Project Manager Special Customer Projects

Your Role

• Lead and oversee customer projects in the field of metrology and inspection in the semiconductor manufacturing environment
• Serve as the primary liaison between customers and the home organization, ensuring clear communication and understanding of customer needs and expectations
• Understand customers’ business objectives and align our solutions to meet those needs. Deploy the solutions in field and be accountable for satisfying customer requests
• Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation. Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget
• Handle customer escalations, ensuring issues are resolved to the customer's satisfaction
• Implement strategies to prevent future escalations by identifying root causes and recommending improvements
• Prepare regular reports on project status, customer feedback, and satisfaction metrics for senior management

Your Profile

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering or semiconductor manufacturing or material science or related fields
• Strong Experience working with customer in semiconductor manufacturing space
• At least five years of proven experience as a Project Manager, preferably in a customer-facing role
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies and tools
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage complex customer relationships
• Problem-solving skills and the ability to handle challenging situations with diplomacy and tact
• Office presence at least 2-3 days per week
• Willingness to travel internationally for up to 40% of working time. The degree of travel might vary depending on the business needs
• Fluent in English. Knowing Korean, Japanese or Mandarin is a very strong advantage

Your skills are invaluable to us! At ZEISS, we offer a wide range of professional development opportunities, including qualification programs, our internal online learning platform CurioZ, external training courses, and attractive career paths. With our annually defined development goals, we support our employees in achieving their career objectives. Your work is valuable! As part of our team, you benefit from a variety of attractive employee benefits, such as a company bicycle subsidy and a competitive pension plan. You will also, of course, benefit from collectively agreed special payments, as well as an annual profit-sharing bonus (based on the fiscal year). People are at the heart of everything we do! ZEISS is a foundation-owned company. Therefore, we are particularly committed to values ​​such as social responsibility, family-friendliness, and the social security of our employees. Because they are the driving force and the engine of our company – and are at the heart of everything we do. In addition, we offer flat hierarchies plus freedom and responsibility.

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Georgios Tanoglou