Business Engineer - Business Partner for Planning, Logistics and Facilities (PLF)

Introduction

Do you enjoy having a leading role in steering decision-making to improve the setup and operational processes of organizations in a challenging high-tech manufacturing environment?

Position in the organization

The Business Engineer - Business Partner role is part of the Business Engineering department within the Operational Excellence organization. The Business Engineers collaborate and advise the Planning, Logistics, and Facilities (PLF) leadership teams from a data insights and process improvement standpoint to realize the strategic goals of their specific Departments. The Business Engineer Business Partner is assigned to the PLF department and will be part of the Staff/Management Team of the Head of PLF.

Job Description

Act as the sparring business partner of the Head of PLF and staff members regarding data analysis and insights related to process improvements as well as Business Engineering critical competencies such as resource management, performance management, cycle time, installation cost management, and quality.

The role involves collaboration throughout a broad and complex network of stakeholders across different Departments within PLF as well as outside (e.g., Development & Engineering), including interacting at different leadership levels in the organization. A leading role is taken in defining direction, creating structure, and defining standard work that will ensure sustainable process improvements while securing data integrity and reliability. As a Business Engineer - Business Partner, guidance is provided to other business engineers within the department.

Main responsibilities:

• Develop a clear vision and understanding of how the Business Engineering competencies should be embedded in the PLF department and how they interconnect with other strategic priorities and running processes.
• Prioritize workload and requests for the total PLF department in alignment with the business engineers of the department where applicable. Make recommendations and drive discussions with the Install staff.
• Coach junior business engineers regarding workload and improvement initiatives.
• Work together with the Lean business partner of the PLF department to maintain a unified approach towards driving continuous improvement in the organization in combination with data analytics.
• Define quantitative models to calculate, drive, and mature resource management (e.g., capacity requirement planning models, analysis of workload drivers), which is critical input to the financial planning process.
• Provide insights regarding critical performance metrics (e.g., quality, cycle time, disturbance notifications), ensuring a Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle that facilitates problem-solving analysis and identifies and quantifies improvements.
• Drive and strengthen the Performance Management Framework across the PLF organization (including orchestrating the monthly operational performance reviews and supporting the underpinning of the Hoshin Kanri / Target Setting cascading process).
• Support the Breakthrough projects portfolio of the PLF department by leading the quantification of business cases as well as the definition of other quantitative calculation models and quantitative decision data.
• Manage business analytics requests of the department (e.g., Dashboards, implementation, RPA). Support and advise stakeholders of the PLF department in underpinning requirements, expected business benefits, and connection to overall performance aspects.
• Benchmark the execution of Business Engineering competencies beyond the department (e.g., in other factories/organizations or via the Business Engineering competence center) and identify improvements that could lead to Best Known Methods.
• Prepare presentations for executive management.

Education

Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain Management, or Business Administration.

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Manufacturing, Service, Supply Chain, Engineering, Demand/Supply Planning, Lean, or other related functions combining data insights, operations, and process improvements.
• Knowledge of production, installation, new product Introductions, and service processes in a highly technological environment.
• Experience with Lean manufacturing, Agile, and Continuous Improvement; Six Sigma experience is a plus.
• Change management experience in implementing new ways of working in complex organizations.
• Preference for experience with IT systems in production-control (Excel, SAP, SAP ME/BO, Spotfire).

Personal Skills:

• Ambitious, proactive ‘can-do’ mentality.
• Strong conceptual skills: able to navigate through complex process environments and convert complex (often data-driven) matters to clear overviews and insights.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity; work with assumptions, complex data sets, and create more clarity in processes where accountability is unclear.
• Process thinking and strong change management skills to get improvements implemented.
• Strong communicator: able to tell a story based on data insights; self-assured, capable of convincing people, including at higher management levels.
• Strong command of English is a must.
• Ability to deal with stress.
• Be recognized as a trusted Business partner.

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 Diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

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Work Experience: 4-9 years,10-15 years

Travel: No

Education Level: Master

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Team: Business Process Management

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