SS&P - Product Lifecycle Management Project Coordinator - Linkou

Introduction to the job

In this role, you work for the Product Lifecycle Management department (within Strategic Sourcing & Procurement organization) as part of a cross-departmental R&D team. This means you’ll be balancing a broad range of stakeholders both from within your cross-functional project team and from the supply chain management department. You’ll be supporting technology-driven development projects by finding creative supply chain solutions that not only meet your stakeholders’ needs but also help bring the supply chain management department to the next level. Additionally, you will support the large-scale transfer of currently produced parts from across the globe towards Asia and be a valuable partner for the Transfer Team during the transfer phases. This includes supporting supplier readiness, ensuring logistical availability and quality assurance.

Role and responsibilities

The parts life cycle management department prides itself on its tight collaboration with other departments and teams across the company, and for securing material availability without fail. Specific responsibilities for this role include:

• Creating an integrated project plan and maintaining key milestones; Incorporating logistics requirements into designs;

• Ordering materials in order to ensure availability; Conducting logistics risk analyses; Securing and allocating financial resources for packaging and customer tooling

• Proactively managing materials availability by making sure the bill of material (raw materials list) and technical product drawings required for a particular part are available on schedule;

• Creating transparent parts supply and demand schedules;

• Evaluating the consequences that proposed plan changes have on the supply chain

• Creating, aligning, and monitoring implementation plans for engineering changes, while safeguarding the impact on material timing, cost and quality

• Contributing to the further development of the product life cycle management department

• Own continuity of supply — n-tier capacity checks, buffer and last-time buy strategies, and risk identification with mitigations.

• Support and execute technical release procedures to ensure quality and prevent (hard)downs in the factory — first build/qualification milestones, Factory Integration Testing and release criteria following Transfer Methodology.

• Manage escalations across suppliers/factories/engineering — resolve bottlenecks and prevent recurrence through collaboration with the SAT and Transfer Team to find root-causes of issues and solutions, sharing lessons learned.

• Provide structured input for owned Cross-overplanning — tooling ownership, NRE, packaging/customer tooling budgets and D&S/buffer planning.

Education and experience

• MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain / Logistics

• Up to 7 years of experience in planning, logistics processes and quality in preferably high-tech, low-volume environment, and in ramping up new products

• Project management related experience preferably in a high-tech, low volume environment (e.g. supply chain engineering; new product logistics)

• Experience in driving process development and process improvements

​ Skills

• Root cause analysis and proactively drive improvements for process / system

• Ensuring accountability of deliverables of cross-sector stakeholders

• Proficient planning and alignment skills

• Stakeholder management - influence without authority; Persuasion and collaboration skills

• Customer focus

• Team player orientation

• Able to manage ambiguity; Resilience

• Learning agility to drive self development

Other Information

People are our single most valuable asset. In product life cycle management, our management team works with our project coordinators to help develop both their hard and soft skills through dedicated training programs.

Working environment

A total of 120> people currently work in the Product Lifecycle Management department, divided over four business lines. You’ll be part of a team of 8–12 project coordinators, headed by a team lead, who will guide your personal development. The department’s other teams include one team of operationally-focused product life cycle management project leaders, and one team of strategically-focused supply chain management project leaders.

Meetings

Being ‘in the middle’ between R&D teams and supply chain management means you’ll spend a significant amount of time in meetings with various stakeholders. Examples include:

• Development and engineering (R&D) project meetings;

• Calls with suppliers to align on materials availability and planning;

• ‘Escalation’ meetings as part of a ‘tiger team’ managing urgent materials issues;

• Alignment meetings to manage engineering changes related to introducing new materials in our supply chain, factories and customer locations.

Stakeholders

• Inner circle: team leaders and project managers from both product life cycle management and supply chain management.

• Middle circle: R&D project managers, supplier quality engineers, manufacturing engineers, customer support engineers and supply coordinators.

• Outer circle: configuration change specialists, sourcing leads, purchasers, logistics supply managers and field modification planners.

Read what other parts life cycle management project coordinators have to say:

 “As a PLM PC, you are responsible for ensuring material availability and driving NPI projects to volume readiness. This role offers different and unique daily challenges; allowing you to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and engaging in both tactical and strategic discussions. We have an excellent onboarding process which sets you up for success and supportive PLM community that fosters collaboration and knowledge-sharing. This dynamic environment makes the role rewarding and fulfilling.”

"The dynamic environment of product lifecycle management presents multiple opportunities to develop yourself. The fun, young, and energetic colleagues make this department a very nice place to work. As a PLM PC you are a project member of the D&E team and work closely with ASML's suppliers. Balancing the many stakeholders while securing material availability is an exciting challenge!"

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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