Head of Nearfield Academy

Nearfield Instruments develops advanced metrology solutions for the semiconductor industry. Our technology helps the world’s leading chipmakers measure and control increasingly complex manufacturing processes, enabling the next generation of semiconductor innovation.

Founded in 2016, we have grown from an ambitious start-up into a rapidly expanding global scale-up. As our product portfolio and international organization grow, developing technical knowledge and practical capabilities across our global engineering teams becomes increasingly important.

To support this growth, we are looking for a Head of Nearfield Academy who will build and scale our global technical training organization.

As Head of Nearfield Academy, you will define and lead the technical learning strategy for Nearfield’s product portfolio. Your goal is to give our engineers the steepest possible learning curve, from onboarding through expert-level specialization.

You will build a scalable training ecosystem that enables engineers to develop the practical skills required to install, maintain, troubleshoot, upgrade, and support our systems. By accelerating technical competency, you will directly contribute to service excellence, field readiness, customer success, and the continued growth of Nearfield.

This is a role with significant ownership in a fast-paced scale-up environment. You will lead a dedicated team and work closely with Service, Applications, Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Operations, and Customer Support.

• Define and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Nearfield Academy.

• Build and lead a team responsible for training development, coordination, and delivery.

• Establish the Academy as a strategic enabler of service excellence, customer success, and organizational scalability.

• Develop a comprehensive skills matrix for the technical roles supporting our systems.

• Define competency requirements and certification criteria for engineers at different stages of their careers.

• Create structured learning paths that support onboarding, continued development, and expert-level specialization.

• Develop qualification and certification programmes that objectively assess technical readiness and capability.

• Build a comprehensive technical curriculum covering system architecture, product operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, applications, safety, and compliance.

• Capture expert knowledge and translate it into practical, scalable learning materials.

• Ensure training content remains aligned with product roadmaps, engineering releases, and insights from the field.

• Identify capability gaps and develop targeted programmes that improve field autonomy and service self-sufficiency.

• Reduce dependency on expert escalations by systematically transferring knowledge and practical skills into the field organization.

• Create a scalable global training model that combines instructor-led, hands-on, virtual, remote, digital, and self-paced learning.

• Oversee the effective use of cleanroom facilities, training systems, modules, classrooms, and virtual learning environments.

• Ensure effective planning, scheduling, and execution of all Academy activities.

• Define and monitor KPIs related to competency development, certification, time-to-productivity, training effectiveness, and asset utilization.

• Ensure training readiness for new product introductions and major technology releases.

You are an experienced technical learning leader who is passionate about developing people and building technical excellence.

You understand that effective technical training goes beyond creating presentations or organizing courses. It requires a clear…