Shutdown & Turnaround Manager

ASML is a high-tech company and leading supplier to the semiconductor industry. We manufacture complex lithography machines used by chip manufacturers to produce integrated circuits or computer chips. What we do is at the heart of all electronic devices that inform, entertain and connect us. More than 20,000 employees develop and manufacture key components for ASML lithography systems at our facilities in the Netherlands.

It is essential that ASML's property, plants and equipment, buildings, real estate and services are maintained at a consistently high level to realize our growth targets. The Corporate Real Estate (CRE) organization is a centralized department that is responsible for CRE activities worldwide, serving >40,000 employees.
 

As the Shutdown & Turnaround Manager you are responsible for the program management of all CRE’s planned asset maintenance activities that require operational downtime (stops, cabin maintenance, etc.).

Your mission is to minimize the necessity for paused production by activating both technical and organizational solutions for the CRE activities navigating the production planning without disturbing it.

Center of gravity being the efficient organization of (annual) production stop(s) together with CRE projects, and the effective use of ‘cabin maintenance’, to allow for CRE activities (maintenance and projects) without unexpected impact on the business processes.

You collaborate with competence managers, maintenance providers and technical facility managers to investigate technical solutions for minimizing the maintenance impact on business processes.

Together with the Asset Management Specialists you provide the shutdown & turnaround strategy, providing guidelines for the operation.

You work closely with the Maintenance Project Portfolio Manager, maintenance providers and ASML business planners to align the activity planning.

This role demands strong stakeholder management, standardization for efficiency, smart use of data for necessary insights, challenging technical install-base and organizational way of working and leadership for operational excellence.

Peers in your team are the Technical Facility and Services Managers, Operations Improvement Manager and Maintenance Project Portfolio Manager.

You will report to the Manager Operations/Tactical Asset Management.

ASML CRE-NL’s main responsibilities are securing Operational Safety and Business Continuity for all of our factories and offices on and off site in the Netherlands.

Strategical

• Develop and define the shutdown & turnaround strategy, aligned with asset management strategy and the priority model.

• Create runbook and RASCI for facility stops and cabin maintenance

• Set op governance for shutdown & turnaround and cabin maintenance management

Tactical

• Securing necessary agreements with contractors for effectively executing the maintenance related unavoidable productions stops.

• Create and manage the budget for shutdown & turnaround

• Together with stakeholders and experts investigate technical and organizational improvements reducing (risk on) impact in the production planning related to the maintenance activities.

Operational

• Manage the necessary data / information needed for planning and executing the shutdown & turnaround and cabin maintenance.

• Work with suppliers to continuously optimize the maintenance planning during the year for the maintenance activities that cannot be done during normal operations, by using cabin maintenance, local shutdowns (due to projects) in close alignment with users

• Manage project leadership of the shutdown & turnaround during the year facilitating the necessary maintenance and project activities that cannot be done during normal business operations.

• Manage the risk mitigation related to shutdown & turnaround related activities
   

• Completed bachelor or master degree in engineering, asset management, business administration or equivalent

• At least 5-8 years of relevant experience in a similar complex (industrial) environment

• Strong leadership skills

• Analytical

• Experienced project/program/portfolio manager (PM-BOK, etc)

• Social skills; emphatic, listening, enthusing, creating room for innovation/creativity, coaching & collaborating

• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, dealing with senior and medior management levels, peers, teams, service providers, contractors and consultants

• Strongly results-orientated with a corresponding sense of responsibility; directs work and ensures accountability

• Excellent decision making skills in fast-changing and complex environments,  and capable of dealing with uncertainties

• Fluent in spoken and written business English

• A job with a promising future in ASML Netherlands

• Flexible structuring of daily work hours

• We reward performance with attractive compensation

• A varied and innovative work environment in a strong team

• We offer you specific opportunities for advanced training and development so that we can realize your professional plans for the future together

• Flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes that encourage independent work

• We promote team spirit through regular company events

• Extensive health and sports offers (e.g. Subsidy for sports activities, health days, company doctor, free vaccinations, etc.)

• A variety of attractive discounts

We are looking for people who can shape the future with us and inspire themselves and others for innovative technologies, new challenges and future-oriented solutions. Does this appeal to you? Then apply using our online application form, stating your salary requirements and earliest possible joining date. We look forward to receiving your application.

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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