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.
What We Offer:
- Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental and vision coverage.
- Benefits start on first day of employment.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with generous company match.
- 10 paid holidays per year plus paid vacation.
- Paid parental leave at one year of service.
- Employee discounts on products and services.
- Education expense reimbursement, eligible to apply at first day of employment.
- Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
Position Summary:
This position is responsible for developing and maintaining a detailed Master Production Schedule (MPS) that balances customer demand, inventory targets, and available capacity in a low-volume, high-mix aerospace manufacturing environment. The scheduler uses SAP and other planning tools to drive weekly execution schedules, long-term capacity planning, and material alignment. Continuous improvement of the tools and methods used to plan is expected. The role requires strong cross-functional coordination with Operations, Engineering, Customer Service, and Supply Chain to ensure timely and cost-effective fulfillment of customer requirements.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive Master Production Schedule (MPS) that aligns customer demand with available capacity, material availability, and production constraints.
- Release and manage production orders, converts planned orders into executable schedules, and addresses exception messages to ensure smooth execution.
- Monitor schedule attainment, coordinates recovery plans for at-risk orders, and ensures alignment with government-rated (DPAS) and FAIR-driven requirements.
- Collaborates closely with Manufacturing and Engineering to validate capacity assumptions, adjust work center availability, and proactively resolve bottlenecks.
- Analyze shortages, re-plan as needed, and manage excess or obsolete materials based on assembly summaries and demand changes.
- Maintain accurate planning data in SAP, regularly updates master data such as lead times and lot sizes and utilizes Excel and other tools for demand and inventory analysis.
- Participates in the Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) and weekly supply review processes.
- Partner with Customer Service and Program Management to support delivery commitments and proactively communicate risks.
- Drive continuous improvement within the scheduling process, contributing to system enhancements, planning automation efforts, and strategic planning projects focused on improving delivery performance and inventory optimization.
Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
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).
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.
