Supply Chain internship - lead time reduction support

Be part of progress: Join ASML’s Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Team

Help shape the future of high-tech supply chains by ensuring suppliers meet short-, mid-, and long-term demand for critical components. Order lead time reduction is key to improving operational efficiency and competitiveness. By shortening lead times, we enable faster delivery, reduce costs, and increase flexibility. This internship gives you the opportunity to contribute to a program that strengthens ASML’s global supply chain performance.

Our team ensures suppliers meet demand for critical components, and order lead time reduction is essential to improving operational efficiency and competitiveness. By shortening lead times, we enable faster delivery, reduce costs, and increase flexibility. This internship offers you the chance to contribute to a program that strengthens ASML’s global supply chain performance.

Your assignment

You will support the supplier order lead time reduction program within the Metrology, Light Source, and Positioning (MLP) cluster. Your work will focus on process improvements, standardization, and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. Your main responsibilities will be:

• Contribute to initiatives that reduce supplier order lead times.
• Assist in standardizing lead time reduction practices across suppliers.
• Support and help facilitate Value Stream Mapping workshops at supplier sites.
• Document workshop outcomes and track progress toward lead time targets.
• Develop and maintain standardized reporting templates for supplier progress.
• Prepare internal reports for stakeholders on lead time reduction status.
• Analyze bottlenecks and propose actionable solutions for improvement.

This is a bachelor or master (non-thesis) internship for a minimum of 6 months, at least 4 days per week (2-3 days on-site). The start date of this internship is February 2026.

Your profile

To be suitable for the internship, you:

• Have a background in industrial engineering, supply chain management, or a related field.
• Have strong analytical skills and enjoy working with data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Are collaborative and comfortable engaging with multiple stakeholders.
• Show a proactive attitude and take ownership of tasks.
• Communicate clearly in English, both verbally and in writing.

Other requirements you need to meet:

• You are enrolled at an educational institute for the entire duration of the internship.
• Attach your cover letter with a clear motivation why you are interested in this internship assignment in particular.
• You need to be located in the Netherlands to perform your internship. If you are currently living or studying outside of the Netherlands, your CV/motivation letter should include your willingness to relocate.
• If you are a non-EU citizen studying in the Netherlands, your university must be willing to sign the documents relevant for doing an internship (i.e., Nuffic agreement).

About ASML

ASML is a leading supplier of lithography equipment, used by the world’s top chipmakers to print microchips that are increasingly powerful, fast, and energy efficient. Working at ASML is inspiring, no matter what field you're in. We push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it. We’re probably a part of the electronic device you’re using right now. We’re a global team of more than 32,000 people from 122 different nationalities and counting. Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia, and the US.