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Veldhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

Veldhoven

* Execution of cross-sector structural improvement projects with impact on availability, cycle time, costs and customer satisfaction by preventing and correcting known product and process failures, cross-platform and cross-part.* Roles varying from project co-worker, project lead, workstream lead, architect, quality ambassador, coach.

Veldhoven

• Support successful industrialization of new lithographic scanner modules and components in the ASML factory (new product introduction), in particular wafer table, in situ wafer table cleaning and immersion hood:
• Review manufacturability of new designs (software/hardware)
• Member of the project team during the NPI phase
• Provide 2nd line support in case of production issues during the pilot phase
• Identify structural problems during the NPI phase and provide/pursue solutions for them
• Initiate structural actions for reducing cycle time (e.g. by increasing first pass test yield, proposing modifications in production sequence, optimizing procedures, etc.)

Son

• Specification and introduction of new equipment and processes needed for manufacturing and testing of extremely clean products, e.g. Residual Gas Analysis (RGA), force measurement and adjustment tooling and equipment.
• Optimization of existing processes needed for the manufacturing of extremely clean products.
• Write machine and process instructions for above mentioned processes and equipment.
• Cleanroom expert and process owner of above mentioned processes.

Eindhoven

• Job description: realizing the business targets w.r.t. yield, quality and delivery for certain CCD and CMOS image sensor and module types:
• Initiate actions in order to realize the set yield, quality and delivery targets.
• Initiate short and long term improvement actions.
• Product controller for certain product types (control of specifications, production and test limits, production methods, etc.).
• Trouble shooting/production support
• Analysis of customer returns.

• Job description: responsible for the product creation procedure w.r.t. new electronic components and modules, in particular transformers and complete power conversion solutions:
• Responsible for project plan and budget.
• Monitoring the project progress w.r.t. result, time and money.
• Contact person for customers, production centre’s suppliers and management.
• Responsible for the whole project chain from concept study to industrialization in one of the international production centre’s (Portugal/Mexico/Taiwan/Brazil) or subcontractors (China).
• Manage a multi-disciplinary project team consisting of electrical, mechanical and process engineers.

• Job description:
• Maintenance of existing and development of new interconnection technologies for the fabrication of wire wound components (coils, transformers), in particular on the area of soldering and welding.
• Building up knowledge w.r.t. the above mentioned. fabrication technologies by maintaining contacts with suppliers and research institutes, visiting seminars and fairs and keeping up with literature.
• Disseminate the build up knowledge and giving technical support to the international production centre’s (Portugal, Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil).
• Testing and evaluation of new production means and equipment.

• Job description: maintenance and development of processes for opto-electronic components, in particular semiconductor lasers for telecommunication purposes, with the aim to realize new components and to improve.
• Manufacturing of the above mentioned components by using a broad range of thin film techniques such as photolithographic patterning of etch masks, various wet and dry etching techniques and various wet (galvanic) and.
• Continuous improvement of existing components by optimization of used processes and the development of new (solid state) device structures.
• Transfer of developed processes and products to Development and in some cases directly to Production.
• Development of masks for new structures and components.
• Control and maintenance of part of the clean room equipment.