{"id":86931,"title":"Process Engineer EUV (m/f/x) – Cleaning and Contamination-Control Processes for Optical Components","company":"ZEISS","city":"Oberkochen","region":"Baden-Württemberg","location":"Oberkochen","work_model":"unknown","employment_type":"full_time","employment":["full_time"],"roles":["software"],"visa":"not_mentioned","relocation":"not_mentioned","posted_at":"2026-10-13T00:52:53.714789+00:00","tools":[],"seniority":"unknown","years_experience_min":null,"german_requirement":"required","german_level":"unspecified","english_requirement":"required","english_level":"unspecified","team_language":"unknown","confidence":0.9,"method":"rules","language_badge":"German required","language_evidence":"Very good spoken and written skills in German and in English","requirements_snippet":"A successfully completed university degree in Process Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a comparable technical or scientific field Solid hands-on experience in an industrial production, development, or process …","url":"https://zeissgroup.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Oberkochen/Process-Engineer-EUV--m-f-x----Cleaning-and-Contamination-Control-Processes-for-Optical-Components_JR_1051515","source":"workday","agency":null,"description_text":"ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology​\n​\nEnabler for smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips​\n​\nWorking for tomorrow today. ​\nAround 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are produced using ZEISS technologies. As the centerpiece of every electronically controlled system, they have become an integral part of our everyday lives – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and process control solutions, ZEISS enables the production of ever smaller, increasingly powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips, and thus plays a pivotal role in the age of micro- and nanoelectronics.\n\nZEISS SMT is seeking a Process Engineer (m/f/x) for Cleaning and Contamination-Control Processes for Optical Components at the Oberkochen site, in the Optics EUV domain.\nDoes the following description reflect your experience? We look forward to your application.\n\nYour Role\n• Interface between manufacturing and development, representing the Engineering function at the production level\n• Responsible for manufacturing key figures such as OEE, cycle times, yield, and cost of manufacture\n• Analyze, stabilize, and drive continuous improvement (CI) of manufacturing and cleaning processes with regard to quality, process safety, overall equipment effectiveness, and cost\n• Qualify, evaluate, and transfer machines and processes to production, including assessment of the necessary milestones\n• Systematically address machine and process disturbances and derive sustainable countermeasures to prevent recurrence\n• Introduce, evaluate, and approve new operating and auxiliary materials in close coordination with Development, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance\n• Define and perform visual and quantitative surface analyses for contamination assessment and root-cause analysis\n• Support the procurement of new systems and their ramp-up phase, and actively collaborate with internal partners to sustainably implement process improvements and industrialization measures\n\nYour Profile\n• A successfully completed university degree in Process Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a comparable technical or scientific field\n• Solid hands-on experience in an industrial production, development, or process environment, ideally with relevance to cleaning processes, surface engineering, or technical cleanliness\n• Relevant experience in the design, evaluation, stabilization, and optimization of chemical, wet-chemical, or physical processes\n• Knowledge of working in clean environments (e.g., cleanroom) is advantageous\n• Experience in the production, development, or industrialization of demanding high-tech products; familiarity with optics, semiconductor, or precision manufacturing is desirable\n• Proficient in methods of process analysis and optimization, statistical experimental design and fault analysis, e.g., Six Sigma, CI, Minitab, 8D, or FMEA\n• Strong analytical skills, structured work approach, high initiative, and very good communication and teamwork\n• Very good spoken and written skills in German and in English\n\nOur Added Value\n\nWe provide stability and security!\nThe long-standing success, strong market position of ZEISS, and the continuously growing demand for IT components offer security for every ZEISS employee and a reliable long-term perspective you can count on.\nYour work-life balance matters to us!\nBenefit from flexible working time models (including flexible shift systems), the option to work remotely, and a range of childcare support services.\nYour skills are highly valued!\nAt ZEISS, we offer a wide range of opportunities for professional development, including qualification programs, our internal online learning platform CurioZ, external training opportunities, and attractive career paths. With individually defined annual development goals, we support our employees in achieving their career ambitions.\nYour work is valuable!\nAs part of our team, you will benefit from a variety of attractive employee benefits, such as corporate benefits programs, subsidies for the Germany ticket and company bicycles, as well as an award-winning pension scheme. In addition, you will of course receive collectively agreed special payments, including holiday pay, Christmas bonuses, transformation payments, and additional collective bonuses (T-Zug), as well as an annual performance-based bonus tied to the fiscal year.\nWe invest in your health & well-being!