New Product Industrialization Engineer

Introduction to the job

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.

As a Mechatronics New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineer within Development & Engineering, you will be operating in a fast paced and multidisciplinary development environment.  Using a combination of technical and personal skills, the NPI engineers develops and maintains a relationship with our suppliers to drive the industrialization efforts of the manufacturing process of mechanical components and parts. This individual works closely with the suppliers and ASML cross-sector development teams to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of the product generation process, in alignment with the ASML project.  The main goal of this cross sector activity is to secure an excellent quality of parts delivered by our suppliers.

Roles and responsibilities

Within the D&E organization, the Mechatronics NPI engineer is the primary person responsible for creating an optimal engineering collaboration between the mechanical suppliers and ASML, starting from early supplier involvement through product design and maturity. As part of the D&E project team, this individual  works closely with their suppliers to understand and leverage their technology and processes and integrate these processes into the ASML new product development projects to drive industrialization efforts.

NOTE: This is a technical position in a highly technical company and not a general Quality Assurance/Black Belt/Lean Manufacturing role.  The ideal candidate has a combination of a strong technical/manufacturing expertise combined with a quality assurance background.

The main responsibilities are:

• Early supplier involvement in the D&E project to secure that technology expertise of co-development and supplier are merged in the best way.
• Ensure that part quality, manufacturability and serviceability aspects are covered in the design phase.
• Document the D&E project collaboration, including supplier & co-development  responsibilities and roles via a Statement of Work (SoW).
• Support and own new product introduction (NPI) and support early supplier selection and engagement.
• Deliverables that secure parts quality from suppliers in the co-development product generation process, such as:
• Acceptance of the design and/or specification of complete & detailed parts qualification process
• Acceptance of qualified parts
• Process flow and Process failure mode effect analysis
• First article inspection
• Business demands will require travel (~20% but could be more during escalation situations and with notice)

Define and maintain supplier interface processes, such as:

• Issue resolution
• Qualification deviation
• Configuration management
• ASML factory disturbances

Contribute to supplier development to improve operational excellence by driving execution of existing agreements, improvement actions, and participation in supplier audits. The NPI eng is part of the D&E project team and, therefore, interfaces with project leaders, design engineers, architects, manufacturing & customer support engineers, logistics, procurement, etc.

Education and experience         

Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, (or similar)

BS with minimum of 2 years' work experience

Master's Degree

Based on the education level as outlined above, relevant work experience must have taken place as an experienced designer or process engineer who has gained experience in the areas of Quality systems and methodologies (Six Sigma Green or Black belt), as well as direct manufacturing and/or engineering experience including:

• Manufacturing techniques including 5 axis CNC machining, EDM, bonding and joining, materials, coatings, and precision measurement
• Experience in at least one of the following:  Precision mechanics, opto-mechanics, electro-mechanics, and laser modules.
• Technical improvement projects in supply chain operations
• Value Engineering