Principal Aerospace Change Management Analyst

About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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, including overseeing each step and approval, and 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 the 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 change verification review before closing change to ensure the change meets the approved business case 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 non-value-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%.

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.
• Project Management experience.
• 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…).

Requirements

• 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.

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.