The Manufacturing New Product Introduction (NPI) team plays a critical role in ensuring new products, modules, and design changes are successfully transferred from Development & Engineering (D&E) into volume manufacturing.
As an NPI Project Lead, you will drive and coordinate cross-functional NPI projects throughout the product industrialization lifecycle, ensuring manufacturing readiness, successful qualification, and smooth production ramp-up. You will serve as a key interface between D&E, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and global stakeholders, helping to align project objectives, manage project risks, and deliver successful NPI outcomes.
Working within ASML's Linkou Factory, you will collaborate closely with local and global teams across multiple engineering disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, software, mechatronics, system engineering, and manufacturing. This role offers broad exposure to product development, industrialization, manufacturing operations, and international stakeholder management.
The ideal candidate combines strong project management capabilities with a solid technical background and hands-on experience in manufacturing or NPI environments. This role requires the ability to effectively bridge engineering and manufacturing teams, understand technical challenges, drive stakeholder alignment, and lead successful product industrialization and ramp-up activities.
Due to close collaboration with global teams, particularly in the Netherlands, this role typically involves several evening meetings per week to support project execution, stakeholder alignment, and NPI activities. Flexible remote participation is supported for these meetings when appropriate.
The final position level and job title will be determined based on the candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, and overall interview performance.
This position is a Taiwan local hire and is based onsite at the Linkou Factory. The role follows a Monday-to-Friday onsite work model, enabling close collaboration with factory teams.
Lead NPI projects from planning through qualification, ramp-up, and manufacturing release.
Drive cross-functional project execution and coordinate activities across D&E, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Logistics, and other stakeholders.
Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, risk assessments, and mitigation plans.
Ensure manufacturing readiness for new products, modules, engineering changes, and industrialization activities.
Monitor project progress, identify risks and issues, and drive timely resolutions to ensure project objectives are achieved.
Facilitate project reviews, project status meetings, and stakeholder alignment discussions.
Collaborate closely with global teams, including stakeholders in the Netherlands, to support successful NPI execution and product transfers.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance NPI processes, project execution efficiency, and manufacturing performance.
Communicate project status, risks, key decisions, and recommendations to management and project stakeholders.
Capture lessons learned and implement best practices to improve future NPI and industrialization projects.
Bachelor’s degree or above in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, or other relevant engineering disciplines.
Approximately 5–10 years of experience in Project Management, Program Management, NPI, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrialization, Product Engineering, or related functions.
Proven experience leading cross-functional projects with end-to-end ownership and accountability.
Experience working within manufacturing, factory, production, semiconductor, semiconductor equipment, or other high-tech industrial environments.
Strong project planning, stakeholder management, risk management, and execution capabilities.
Strong technical aptitude with the ability to understand engineering concepts, manufacturing processes, product architecture, and technical project risks.
Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders in a complex and matrixed organization.
Strong analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Ability to drive project outcomes independently with minimal supervision.
Fluent English communication and presentation skills.
Willingness to collaborate with global stakeholders across different time zones.
Experience leading NPI, industrialization, manufacturing transfer, engineering change implementation, qualification, ramp-up, or production introduction projects.
Experience in semiconductor, semiconductor equipment, electronics manufacturing, automation, mechatronics, or other high-tech industries.
Experience working closely with Development & Engineering teams during product introduction and industrialization phases.
Hands-on experience in semiconductor equipment, manufacturing engineering, product engineering, system integration, industrialization, or other technical engineering functions.
Experience serving as a technical lead, project lead, or key engineering interface between Development & Engineering and Manufacturing.
Familiarity with project management methodologies, governance frameworks, and change management practices.
Experience driving process improvement, manufacturing optimization, operational excellence, or productivity enhancement initiatives.
Experience collaborating with global engineering and manufacturing teams.
Knowledge of manufacturing readiness reviews, product qualification processes, and production ramp-up management.
Experience working within a semiconductor equipment manufacturing environment is highly preferred.
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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or above in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Manufacturing, Industrial, Systems Engineering, or related
- Approximately 5-10 years' experience in Project Management, Program Management, NPI, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrialization, Product Engineering, or related
- Proven experience leading cross-functional projects with end-to-end ownership
- Experience working within manufacturing, factory, production, semiconductor, or semiconductor equipment environments
- Strong project planning, stakeholder management, risk management, and execution capabilities
- Strong technical aptitude to understand engineering concepts, manufacturing processes, product architecture, and technical project risks
- Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders in a complex matrixed organization
- Strong analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Ability to drive project outcomes independently with minimal supervision
- Fluent English communication and presentation skills
- Willingness to collaborate with global stakeholders across different time zones (evening meetings required)
- Taiwan local hire; onsite at Linkou Factory, Monday-to-Friday onsite work model
- Experience leading NPI, industrialization, manufacturing transfer, engineering change implementation, qualification, ramp-up, or production introduction projects
- Experience in semiconductor equipment, electronics manufacturing, automation, mechatronics, or other high-tech industries
- Experience working closely with Development & Engineering teams during product introduction and industrialization phases
- Hands-on experience in semiconductor equipment, manufacturing engineering, product engineering, system integration, or industrialization
- Experience serving as a technical lead, project lead, or key engineering interface between Development & Engineering and Manufacturing
- Familiarity with project management methodologies, governance frameworks, and change management practices
- Experience driving process improvement, manufacturing optimization, operational excellence, or productivity initiatives
- Experience collaborating with global engineering and manufacturing teams
- Knowledge of manufacturing readiness reviews, product qualification processes, and production ramp-up management
- Experience working within a semiconductor equipment manufacturing environment
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is broad and employer‑funded to a significant degree, with multiple plan options plus mental health and wellness resources. Complementary offerings like onsite/virtual care, HSA contributions, and a gym subsidy strengthen the overall medical package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family‑forming benefits include paid parental leave, adoption assistance, IVF coverage, and practical supports like lactation rooms and milk‑shipment for travel. These provisions indicate substantial caregiving support across life stages.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off can reach a high ceiling when combining vacation and company holidays, with accruals increasing by tenure. Flexible workplace policies and a vacation sell‑back option add usability to the time‑off program.
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What We Do
ASML is a high-tech company, headquartered in the Netherlands. We manufacture the complex lithography machines that chipmakers use to produce integrated circuits, or computer chips. Over 30 years, we have grown from a small startup into a multinational company with over 60 locations across Europe, Asia and the US. Behind ASML’s innovations are engineers who think ahead. The people who work at our company include some of the most creative minds in physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, chemistry, mechatronics, optics, mechanical engineering, computer science and software engineering. Because ASML spends more than €2 billion per year on R&D, our teams have the freedom, support and resources to experiment, test and push the boundaries of technology. They work in close-knit, multidisciplinary teams, listening to and learning from each other.
