Quality Program Leader

Introduction to the Job

ASML US, including its affiliates and subsidiaries, bring together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics.

Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, Netherlands and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Arizona, San Jose and San Diego, California, Wilton, Connecticut, and Hillsboro, Oregon.

ASML Wilton, Connecticut is seeking a Quality Program Leader to serve as the organizational leader for quality across the Wilton Factory. This role is a key leadership position within the Quality organization, responsible for establishing quality direction, strengthening factory-wide quality governance, owning the Wilton Factory Quality Management System, ensuring audit readiness, and driving sustained improvement in product quality, process capability, defect prevention, and measurable factory quality outcomes.

This leader will ensure that quality is understood, owned, and executed as a factory-wide priority, translating business, customer, supplier, and process performance signals into prioritized actions that improve quality performance and strengthen the Wilton Factory quality culture.

Role and Responsibilities

This is a critical leadership role within the Wilton Factory, responsible for enterprise-level quality leadership, factory quality governance, Quality Management System ownership, audit readiness, and end-to-end alignment of quality priorities across the Wilton value stream
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Wilton Factory Quality Leadership

• Serve as the organizational quality leader for Wilton Factory
  , setting direction, priorities, governance, and expectations for quality performance across factory operations.
• Lead, develop, coach, and performance-manage a team of direct reports, setting clear expectations, fostering strong engagement, building capability, and ensuring individual and team performance supports Wilton Factory quality priorities.
• Lead the development and execution of the Wilton Factory quality strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities, customer expectations, global quality standards, and operational performance goals.
• Own the Wilton Factory Quality Management System
  , ensuring it is effective, current, compliant, and embedded into daily operations, standards, controls, and leadership routines.
• Ensure Wilton Factory maintains strong audit readiness for internal, customer, regulatory, and certification-related audits, including effective preparation, response, corrective action, and sustainment.
• Translate quality performance signals, customer feedback, supplier input, factory data, and risk indicators into clear priorities, improvement roadmaps, and measurable outcomes
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• Establish and monitor measurable factory quality outcomes such as defect reduction, escape reduction, first-pass yield improvement, repeat issue prevention, audit finding closure, process capability improvement, and corrective action effectiveness.
• Partner closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Supplier Quality, Customer Support, and global Quality to ensure alignment on containment, root cause, corrective action, prevention, and sustainment.
• Provide regular executive-level reporting on factory quality performance, systemic risks, improvement progress, audit readiness, QMS health, and strategic quality priorities
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Factory Quality Governance & Cross-Functional Alignment

• Establish and sustain effective quality governance across Wilton Factory
  , ensuring quality priorities are visible, owned, and actively managed across functions.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supplier Quality, Supply Chain, Customer Support, and Operational Excellence to address systemic quality gaps impacting factory performance
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• Ensure effective quality handoffs, learning loops, and corrective action sustainment between suppliers, Wilton operations, downstream factories, and customer-facing organizations.
• Strengthen factory participation in global quality forums, cross-sector quality initiatives, and enterprise-level improvement routines.

Quality Management System & Audit Readiness

• Own and continuously improve the Wilton Factory…