of critical skills and technical expertise
• Act as a visible role model aligned to the ASML Leadership Profile:
  • People Leader Business Leader Coach and Culture Carrier
• Lead organizational design and capability transformation aligned to future business needs

3. Safety Quality & Compliance

• Own Health Safety & Environment performance across BCELL with factory-wide impact
• Ensure compliance with ISO9001 ISO14001 and internal procedures
• Promote a proactive safety culture and hold teams accountable
• Investigate and drive systemic resolution of quality issues including craftsmanship-related defects

4. Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence

• Drive Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives (L3/L4 level)
• Foster a culture of structured problem-solving experimentation and innovation
• Align CI portfolio to factory strategy and quantify business impact
• Challenge teams to identify waste improve flow and increase process capability
• Partner closely with Production Engineering to improve process performance and efficiency

5. Strategy Planning & Capability Development

• Translate sector strategy into operational plans with a 23 year horizon
• Define and implement department KPIs aligned to strategic priorities
• Establish future capacity and resource planning to support demand growth and NPI
• Lead industrialization of new products and processes with cross-functional teams
• Drive organizational readiness for future technology and volume ramps

6. Stakeholder & Cross-Sector Collaboration

• Build strong partnerships across:
  • Production Engineering
  • Supply Chain / Business Planning
  • Development & NPI teams
  • Sister factories (Onsite and offsite)
• Influence stakeholders across functions and leadership levels (up to senior management)
• Represent BCELL operations in cross-sector initiatives and decision-making processes

7. Governance Reporting & Decision-Making

• Provide clear operational insights KPI performance tracking and risk assessments
• Deliver actionable recommendations and drive decision-making
• Ensure transparency and alignment through structured reporting and tiered meetings
• Make data-driven decisions with strong business and operational judgment

Requirements

Education

• Bachelors Degree required (Engineering or related field preferred) 1015 years in manufacturing operations preferably high-mix technical environments
• Masters Degree (Engineering or related field preferred) 5-10 years in manufacturing operations preferably high-mix technical environments

Experience

• Proven experience leading leaders in a complex multi-shift production environment
• Strong Lean/Continuous Improvement background with demonstrated results
• Experience in optics manufacturing coating or metrology preferred
• Knowledge of ERP systems (SAP preferred) and manufacturing systems
• Experience working in ISO-certified environments
• Limited experience of planning managing and organizing resources within short to medium timescales within the overall policy framework.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard finger handle and feel; stoop kneel crouch twist reach and stretch
• The employee is occasionally required to move around the campus
• The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds
• May require travel dependent on company needs
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• The environment generally is moderate in temperature and noise level
• Must be able to read and interpret data information and documents
• 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.

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship

Additional Responsibilities:

There is potential for exposure to strong magnetic fields high voltage and currents.

This position requires access to controlled technology as defined in the United States 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.

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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