Software quality manager

Are you eager to apply your management skills in a challenging high-tech environment? Are you challenged by driving quality in a team of highly skilled technical people with a design focus? Do you have affinity with design processes in a technical environment? Then this job position could be your steppingstone to further develop yourself in an interesting ASML career.

Role and Responsibilities

As a Software Quality Manager you take responsibility for the definition, alignment and execution of a department’s Quality strategy and roadmap.

The mission is to support and strengthen software development by ensuring and improving Quality Control, reducing risks, driving Improvement and Assurance providing insight on D&E processes and deliverables with a predictable outcome. With a continuous growing demand for faster delivery of latest technology, good Quality and reliability becomes more and more challenging. This means that our processes must become more effective and efficient. We do this by monitoring and driving success pro-actively ensuring product Quality (Quality control), securing process adherence and implement lessons learned (Quality assurance) and continuously improve our WoW (Quality improvement).

The Q Manager will take part in department staff meetings and will participate in the DE Q team meeting of Quality Managers, to align the quality improvement projects and facilitate leverage with Q activities in the rest of ASML. The Q manager will report (solid line) to the Cluster Quality Manager. The Q manager will also:

• Co-defines and aligns the software department’s quality strategy as member of the department management staff

• Executes and reports on process improvement projects as part of the quality strategy at department level and/or sector level.

• Leads/participates in project teams in analyzing process gaps, identifying improvements, support implementation and securing consolidation within the department.

• Provides input from department into cluster and sector Quality roadmap and vice versa and reports on quality status, communicates quality message in groups, on department level and on Business Unit level, triggers improvement actions. Improves transparency.

• Supports, reviews and coaches project teams and their engineers on the quality of technical solutions proposed and deliverables produced.

• Enables the staff to execute their accountability in quality control by maintaining and deploying department’s processes, providing regular reporting on process adherence to department managers, group leaders and project leaders.

• Facilitates the Feedback loop and Lessons Learned in the various departmental groups and competences and manages departmental Technical Competences and chairs regular meetings with competence leaders.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in software, Applied Physics, Electrical / Mechanical /Mechatronic Engineering or (technical) Quality management.

• More than 5 years of work experience in technically driven international organization(s),

• Software definition, development, test and/or deployment experience.

• Experience as project manager, program manager or line/quality manager.

• Experienced in quality methods and tools like e.g., 6 Sigma, value stream analysis, 5 Why’s analysis, Kaizen, brainstorming sessions, problem solving techniques, FMEA, 8D, Ishikawa diagrams.

• Optional: Knowledgeable in international quality standards. (ISO9001/14001/ TS16949), process assessments and audits.

• Ability to manage complex relationships between various professional disciplines and organizational levels and excellent stakeholder management and team leader skills, able to collaborate across all levels of the organization with an open attitude.

• Excellent ability to manage change with the ability to overcome resistance and persist in achieving mission.

• Strong communication skills, good listener, with the ability to present information verbally and in written format.

• Self-propelling - learning & (Quality) improvement mindset and change management.

• Hands-on mentality to get the job done and drive for continuous improvement; making use of the lessons learned and strong analytical ability with a pragmatic attitude.

• Good knowledge of English.

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

Travel: 10%

Education Level: Bachelor,Master

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Team: Quality

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