Area Manager, Advanced Processing Operations BCELL

Introduction to the job

As an Area Manager
, you will serve as a hands‑on leader, ensuring the safe, on‑time delivery of high‑quality products to both internal and external customers. In this role, you will drive continuous improvement in processes, operational effectiveness, and efficiency across your area of responsibility. You will proactively identify opportunities for enhancement and lead initiatives that elevate overall performance.

You will build and maintain a strong partnership with our sister facility in Berlin, Germany, to exchange best practices and align on operational excellence. In collaboration with Production and Development Engineers, you will play a key role in the adoption and industrialisation of new products and processes.

Success in this role requires a collaborative mindset—you thrive as a team player and take equal pride in the achievements of your team members as in your own.

• Lead and supervise a team of >5 or more direct reports, with an overall organisational scope of more than 30 employees.
• Manage multiple work centres, competencies, or shifts, often involving a broad technical scope and complex, cross‑functional stakeholder engagement.
• Coordinate activities requiring advanced vocational expertise or experienced Bachelor’s‑level thinking, while applying your own academic‑level analysis and decision‑making.

• Lead manufacturing operations within the BCELL area, which includes several advanced optical production processes:
  • Bonding – assembling precision optical components
  • Contacting – joining optical surfaces at a microscopic level for high‑performance systems
  • Etching – shaping and refining surfaces using controlled material removal techniques
  • Lithography – applying patterns to optical surfaces using light‑based processes
  • Laser Processing – using high‑precision laser technology to modify and enhance optical materials
• Manage these processes across multiple shifts in a 24/7 production environment to meet or exceed key performance indicators:
  • Safety, Quality, First Pass Yield, On‑Time Delivery, Lead Time, Labor Productivity, and 5S
• Ensure smooth, continuous operations with strong responsiveness to production issues and escalations
• Enable direct reports (GLs) in production planning, scheduling, and execution in partnership with Business Planning
• Translate customer demand into executable plans aligned with available equipment, workforce, and capacity
• Manage operational and capital budgets to meet performance targets

• Lead a layered organisation of shift managers, team leads, and technicians
• Build, coach, and develop leadership capabilities within direct reports
• Drive employee engagement, inclusion, and team effectiveness
• Ensure retention and development of critical skills and technical expertise
• Act as a visible role model aligned to the ASML Leadership Profile
  :
  • People Leader, Business Leader, Coach, and Culture Carrier
• Lead organisational design and capability transformation aligned to future business needs

• Own Health, Safety & Environment performance across BCELL, with factory‑wide impact
• Ensure compliance with ISO
  9001, ISO
  14001, and internal procedures
• Promote a proactive safety culture and hold teams accountable
• Investigate and drive systemic resolution of quality issues, including craftsmanship‑related defects

• Drive Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives (L3/L4 level)
• Foster a culture of structured problem‑solving, experimentation, and innovation
• Align CI portfolio to factory strategy and quantify business impact
• Challenge teams to identify waste, improve flow, and increase process capability
• Partner closely with Production Engineering to improve process performance and efficiency

• Translate sector strategy into operational plans with a 2–3 year horizon
• Define and implement department KPIs aligned to strategic priorities
• Establish future capacity and resource planning to support demand growth and NPI
• Lead industrialisation of new products and processes with…