Introduction to the job
Our team is responsible for ensuring safety, quality, and on-time delivery of unpacking, packing, and cleaning activities supporting inbound and outbound material handling.
As a Rigging & Packaging Engineer, you will work closely with cross-sector teams (DnE, Quality, S&SP, Manufacturing, Logistics) to optimize packaging specifications, improve pack/unpack processes, prevent material damage and contamination, and drive logistics process improvements across warehouse and cleanroom operations.
This is a hands-on role requiring regular shopfloor engagement. You will bridge operations and management, ensuring improvement initiatives deliver measurable results in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and sustainability.
Responsibilities
Package engineering and specification optimization
- Review and continuously optimize packaging spec. for inbound, outbound and transportation requirements.
- Identify packaging risks and failure modes, including material damage, contamination, handling constraints, and transport risks to implement preventive solutions.
- Work with stakeholders to clarify packaging requirements, resolve packaging issues, and align on ownership and implementation plans.
Process engineering and continuous improvement
- Analyze material unpacking, packing processes and performance to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities.
- Lead cross-functional improvement projects to enhance safety, quality, productivity such as labor hour and cycle time.
- Apply structural problem solving methodologies to implement solutions.
- Serve as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) for assigned logistics processes and contribute to cross-sector improvement initiatives.
- Define project scope, benefits, implementation plans, metrics, and report progress and results to factory management.
Problem solving and standardization
- Provide hands-on support to shopfloor teams to identify and resolve the operational disturbances.
- Investigate material damage, abnormalities and process deviations, as well as coordinate the containment, resolution, and escalation.
- Perform RCA and implement corrective and preventive actions, including training, and change management.
- Monitor the effectiveness of actions to ensure that improvements are sustained.
- Develop, publish, maintain, and continuously improve standard work instructions.
- Translate lesson learned from disturbances into knowledge-transfer materials and provide training to shopfloor teams.
Stakeholder and project management
- Act as a key liaison between operations, management, and cross-functional stakeholders for improvement initiatives.
- Align stakeholders on improvement priorities, decisions, implementation plans, and responsibilities.
- Communicate project proposals, risks, progress, and results clearly to operational and management team.
Education and experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or related fields.
- 3+ years of experience in warehouse, logistics, packaging, material handling, manufacturing, or related operations.
- Hands-on experience working with shopfloor teams in factory, warehouse, or cleanroom environments.
- Experience driving process improvements with cross-functional teams and suppliers.
- Experience in 3PL management is a plus.
- Experience in logistics automation, packaging/material handling automation, AGV/AMR, or related automation projects is a plus.
- Experience leveraging AI tools for data analysis, process improvement, or knowledge management is a plus.
Inclusion and diversity
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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