At ASML, our technology enables the world’s leading chipmakers to produce faster, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips. As an NXE Production Engineering Quality Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring quality is embedded into every stage of manufacturing within our NXE factory in Wilton, Connecticut.
This leadership position combines people development, quality strategy, and operational excellence. You will build and develop a high-performing team of quality professionals while driving factory-wide quality improvements that support production, customer satisfaction, and future growth. The NXE Production Engineering Quality Manager helps create a culture where quality ownership, continuous improvement, and defect prevention are part of how the factory operates every day.
Role and ResponsibilitiesAs an NXE Production Engineering Quality Manager, you will lead the Quality Engineering organization supporting NXE factory operations. You will establish the vision, strategy, and priorities for the team while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to drive sustainable improvements across quality, manufacturing, and business performance.
You will:
Lead, coach, and develop Quality Engineers and technical project leaders.
Establish team priorities, development plans, succession strategies, and talent growth initiatives.
Define and communicate the quality vision, roadmap, and strategic objectives for the factory.
Drive defect prevention, process control, quality gate deployment, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Build organizational capability through training, coaching, and technical competency development.
Partner with manufacturing, engineering, supplier quality, and operations teams to resolve systemic quality challenges.
Sponsor cost reduction initiatives that improve quality performance, operational efficiency, and business results.
To be successful in this NXE Production Engineering Quality Manager role, you should have:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, quality engineering, or a related technical field.
Minimum 8 years of experience in quality engineering, production engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related manufacturing environment.
Minimum 3 years of experience leading engineers, technical teams, or project leaders.
Experience with Statistical Process Control (SPC), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Measurement System Analysis (MSA), and root cause analysis methodologies.
Experience driving quality improvements, operational excellence programs, and business process improvements.
Experience using analytical tools such as Python, Minitab, JMP, or similar data analysis software.
Proven success influencing cross-functional stakeholders and leading organizational change.
Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.
To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:
Lead and inspire high-performing technical teams.
Coach and develop engineers through complex technical and organizational challenges.
Build collaborative relationships across diverse stakeholder groups.
Communicate effectively with technical, operational, and business audiences.
Analyze data and make informed decisions using a structured approach.
Drive accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Influence strategic initiatives across multiple organizations.
Apply problem-solving methodologies to complex manufacturing challenges.
Prioritize competing business needs while maintaining long-term focus.
Foster an inclusive culture centered on quality, teamwork, and innovation.
Other Information
This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.
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 identify. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.
The current base annual salary range for this role is currently:
$0-0Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.
The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US.
All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.
This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.
Inclusion and diversityASML 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 in engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, quality engineering, or a related technical field
- Minimum 8 years of experience in quality engineering, production engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related manufacturing environment
- Minimum 3 years of experience leading engineers, technical teams, or project leaders
- Experience with Statistical Process Control (SPC), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Measurement System Analysis (MSA), and root cause analysis
- Experience driving quality improvements, operational excellence programs, and business process improvements
- Experience using Python, Minitab, JMP, or similar data analysis software
- Proven success influencing cross-functional stakeholders and leading organizational change
ASML Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
