Team Lead Dangerous Goods Services

Join the Chemical Support Team at ASML

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Introduction to the job

The Chemical Support team, part of the Service Lab Technical Support department, plays a key role in handling Dangerous Goods and offering Value Added Services. The services are provided to a wide range of different customers and contractors, including global colleagues in Taiwan and Korea, as well as internal stakeholders such as SL, HNA, LO, EF, TF, Demo, D&E, BIC, Delft, and various buildings on the Veldhoven campus and future sites.

Role and Responsibilities

The Chemical Support team is an experienced group of 8 FTE working in a Support Roster. As a People Lead, you will drive the team to further streamline and expand this business-critical, one-stop shop for Dangerous Goods. Your responsibilities include:

• Receiving & Shipping: Collaborate with Technical Buyers, Chemical Forecasting, and Product Planning to receive chemicals (12NC) from Farmusol, store them, and ship them to various locations in the Netherlands and beyond.
• Storage & Deliveries: Work with CRE (owner) and Air Liquide (maintenance partner) to manage Chemical Vaults, including ATEX conditions, on the Veldhoven campus. Distribute chemicals automatically by a Chemical Delivery System or deliver to requestors, including conditioned sublocations in different Gray rooms. Manage Nitrogen storage in collaboration with Linde.
• Waste & Scrap Management: Maintain different waste streams with parties like Remondis, Osram, Ushio, and Covra. This includes disposal of radioactive (Thorium) contaminated materials, high-pressure (Mercury) lamps, and other exotic requests.

The team’s scope is rapidly growing, providing a wide range of Value Added Services to all of ASML, such as:

• Sprinter service: Crucial for inbound & outbound express logistics, e.g., for valuable IMEC wafers & reticles used in the HNA lab.
• Solvent refilling: Filling chemical bottles and carriers for Cleanroom Services (supporting the Factory milk run), D&E, and Desk 9.
• Dry shippers: Filling N2 vessels, supporting Cleanroom Logistics.
• Customer & supplier materials: Managing logistics for customer and supplier materials like HNA chemicals, Trumpf emergency kits, and TEL track filters within ASML premises.
• Consumables + Chemical PPE: Managing and delivering critical stock for various requestors, supplying gas masks, filters, and more.

All warehouse activities are managed using different software applications, including:

• CST (Chemical Support Tool), SLeiPnir
• SAP (EWM and ECC, migrating to S4/HANA), with work instructions rolled out together with the MF Operational Excellence team
• EasyBuy
• 3EProtect, managing chemical compliance (within D&E)

All team members handle both operational activities and engineering tasks, such as Control Tower, First Line Support, Escalation Management, and Project Management. Work processes and the environment are audited periodically by Special Cargo Services (transport) and BSI (ISO), together with SL Safety & Quality.

As Team Lead, you will operate in day shift and report directly to the Line Manager of the Service Lab - Technical Support organization.

Education and Experience

• BSc or MSc degree
• Preferably 10 to 15 years ASML Logistics Operations experience
• Experience as a people manager
• Experience with SAP/WMS administrative systems
• Experience with project management
• Knowledge of safe handling/disposal (waste stream management) of Dangerous Goods

Personal Skills

• Analytical and structural
• Service oriented
• Firm (Senior) personality, able to communicate on different levels
• Good verbal and written professional communication in both Dutch and English
• Team player
• People manager
• Flexible
• Persistent, but connect easily
• Customer focus

About Us

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. That’s because we push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it. In fact, 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.