Principal Aerospace Change Management Analyst

Timken; North Canton (OH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Timken invites experienced professionals to lead formal product and material changes, coordinating reviews and documentation across global functions. The role focuses on ensuring timely implementations, with strong emphasis on customer and regulatory compliance, and leading audits for change management.

You will collaborate with sales, engineering, and supply chain and chair the Product Change Board, driving cost-benefit analyses and change readiness assessments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Quality, Business, Supply Chain or related field with 7 years of experience.
• Master's Degree in Engineering, Quality, Business, Supply Chain or related field with 5 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Owns and manages formal product and material changes—launches, enhancements, and supply-chain updates.
• Coordinate review, execution, documentation, distribution, and verification across functions.
• Lead change control processes with stakeholders to ensure compliance with business, customer and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Change Management

Configuration Management

Systems Engineering

Cross-functional leadership

Audits & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Quality/Business/Supply Chain

Master's degree in Engineering/Quality/Business/Supply Chain

Tools

CRM systems

PDM/PLM/ERP

Teamcenter/SAP BI/PowerBI

Job description

What Timken makes possible begins with you.
Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next.

A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world— improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries, and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion.

Purpose:

This position exists to own and manage formal product and material changes—including launches, enhancements, supply-chain updates, and business initiatives—by coordinating review, execution, documentation, distribution, and verification across functions. Ensure timely implementation using standard project processes, maintain clear customer communication, and guarantee compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.

• Manages the validity, impact assessment, approval, implementation, and verification of changes in a controlled manner to enable beneficial changes, with reduced risk and minimal disruption to the business and our customers.
• Facilitates effective customer communication with the sales organization and ensures compliance to customer and regulatory requirements.
• Manages 1st, 2nd and 3rd party audits for management of change.
• Responsible for the change control process, to include overseeing each step and approval, collaborates with stakeholders ensuring compliance of all changes to the business, customer and supplier change management processes.
• Apply structured change process methodologies to support the adoption of changes required by a project or initiative and support and deliver change, communication, and engagement activities.
• Serve as the Chair of the Product Change Board
• Assess the validity and change impact – conduct impact analyses (where used), assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders; includes cost, resource and customer impacts.
• Assist the preparation of concise, easy to understand business cases for approval of major changes including cost versus benefits analysis
• Support and engage senior leaders including training and coaching change networks/agents in the change process and the most appropriate actions to take during the process.
• Measure effectiveness of change strategies and plan; adapt plans to ensure effectiveness that change approach meets expected results
• Strive to resolve conflicting requests and group multiple requests to achieve end item traceability and minimize implementation costs.
• Conduct post-implementation of change verification review before closing change to ensure the change meets the business case that was approved and develop action plans to address any changes that failed to meet approved business cases
• Work with the business on suggesting improvements to the change process to continually streamline and remove nonvalue added steps.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with others (internal and external to Timken) to achieve day-to-day objectives, engaging SMEs when needed, to drive work to closure on-time.
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Technical/Functional Skills:

• Excellent knowledge and understanding of Change Management, Configuration Management, and Systems Engineering methodologies, Timken corporate systems, standards, and engineering systems
• Experience with PDM, PLM and ERP Systems and processes
• Strong knowledge in Timken’s CRM, CAdB, Teamcenter, MOC, SAP BI, PowerBI and other supporting tools and interfacing systems, or ability to quickly learn
• Understanding of Bills of Materials, Part and Product definition
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong systemic critical thinking ability and problem-solving skills
• Leadership skills in directing and guiding indirect, global cross-functional individuals
• Demonstrate Timken business expertise (product offering, served markets, go-to-market strategy, finance, etc.)
• Customer & industry requirements understanding (i.e., IATF/ISO/AS…)

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Quality, Business, Supply Chain or related field with 7 years of experience
• Masters Degree in Engineering, Quality, Business, Supply Chain or related field with 5years of experience

This position may require access to United States export controlled technical data (“CTD”) and hardware under the Departments of US State (ITAR) and/or Commerce (EAR). Eligible candidates are; US Citizens, Green Card holders, Asylees or others eligible to receive US export license authorizations. Candidate must be authorized to work in the US.

All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Timken is a global technology leader in engineered bearings and industrial motion. Our expanding portfolio of next-generation solutions helps customers around the world improve efficiency, solve their toughest challenges, and push the boundaries of performance. We employ 19,000 people globally, operate from 45 countries, and posted $4.6 billion in sales in 2025.
We have been recognized as one of America's Most Responsible Companies 6x by Newsweek and one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® 15x by Ethisphere.

Why Choose Timken?

• Over a century of knowledge and innovation
  
• A culture of top performance
  
• Products that contribute to a sustainable world
  
• A conviction to improve communities around us
  
• Competitive salary and benefits
  

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