Black Belt - Design for Six Sigma Job in Veldhoven, Netherlands

ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment.

Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that improve the quality of life. To achieve this, our mission is to invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the semiconductor industry.

ASML's guiding principle is continuing Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology, communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment.

Working at ASML
We provide the world’s top chipmakers everything they need to create better performing, cheaper semiconductor chips. Simply put: we are an industry leader supporting industry leaders.

As such, you’ll be encouraged to bring your best ideas and act on them. You’ll have the freedom, trust, and support in your field to experiment and solve complex challenges. Things are rarely dull when you’re constantly breaking new ground.

But despite our fast-paced environment at the forefront of tech, we take your work-life balance and wellbeing seriously. A business is only as good as its employees.

So join us, and you’ll be a part of a global collaboration. One that promotes creativity, the inclusion of highly diverse teams, and an exciting and dynamic work environment. Join us, and you’ll be a part of progress.

Black Belt - Design for Six Sigma Job Description

Introduction
Are you our new Change Agent who would like to develop the Development & Engineering (D&E) competence in the field of Design for Six Sigma Quality by training and coaching architects? Would you lead engineers to achieve better quality of our D&E solutions? This job requires more than excellent technical ability alone, you also need the vision and leadership to inspire, convince and motivate others.

Do you have at least 10 years' of work experience in complex technically driven and international organization. Do you have experience in High Capital, Low Volume market? Do you have proven senior quality management skills?

Job Mission
As a Change Agent, you like to develop the Development & Engineering (D&E) competence in the field of design for Six Sigma / Quality by training and coaching architects and lead engineers to achieve better quality of our DE solutions. Robust Design is an area that is not familiar for all engineers yet, but that is changing rapidly since the customer expects this from ASML. That’s why, as an ASML Black Belt Robust Design, you will not only need excellent technical skills but also the ability to network and communicate with other ASML people to keep the notion of Robust Design at the top of everyone’s mind. You must get involved and stay involved with new module designs and their creators, and maintain Robust Design issues at the level of importance they require.

Job Description
By helping to build further and maintain the ASML Robust Design & Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodology you will play a central role in continuing the commercial success of the world’s leading provider of lithography systems for semiconductors. It is a commercial success that is founded on three business essentials: innovation, time-to-market and a robust design, so your technical skills will be vital.
In addition to those technical skills you will deploy your communication skills and your persistence to continuously influence others and maintain Robust Design as a key performance indicator for the whole of ASML.

You won’t be doing this alone, but also with other sectors within ASML such as Industrial Engineering, Production and Customer Support.

Activities drill down to:
Expert support for complex statistical or DFSS related problems.
Leading or supporting Robust Design projects
Give input into DE DFSS strategy/roadmap.
Influencing the DE organization
Give DFSS training at Green Belt and Yellow Belt level
Coaching of Green Belt trainees.

Black Belt - Design for Six Sigma Job Requirements

Education
(Master) Black Belt - DFSS certification.
Master degree or PhD degree in a technical direction.

Experience
10+ years of work experience in complex technically driven and international organization(s).
Experience in High Capital, Low Volume markets is a plus.
Proven (senior) quality management skills (including Six Sigma).

Personal skills
Excellent change management skills.
Excellent coaching skills.
Excellent communication skills.
Excellent analytical skills.

Context of the position
You will report directly to the senior manager Quality & Robust Design group. The primary internal interfaces are Project Leaders and designers from the subsystem assigned, reliability engineers and other DFSS (Black) Belts.

Within ASML, the sector Development & Engineering (D&E) is responsible for the specification, design and engineering of the ASML products.

In this sector, departments such as Mechatronics, Mechanics and Electronics specify, design and qualify the various modules of the ASML products. Each department consists of discipline and function oriented groups where emphasis lies on particular competences or functions in ASML equipment.

Black Belt - Design for Six Sigma Application Information

The recruiter is Stephan Sonnemans (06-55183097). Please apply via our career site and upload your CV and cover letter. Thanks!
 

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