Service Manager

Geldrop, Netherlands

Company description

Fastmicro is a technology leader in advanced surface particle contamination inspection equipment, serving the microtechnology industries. Our fast particle detection and measurement solutions offer high throughput and cost-efficient cleanliness control at sub-micron level, reducing defectivity, failures and yield losses.


Our product range and analytics software cover a wide variety of applications and processes, including in-line defect inspection systems, transportable scanners, continuous particle fallout monitoring, and scanning modules for system integration. As an innovative metrology equipment and service supplier based in the Eindhoven Brainport area of the Netherlands, Fastmicro has a global presence with sales offices and local representation in Europe, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and the USA. We are committed to delivering exceptional value to our customers through our cutting-edge technology and unparalleled customer service.


Mission 

Our mission is to enable our customers to qualify their products on particle cleanliness and help them in finding the root causes of their particle contamination.


Due to growth of our organization we are currently looking for a Service Manager to help us with further professionalizing our service organization and processes. You’ll achieve this by  e.g. assuring our service processes are executed according to the highest quality standards.


Role description

As Service Manager you are ultimately responsible for assuring optimal customer satisfaction by leading and optimising our technical service department. Currently, our service organization consists of 5 specialists, all with broad organisational and deep knowledge of our products. Furthermore, you are responsible for managing our aftersales support, technical support and maintenance of our hightech systems. Moreover, you will be the first point of contact for our clients and internal teams.


Our service purpose comprises several aspects, namely:

  • Customer satisfaction: e.g. ticket incidents, lead time to solve, downtime etc.;
  • Aftersales: e.g. upgrade options;
  • Finance: e.g. expenses budget, warranty, stock budgets;
  • Service: what can be outsourced and what is scaleable;
  • Service readiness and robustness of our systems, moreover in time for our New Product Introductions.


For this position we are looking for a specialist who, preferably, has experience (or affinity) within the semiconductor industry.


Further responsibilities include:

  • Service innovation: Own and develop our service proposition. Secure productive service processes and service improvements, including service manuals, service portals, service centers, service logistics, service partner processes, collaboration of our service innovation roadmap in collaboration with our partners and key opinion leaders from other OEMs and universities.
  • Service readiness for New Product Introductions: Secure service manuals for equipment, software and services which we provide. Timely Design for Service feedback during our New Product Introductions, service offerings, spare parts, trained capacity and service tools; training technical sales manager on our service proposition.
  • Service management: Secure service plan for performance and response time to our customers, including budget, service capacity planning, service locations, stock  of spare parts and service tools, logstics, knowledge management and resources. Periodic review and improve on service ticket key parameters and status of service innovation and service readiness. Leading and training the team of service engineers and service partners.


Our ideal candidate has / is:

  • At least 5 years of experience, ideally with 2 years in best in class service management experience;
  • At least a Bachelor degree in Technical Business Administration or an engineering degree;
  • Willing to travel;
  • A customer focused and problem solving mindset;
  • Structured and pro-active;
  • A mindset to provide our customer a first time right experience;
  • Experience in a (high-tech or OEM) service driven environment is a plus;
  • Experience with leadership or hierarchical leading positions in technical teams;
  • Experience with customer and relationship management;
  • Fluent in English, both written and oral;
  • Dutch is considered a plus;
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What we offer you


Our current working environment is best characterised as practical and hands-on. We see challenges in solving (complex and technical) problems. Working at Fastmicro also means working in a professional scale-up environment where you will have a substantial influence during the development and production of our optical systems. We have an informal way of working with our colleagues and are appreciative of short communication lines.


On Thursdays we have a personal trainer at the office where our colleagues can join a voluntary weekly bootcamp. Besides this, we offer you:


  • Permanent contract;
  • Fulltime gross annual salary between €54.000 and €84.000 euro;
  • 25 holidays;
  • 8% holiday allowance;
  • Annual bonus;
  • Option to participate in our pension arrangements.



The process

Our application procedure consists of three interview rounds. The first interview will be with a colleague from our team and our recruiter. A second interview will be held with our CEO and COO. In a final round we will discuss the offer we would like to make you. We strive to finish the procedure within 4 weeks of applying.


We’d like to hear from you!

Has this vacancy sparked your interest? Then we’d like to hear from you. Please contact us for more information about this position or the selection process. To apply, please upload your CV and a cover letter explaining why this position fits your interests.


For further questions feel free to contact our recruiter Jordy Leenders at:

j.leenders@fast-micro.com

• +316 309 369 14