Spare Parts and Logistics Specialist

About Nearfield Instruments

Nearfield Instruments (NFI) is a fast-growing high-tech scale-up. We design, develop, integrate, market, and service advanced metrology systems for the semiconductor industry. Our machines enable the world’s leading chip makers to increase production yield and performance, resulting in smaller, faster, and more powerful consumer electronics.

Founded in 2016, Nearfield Instruments brings together approximately 380 of the most creative minds in science and technology. Together, we are developing a unique, high-throughput Scanning Probe Microscopy system that is truly one of a kind.

We are currently setting up and organizing our Customer Support Team. You will be part of this newly formed team, working closely with two other team members. In this role, you will collaborate with customers, Supply Chain, engineers, and specialists across the organization.

In this role, you will play a key part in managing and optimizing our spare parts operations. Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing spare parts availability and ensuring an efficient material flow
• Preparing export documentation and coordinating shipments of spare parts and tools to customer sites
• Building, implementing, and maintaining spare parts processes and lifecycle management
• Analyzing the quality performance of replaceable parts and conducting failure analyses using structured root-cause methodologies
• Driving continuous improvement in decision-making across the full lifecycle of service and replaceable parts to optimize availability (national and international)
• Managing Preventive Maintenance parts and MTBF-related procedures
• Collaborating closely with internal and external customers to understand their needs
• Working with suppliers to improve performance and reliability

This role is ideal if you:

• Enjoy working in a complex, evolving environment where processes still need to be designed and refined
• Have a strong interest in both technology and the semiconductor industry
• Want to understand customer challenges and translate them into effective spare-parts solutions
• Thrive in a scale-up environment where you can work on a wide range of topics and make a visible impact on the core business

Working in a scale-up offers exceptional learning opportunities, but it can also be dynamic and fast-paced. You feel comfortable with change, enjoy improving processes, and are willing to go the extra mile when needed. You also recognize yourself in the profile below.

Required experience and skills:

• Proven experience in customer support and spare parts management
• Demonstrated experience in logistics, including export documentation and shipping preparation
• Knowledge of stock level calculations and inventory management
• Strong ability to understand customer needs and translate them into effective solutions
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience
• Familiarity with Preventive Maintenance and MTBF concepts
• Experience with statistics and/or statistical engineering
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across functions and organizations
• Strong focus on quality and continuous improvement, with experience in structured problem-solving techniques

Recruitment, consultancy and/or other agency?

We appreciate the interest, but we source all our candidates directly. We understand that you as an intermediary want to present candidates to our interesting positions. This is not how we have structured our recruitment.

This means that all profiles offered to Nearfield Instruments will be treated as direct applications. Unless we have explicitly agreed otherwise.