IT R&D Project Lead (PL)

Introduction

ASML US, including its affiliates and subsidiaries, bring together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market, and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Arizona, San Jose and San Diego, California, Wilton, Connecticut, and Hillsboro, Oregon.

Job Mission

For our IT R&D team in San Jose (Silicon Valley, USA), we are looking for an experienced Project Lead to lead projects concerning the Software Development Environment for our HMI and Brion subsidiaries. Multiple IT and business teams work together to deliver a continuously improving Software Development Environment to engineers developing software at HMI and Brion.

This role includes handling multiple simultaneous projects, balancing priorities and resources across your portfolio.

Duties and Responsibilities

As an IT R&D Project Lead, you drive end-to-end execution of IT projects within the R&D domain, balancing constraints like time, quality and budget.

Main activities:

• Initiation (defining scope and goals)
• Planning (creating schedules, budgets, and resource plans)
• Execution (leading the team and completing tasks)
• Monitoring and Control (tracking progress, managing risks, and controlling changes)
• Closure (finalizing deliverables, documenting lessons learned, evaluating performance, embedding the results / deliverables in the organization).
• Stakeholder management: important stakeholders are the DevOps teams, IT Teams, business management and the IT Service Delivery Manager.
• Clear communication: Provide regular updates to leadership and stakeholders on project status, milestones and blockers.
• Ownership for results: ensuring timely delivery, product quality and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or similar. A Master’s degree is a plus.
• Must have 5 years of proven experience managing IT projects, preferably in software development (SDLC) or R&D environments.
• IPMA / PMI training and certifications are a strong plus
• Experience in large-scale international organizations is a plus.
• Experience working in Agile or hybrid project management methodologies.

Personal Skills

• Strong English communication skills – both written and oral.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross functional team environment.
• Highly organized and transparent.
• Strong presentation skills and being able to convey a message in a structured and concise way.  
• A pro-active, initiating attitude. Ability to actively follow up on items.
• Agile mindset, being able to respond to new insights and changes.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into actionable project plans.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Highly motivated team player, with a strong service/customer orientation.
• Good understanding of tooling used for software development (e.g. CI/CD and testing tools) and the associated infrastructure components.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office suite programs (PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)

Other Information

• This position is located on-site in San Jose , CA .  It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation.

• A flexible workplace arrangement may be available to employees working in roles conducive to remote work (up to two days a week).
• Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

• Must be willing to work in a clean room environment, wearing coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses and gloves for entire duration of shift.
• 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; s