Job Description

Introduction to the job

The Project lead has 2 major job roles -

Critical Material Escalation (CME) is a core mechanism within ASML’s supply chain and quality ecosystem, ensuring transparency, stability, and timely resolution of risks associated with critical materials. The CME role is essential in driving cross‑functional alignment, enabling proactive decision-making, and safeguarding material availability for production and field operations. This CME position represents the factory side in critical‑material–related escalations. The role is responsible for driving alignment across related SS&P partner. While formal CME reports and tracking documents (e.g., weekly CME Summary Report) are owned and maintained by the relevant SS&P teams, this role ensures that planning perspectives, factory priorities, and operational constraints are clearly communicated and incorporated into cross-functional mitigation plans. Initiate and manage cross sectors process improvement project. Dig into the high impact process to the factory while with blur role and responsibility which cause unclarity and inefficiency. Initiate projects to improve and built up organized and lean process from end to end with cross sectors.

Role and responsibilities

As project manager, your main responsibilities are:

• Act as the Linkou factory representative, driving cross-functional stakeholders to align on root causes, mitigation actions, recovery plans, and feasible timelines for CME materials.

• Communicate on behalf of the factory side with related stakeholders (SS&P/P&D or even suppliers) to ensure material risks are addressed in line with factory build plans and output requirements.

• Review and provide planning input to CME meeting host to ensure feasibility and operational accuracy

• Participate in CME meetings, ensuring planning viewpoints are highlighted and risk assessments correctly reflect factory priorities.

• Ensure planning execution feasibility by validating that recovery actions, supplier commitments, and internal mitigation steps are aligned with build schedules and customer demand.

• Coordinate cross-functional communication and follow-through to eliminate blockers and secure timely actions from all involved parties.

• ·For cross sectors process improvement

• Being able to conduct the VSM with cross sectors to identify the process gap

• Initiating the cross sector process improvement projects to drive for improvement.

• Measure the project outcomes and turn the project into operations.

Education and experience

• Bachelor or Master degree of industry management/engineering

• 10 years and above working as Supply Chain Management in high-tech environment

Skills

• Strong logical thinking and structured work approach

• High attention to detail with strong organizational discipline

• Excellent communication skills, able to convey complex issues clearly

• Proven ability in cross‑team coordination and stakeholder alignment

• Solid analytical and problem‑solving capability

• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment

• Proactive mindset with the ability to drive actions and follow‑through

• Project management skills

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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