Business Office Associate Jobs in Connecticut

Introduction to the job

ASML US, including its affiliates and subsidiaries, bring together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Arizona, San Jose and San Diego, California, Wilton, Connecticut, and Hillsboro, Oregon.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Business Planner to support Office & Lab Planning activities for our Wilton Development & Engineering organization.

This role plays a key part in enabling ASML's technology roadmap by ensuring our engineers, scientists, and project teams have the right workspace and laboratory environments at the right time to support innovation and growth.
You will work closely with Business Line leaders, Corporate Real Estate, EHS, Lab Owners, Project Managers, and other stakeholders to assess space demand, develop capacity scenarios, prioritize requests, and support strategic planning for office and laboratory environments. The role requires strong analytical capabilities, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to navigate complex business priorities while balancing short-term needs with long-term planning objectives. Success in this role requires embracing ASML's values of Challenge, Collaborate, and Care by constructively challenging assumptions, partnering across sectors to achieve the best outcomes, and ensuring solutions meet the needs of both the business and our people.

As a trusted business partner, you will provide data-driven recommendations, facilitate decision-making, and drive continuous improvements in workspace planning processes, governance, and reporting.

Role and responsibilities

Strategic Office & Lab Planning

• Develop and maintain office and laboratory space plans aligned with business growth, organizational priorities, and strategic objectives.
• Translate business requirements into practical workspace solutions while balancing capacity, utilization, cost, and operational constraints.
• Support long-range planning activities by evaluating future demand scenarios, capacity requirements, and portfolio impacts.

Demand & Capacity Management

• Partner with stakeholders to understand current and future workspace needs.
• Analyze headcount forecasts, project requirements, industrial space demand, and occupancy trends to support planning decisions.
• Identify capacity risks and opportunities and develop mitigation strategies.

Stakeholder Management & Business Partnership

• Build strong relationships with business leaders, functional partners, and facilities organizations.
• Facilitate alignment among stakeholders with differing priorities and requirements.
• Provide clear recommendations and influence decision-making through data-driven insights and business case development.

Data Analysis, Reporting & Visualization

• Develop and maintain planning dashboards, reports, and key performance indicators.
• Analyze space utilization, occupancy metrics, growth forecasts, and planning trends.
• Produce executive-level reporting to support planning decisions and portfolio governance.

Project & Portfolio Support

• Support office and laboratory moves, reconfigurations, expansion projects, and business transformation initiatives.
• Coordinate planning activities across multiple projects and stakeholders.
• Ensure planning deliverables are completed on time and meet business requirements.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive standardization and optimization of planning processes, tools, and governance frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to improve data quality, planning methodologies, and reporting effectiveness.
• Lead improvement initiatives that enhance planning efficiency and stakeholder experience.
• Automate workflows, and develop low-code business solutions to improve operational efficiency.

Knowledge Sharing & Mentorship

• Share expertise and best practices within the planning community.
• Mentor and guide junior planners and team members.
• Contribute to the development of planning capabilities, tools, and organizational knowledge.
  

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field. Masters preferred.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in business planning, facilities planning, workplace strategy, space planning, portfolio management, operations planning, or a related discipline.
• Experience managing complex stakeholder environments and balancing multiple competing priorities.
• Experience utilizing data analysis and reporting tools to support business decisions.
• Experience in a technical, engineering, manufacturing, or high-tech environment is preferred.
• Experience supporting office, laboratory, facilities, or real estate planning initiatives is highly desirable.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Advanced data analysis and reporting skills, Power BI and Spotfire is a plus.
• Business case development and scenario planning.
• Capacity planning and demand management.
• Project and portfolio management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
• Strong attention to detail and data accuracy, ensuring planning assumptions, stakeholder requirements, and reporting outputs are complete, consistent, and actionable.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications: Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, Forms
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate)
• Continuous improvement mindset with experience using structured problem-solving methodologies.

Behavioral & Leadership Skills

Drives Results

The ability to translate strategic and technical goals into clear priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes, delivering committed results on time and with the right quality by taking ownership, managing trade-offs, removing obstacles, and sustaining momentum across stakeholders and dependencies.

Demonstrates Self-Awareness

The ability to understand and manage one’s own strengths, limitations, emotions, and impact on others; to actively seek and use feedback; and to adapt behaviors and decisions to improve collaboration, leadership effectiveness, and results, especially in high-pressure, ambiguous, or complex environments.

Values Differences

The ability to intentionally seek, respect, and integrate diverse perspectives and working styles to strengthen collaboration and decision quality, ensuring all voices are heard and treated equitably, and enabling inclusive execution across cross-functional and multicultural stakeholders.

Builds Effective Teams

Helps align and enable the team dynamic by clarifying shared goals, roles, dependencies, and ways of working. Fosters trust and inclusion by promoting open dialogue, healthy conflict resolution, inclusion, and mutual accountability. Coaches colleagues to strengthen individual and team capability.

Drives Vision and Purpose

Translates broader direction into clear priorities and practical next steps for a team or technical scope. Builds alignment on goals and trade-offs, communicates context during change or ambiguity, and helps others maintain focus on shared outcomes.

Communicate Effectively

Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Other

• This position is located on-site. It requires onsite presence to ensure teamwork, collaboration, innovation and to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings.
• Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• May require travel (domestic and/or international) dependent on business needs up to ~10%.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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Additional Responsibilities (as needed in the cleanroom and/or labs):

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Must be willing to work in a clean room environment, wearing coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses and gloves. Working under ISO 9000/14000 standards.
• The environment in the cleanroom is moderate in temperature with moderate to high noise level.
• Safely working around lasers; on ladders; on platforms; around chemicals; near strong magnetic fields; around high voltage and currents.
• Perform other functions that may be assigned

Additional Responsibilities: There is potential for exposure to strong magnetic fields, high voltage and currents.

The current base annual salary range for this role is currently:

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Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.

The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US .

All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

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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