In this role, you work for the Product Lifecycle Management department (within Strategic Sourcing & Procurement organization) as part of a cross-departmental R&D team. This means you’ll be balancing a broad range of stakeholders both from within your cross-functional project team and from the supply chain management department. You’ll be supporting technology-driven development projects by finding creative supply chain solutions that not only meet your stakeholders needs but also help bring the supply chain management department to the next level.
If you are ready for a second or third step in your career in the Supply Chain sector, this role would be perfect for you!
Role and responsibilities
The parts life cycle management department prides itself on its tight collaboration with other departments and teams across the company, and for securing material availability without fail. Specific responsibilities for this role include:
Creating a project plan and maintaining it; Incorporating logistics requirements into designs;
Ordering materials in order to ensure availability; Conducting logistics risk analyses; Securing and allocating financial resources for packaging and customer tooling
Proactively managing materials availability by making sure the bill of material (raw materials list) and technical product drawings required for a particular part are available on schedule;
Creating transparent parts supply and demand schedules; Creating decision sheets for late materials;
Determining the consequences that proposed plan changes have on the supply chain
Creating, aligning, and monitoring implementation plans for engineering changes, while safeguarding the impact on material timing, cost and quality
Contributing to the further development of the product life cycle management department
Education and experience
MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain / Logistics
Up to 7 years of experience in planning, logistics processes and quality in a high-tech, low-volume environment, and in ramping up new products
Experience as a project engineer in a high-tech, low volume environment (e.g. supply chain engineering; production engineering)
Experience in process development and IT-related process automation
Experience in driving improvements
Skills
Assertive, proactive problem solving skills
Ensuring accountability
Strong planning and alignment skills
Stakeholder management; Persuasion skills
Customer focus
Collaboration; team player orientation
Able to manage ambiguity; Resilience
Other Information
People are our single most valuable asset. In product life cycle management, our management team works with our project coordinators to help develop both their hard and soft skills through dedicated training programs. We keep an eye on their progress through a transparent training matrix dashboard.
Working environment
A total of 120> people currently work in the Product Lifecycle Management department, divided over four business lines. You’ll be part of a team of 8–12 project coordinators, headed by a team lead, who will guide your personal development and oversee the development of processes within their team. Your team lead reports to a group leader, who in turn reports to the department director. The department’s other two teams include one team of operationally-focused product life cycle management project leaders, and one team of strategically-focused supply chain management project leaders.
Meetings
Being ‘in the middle’ between R&D teams and supply chain management means you’ll spend a significant amount of time in meetings with various stakeholders. You can expect to be a part of the following types of meetings:
Development and engineering (R&D) project meetings;
Calls with suppliers to align on materials availability and planning;
‘Escalation’ meetings as part of a ‘tiger team’ managing urgent materials issues;
Alignment meetings with system integration teams and production planning teams to discuss challenges in building prototypes and pilots;
Alignment meetings to manage engineering changes related to introducing new materials in our supply chain, factories and customer locations.
Stakeholders
Inner circle: team leaders and project managers from both product life cycle management and supply chain management.
Middle circle: R&D project managers, supplier quality engineers, manufacturing engineers, customer support engineers and supply coordinators.
Outer circle: configuration change specialists, sourcing leads, purchasers, logistics supply managers and field modification planners.
Read what other parts life cycle management project coordinators have to say:
Michaella (age 28): “As a PLM PC, you are responsible for ensuring material availability and driving NPI projects to volume readiness. This role offers different and unique daily challenges; allowing you to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and engaging in both tactical and strategic discussions. We have an excellent onboarding process which sets you up for success and supportive PLM community that fosters collaboration and knowledge-sharing. This dynamic environment makes the role rewarding and fulfilling.”
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.
Diversity and inclusionASML 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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