Sr. Quality Engineer

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.

This position exists to ensure global Timken sites are capable of reliably providing quality products to meet the requirements of Timken customers while complying with all industry and regulatory standards. It ensures proper implementation and interpretation of the Timken Quality Management System (TQMS), safe launch, safe exit, and continuous improvement as a basis for results. The role provides support to technical solutions owned by Quality and ensures data reliability, information availability, and delivery of key management reporting.

Lead and/or participate in the resolution of global Timken facility quality issues through identification of root cause and implementation and verification of effective corrective and preventive action. Coordinate distribution, manufacturing, and other technical experts across the Timken network to solve these quality issues. Provide communication interface between facilities and support areas to promote the understanding of quality problems, needs, and improvement opportunities.

Initiate, monitor, and communicate material containments. Review and interpret industry standards, customer quality requirements and their impact to Timken’s Quality Management System.

Review/approve Management of Change (MOC) workflows including customer notification; create, update, and deliver training material; maintain key information in shared environments; review and prioritize service requests; communicate regularly; identify opportunities to influence investment in technical solutions throughout a global enterprise.

Successfully complete Timken Quality Management System (TQMS) audits at designated sites, including coordinating, creating reports, issuing corrective actions and follow‑up for resolution. Monitor results and drive improvements in self‑assessments at Timken sites. Act as a consultant to manufacturing facilities for TQMS module implementation and adherence across the Timken facilities. Complete internal audits at Timken World Headquarters (WHQ) and other sites as needed, including coordinating, creating reports, issuing corrective actions and follow‑up for resolution.

Drive TQMS and audit process enhancements to meet business objectives. Lead or support 2nd and 3rd party audits as required.

Develop and maintain quality system reporting including: all weekly and monthly plant quality metrics, audit results, quality event reports, cost of quality, etc. Provide updates to management, industry and regional quality teams.

Create, deliver, and monitor safe launch plans and processes to Timken sites to ensure customer satisfaction as new products are launched through the supply chain. Lead group metric improvement projects utilizing standard quality engineering tools and principles. Participate in project and team activities. Provide leadership in planning, development, launch and support for industry or group related projects. Manage projects by coordinating and monitoring movement of activities throughout the organization to ensure that deliverables and due dates are maintained.

Use the data acquired from performing the above activities, as well as external and internal resources, to identify and implement opportunities for improving quality. Use problem solving and process improvement tools such as Pareto analysis and…