\nOur health management program includes online fitness classes, webinars, partnerships with gyms, ZEISS sports groups and running clubs, occupational health physicians, and a unique health partnership with Barmer, offering health courses and a personal contact. In our company restaurants, you will enjoy healthy and diverse meals, including daily vegetarian and vegan options as well as regional organic products.\nPeople are at the center of everything we do!\nZEISS is a foundation-owned company. This is why we are deeply committed to values such as social responsibility, family-friendliness, and the social security of our employees. They are the driving force behind our innovation and the engine of our company—and they are our top priority. In addition, we offer flat hierarchies along with autonomy and responsibility.\n\nLearn more about us as a company & team | ZEISS SMT (About us as company & team | ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology) and your career opportunities at ZEISS SMT (Your Career and Job offerings at ZEISS SMT)!\n\nYour ZEISS Recruiting Team:\nMarlies Weisser","responsibilities_text":"• Interface between manufacturing and development, representing the Engineering function at the production level\n• Responsible for manufacturing key figures such as OEE, cycle times, yield, and cost of manufacture\n• Analyze, stabilize, and drive continuous improvement (CI) of manufacturing and cleaning processes with regard to quality, process safety, overall equipment effectiveness, and cost\n• Qualify, evaluate, and transfer machines and processes to production, including assessment of the necessary milestones\n• Systematically address machine and process disturbances and derive sustainable countermeasures to prevent recurrence\n• Introduce, evaluate, and approve new operating and auxiliary materials in close coordination with Development, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance\n• Define and perform visual and quantitative surface analyses for contamination assessment and root-cause analysis\n• Support the procurement of new systems and their ramp-up phase, and actively collaborate with internal partners to sustainably implement process improvements and industrialization measures","requirements_text":"• A successfully completed university degree in Process Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a comparable technical or scientific field\n• Solid hands-on experience in an industrial production, development, or process environment, ideally with relevance to cleaning processes, surface engineering, or technical cleanliness\n• Relevant experience in the design, evaluation, stabilization, and optimization of chemical, wet-chemical, or physical processes\n• Knowledge of working in clean environments (e.g., cleanroom) is advantageous\n• Experience in the production, development, or industrialization of demanding high-tech products; familiarity with optics, semiconductor, or precision manufacturing is desirable\n• Proficient in methods of process analysis and optimization, statistical experimental design and fault analysis, e.g., Six Sigma, CI, Minitab, 8D, or FMEA\n• Strong analytical skills, structured work approach, high initiative, and very good communication and teamwork\n• Very good spoken and written skills in German and in English\nOur Added Value\nWe provide stability and security!\nThe long-standing success, strong market position of ZEISS, and the continuously growing demand for IT components offer security for every ZEISS employee and a reliable long-term perspective you can count on.\nYour work-life balance matters to us!\nBenefit from flexible working time models (including flexible shift systems), the option to work remotely, and a range of childcare support services.\nYour skills are highly valued!\nAt ZEISS, we offer a wide range of opportunities for professional development, including qualification programs, our internal online learning platform CurioZ, external training opportunities, and attractive career paths. With individually defined annual development goals, we support our employees in achieving their career ambitions.\nYour work is valuable!\nAs part of our team, you will benefit from a variety of attractive employee benefits, such as corporate benefits programs, subsidies for the Germany ticket and company bicycles, as well as an award-winning pension scheme. In addition, you will of course receive collectively agreed special payments, including holiday pay, Christmas bonuses, transformation payments, and additional collective bonuses (T-Zug), as well as an annual performance-based bonus tied to the fiscal year.\nWe invest in your health & well-being!\nOur health management program includes online fitness classes, webinars, partnerships with gyms, ZEISS sports groups and running clubs, occupational health physicians, and a unique health partnership with Barmer, offering health courses and a personal contact. 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In addition, we offer flat hierarchies along with autonomy and responsibility.\nLearn more about us as a company & team | ZEISS SMT (About us as company & team | ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology) and your career opportunities at ZEISS SMT (Your Career and Job offerings at ZEISS SMT)!\nYour ZEISS Recruiting Team:\nMarlies Weisser","status":"open","duplicate_of":null,"first_seen":"2026-11-04T00:53:17.560073+00:00","responsibilities_summary":null,"requirements_summary":null,"all_tools":[],"posting_language":"en","evidence":[{"language":"german","requirement":"required","quote":"Very good spoken and written skills in German and in English","source":"rules"},{"language":"english","requirement":"required","quote":"Very good spoken and written skills in German and in English","source":"rules"}],"years_experience_max":null,"mobility_evidence":[],"model_version":"rules-8","english_badge":"English required","company_id":2540}