Production Engineering Manager- Compressed Work Week (CWW) Days

ASML US, LP. (US30); Wilton (CT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ASML US, LP. is seeking a Team Lead First Line Support Production Engineer for the Wilton Factory, CT. The role leads the First Line Support team, provides technical guidance, and ensures safety, quality, and production targets are met on shift.

You will coordinate daily activities, escalate technical issues, and act as the main communication link between the floor, Production Engineering, and leadership. Strong engineering and people management skills are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline with 2+ years in production/manufacturing engineering.
• 5+ years in a high-tech production/manufacturing environment with hands-on engineering in optical fabrication, assembly, or advanced manufacturing.
• Minimum 2 years of direct people management.

Responsibilities

• Oversee First Line Support personnel during the assigned shift to ensure resources are aligned to production priorities, technical needs, and shift objectives.
• Provide accountable technical support by guiding troubleshooting activities and helping drive timely resolution of production issues.
• Coordinate work across the shift to ensure tasks are assigned, prioritized, followed up, and completed according to safety, quality, and production standards.
• Serve as the primary shift point of contact for technical escalation, resource alignment, and communication between team members, Production Engineering, Manufacturing, and leadership.
• Monitor shift progress, identify risks or gaps early, and take appropriate action to maintain workflow, output, quality, and cycle time expectations.
• Train, coach, and mentor employees during onboarding and ongoing daily execution to ensure trainings follow established guidelines.
• Attend Tier 2 meetings daily to capture critical information and cascade down to the team.

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

5+ years in high-tech production/manufacturing environment

2+ years people management

Job description

Introduction to the role

ASML US, LP brings 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, the Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Wilton, CT, Chandler, AZ and San Jose, CA.

ASML is the world's leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits or microchips.

This position is for a Team Lead First Line Support Production Engineer to work in the Production Engineering department in Wilton Factory, CT. The candidate will oversee First Line Support personnel during the assigned shift, provide technical support and guidance to the team, coordinate daily work activities, and ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with production, quality, and engineering requirements. The Team Lead will also support rapid resolution of engineering disturbance notices, drive execution against production priorities, and act as a key communication point between the work floor, Production Engineering, Manufacturing, and leadership.

We have TWO openings

• Compressed Work Week (CWW) Front End Days (10am-10pm) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, every other Wednesday
• Compressed Work Week (CWW) Back End Days (10am-10pm) every other Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday

Role and responsibilities

• Oversee First Line Support personnel during the assigned shift to ensure resources are aligned to production priorities, technical needs, and shift objectives.
• Provide accountable technical support by guiding troubleshooting activities, reviewing engineering disturbance notices, and helping drive timely resolution of production issues.
• Coordinate work across the shift to ensure tasks are assigned, prioritized, followed up, and completed according to safety, quality, and production standards.
• Serve as the primary shift point of contact for technical escalation, resource alignment, and communication between team members, Production Engineering, Manufacturing, and leadership.
• Monitor shift progress, identify risks or gaps early, and take appropriate action to maintain workflow, output, quality, and cycle time expectations.
• Support team members with coaching, knowledge sharing, and on-the-floor technical guidance to improve capability, consistency, and execution
• Be able to recognize the gaps within the team, develop and implement short-term containments and structural solutions for improvement whether communication, training, etc.
• Escalate structural process or procedural issues to the Competency Production Engineering team and serve as a consultant for the solution space
• Present daily shift reports, production status, quality concerns, barriers, and improvement actions to support decision-making and quality improvement efforts, to ensure the information passed down to the next shift precisely and timely manner
• Support root-cause analysis, cycle-time improvement, manufacturing procedures, and technical work instructions as required.
• Train, coach, and mentor employees during onboarding, training periods, and ongoing daily execution upon request, to ensure the trainings is strictly followed the FLS established training guidelines
• Coordinate and track employees time-off to ensure that there is always at least one employee present for each work center on each shift
• Work in a cleanroom environment occasionally to support production processes and lead troubleshooting actions, including full gowning, working around overhead cranes, fork trucks, motorized pallet movers, lasers, ladders, platforms, and chemicals.
• Attend and support cycle time meeting presented by Product Lead group bi-weekly upon request, collaborate with PLs and cascade information/request down to the team to improve productivity
• This position is compressed work week(CWW) 12hrs/day from 10:00 am to 10:00 PM (more details during interview session)
• Required to attend all Tier 2 meetings every day to capture critical information, help request and cascade down to the team, and other meeting upon request

Education and experience

• Bachelor Degree in an engineering discipline a Bachelor Degree in in Science (Physic , Material, Math, Chemical) with 2+ years of experience in production or Manufacturing Engineering.
• 5+ years of work experience in a high-tech production or manufacturing environment, preferably with hands-on engineering support in optical fabrication, assembly, or advanced manufacturing.
• A minimum of 2 years of direct people management

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