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Donna J. Demerling is senior vice president quality and Lean Six Sigma.
Ms. Demerling started her career with the company in 1972 as an associate engineer in Canton. She held subsequent positions of mechanical engineer application engineer and application specialist - group leader in the industrial and aerospace groups. She also served as supervising engineer - product design and manager - detail design in the bearing operations. In 1989 Ms. Demerling was named chief product acceptance engineer at the company�s Lincolnton Bearing Plant in Lincolnton North Carolina where she also served as manager - production operations. In 1993 Ms. Demerling was named general manager of the company�s Bucyrus Operations in Bucyrus Ohio within the automotive group.
In 1997 she was named an officer of the company and president - aerospace and super precision where she developed a strategy that delivered ongoing growth in that segment. In 2003 she assumed the newly created role of senior vice president of supply chain and built a new organization that integrated the efforts of purchasing order fulfillment logistics and manufacturing strategy. In 2005 she was named to her current position where she is responsible for quality assurance throughout all of Timken�s business processes including product design manufacturing supply chain and administrative areas. She also continues to lead the Lean Six Sigma function.
Ms. Demerling received a bachelor�s degree in mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and completed the Management Program for Executives at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned a master's degree as a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University and in 2000 was named a member of the Sloan Alumni Advisory Board. | 