How to Delete a Timer Job in SharePoint using PowerShell?

But wait! why do we delete a Timer Job in SharePoint? Well, because:

• Your custom timer job may be in stuck state
• You may have orphaned Timer jobs (Timer job without "Server" from Timer job status page in Central Admin)
• Your custom timer job may have created more than one instances (duplicate timer job)

In my case, a custom timer job deployed in our SharePoint 2013 environment had a bug and left two instances of the same timer job. so we wanted to delete that.

Delete a Custom Timer Job in SharePoint
There is no Central Admin UI to delete timer jobs in SharePoint. So, lets seek help from PowerShell to delete a timer job in SharePoint.

How to Delete a Timer Job in SharePoint using PowerShell?

• Step 1: Obtain the GUID of your target timer job to delete
  

  Get-SPTimerJob | where { $_.name -like "YOUR-Timer-Job-Name" } | Format-Table  -autosize -Property LastRunTime,id,name,DisplayName,Status

• Step 2: Get the timer job and delete
  Once you obtained the GUID of your timer job to delete, Run this PowerShell cmdlets:
  

  $Timerjob = Get-SPTimerJob -id <Timer Job's GUID>
  
  $Timerjob.Delete()

This PowerShell script removes the given SharePoint timer job!

Lesson Learnt: Developers - Make sure your Feature deactivation module contains code to delete your custom timer job in SharePoint.