NXE Production Engineering Project Lead

About ASML and the Wilton Site

ASML develops advanced technology that helps semiconductor manufacturers produce the microchips found in many everyday products. Our global teams work together to advance semiconductor technology and solve some of the industry’s most complex challenges.

Our Wilton, Connecticut location is ASML’s largest research, development, and manufacturing site in the United States. Teams in Wilton specialize in mechatronics, alignment and sensor technology, and optical fabrication. They design and manufacture high-value modules and sensors that support ASML’s lithography and metrology systems.

Introduction to the Job

As a Senior Project Lead, Production Engineering , you will lead complex projects that improve manufacturing performance across multiple products and production areas. You will help translate technical and operational challenges into sustainable solutions that improve quality, efficiency, cost, and production readiness.

You will also play an important role in introducing new products into the factory. By coordinating engineering, production, program, and support teams, you will help ensure that manufacturing processes are ready for current and future demand.

Role and Responsibilities

The Senior Project Lead, Production Engineering provides cross-functional leadership without relying on direct reporting authority. You will use production data, technical judgment, and structured problem-solving to establish priorities and drive projects through completion.

• Lead structural improvements that reduce cycle time, labor hours, quality risks, and workflow inefficiencies.
• Manage complex production engineering projects across multiple products or manufacturing areas.
• Monitor performance dashboards, investigate trends, and coordinate root-cause and failure-analysis activities.
• Prioritize structural production issues and drive timely resolution with engineering and manufacturing teams.
• Manage capital investment requirements and spending while balancing technical needs, budgets, and operational impact.
• Coordinate new-product industrialization, including factory readiness, build sequencing, qualification, and implementation risks.
• Present project status, performance metrics, risks, and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.

Education and Experience

To succeed as a Senior Project Lead, Production Engineering, you will need:

• A bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, optical, chemical, industrial, or mechatronics engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline with eight or more years of relevant experience.
• Alternatively, a master’s degree in a related technical discipline with five or more years of relevant experience.
• At least three years of experience leading people, projects, or cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Experience in production engineering, project management, manufacturing, or new-product industrialization.
• Experience managing capital budgets and coordinating projects across multiple stakeholders.
• Knowledge of root-cause analysis, failure analysis, and structured continuous improvement methods.
• Experience using enterprise resource planning systems and reporting tools such as SAP and Power BI.
• Familiarity with Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, or comparable improvement methodologies.

Skills

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve - and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.

To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• Lead cross-functional teams and create alignment around shared priorities.
• Analyze complex production data and convert findings into practical recommendations.
• Communicate technical risks and project status clearly to varied audiences.
• Balance urgent production needs with long-term structural improvements.
• Make informed decisions when timelines, priorities, or requirements change.
• Build productive relationships across manufacturing, engineering, and program teams.
• Mentor colleagues and model ASML’s values of challenge, collaborate, and care.
• Maintain ownership of actions, budgets, risks, and project outcomes.

Other Information

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the 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.

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 identify. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

The current base salary range for this role is currently- $135,375-$198,000

The current base annual salary range for this role is currently:

Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.

The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US.

All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.

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.

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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