Manufacturing - Performance and Cost Improvement Manager- Linkou

Role and Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership & Strategy

• Lead, coach, and develop the Means & Methods and Business Engineering teams to meet operational and strategic goals.
• Define team roadmap aligned with ASML global priorities, factory priorities, transformation initiatives, and business needs.
• Foster a collaborative, data‑driven culture with strong communication and cross‑team alignment.
• Prioritize team workload, manage stakeholder expectations, and influence without authority across departments.

2. Performance Management & Cost Management

• Maintain up‑to‑date visibility of WIP, output status, and capacity utilization; conduct capacity and scenario planning.
• Identify and predict manufacturing bottlenecks, providing persuasive analysis to support leadership decision‑making.
• Design, standardize, and manage KPI dashboards and performance reporting systems for factory leadership.
• Develop annual planning that support cost optimization, labor efficiency, and cycle time improvements.

3. Enterprise Resource Planning, System Integration & Digital Transformation

• Oversee support and enhancement of enterprise applications such as SAP, MES, and other factory operation systems.
• Lead cross‑functional system development projects, including requirements gathering, process design, functional specifications, and UAT.
• Drive rollout and integration of smart‑factory applications to improve end‑to‑end operational flow.

4. Advanced Data Analytics & Insight Generation

• Guide teams in data preparation, processing, modeling, and report generation for business insights.
• Promote use of advanced analytics, and process mining to identify improvement opportunities.
• Ensure analyses lead to actionable insights, supporting business cases and leadership decision‑making.
• Review and refine data visualizations and storytelling approaches to communicate insights effectively.

5. Stakeholder Collaboration & Project Management

• Act as a key liaison between manufacturing, engineering, planning & logistics, and other global teams.
• Ensure timely communication of project progress, risks, requirements, and roadmap status.
• Oversee project governance, ensuring alignment, resource planning, and execution quality across both teams.
• Encourage structured problem‑solving, risk identification, and proactive mitigation across initiatives.

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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