{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"117615170cf75397c26ec00a","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/117615170cf75397c26ec00a","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/117615170cf75397c26ec00a","title":"Maintenance Planner - Remote US","description":"Company Overview\n\nImagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion.\n\nAt Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact. We activate science to deliver progress—developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future.\n\nThis is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what’s next. Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.\n\nWe don’t follow the status quo—we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it. Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger.\n\nWe invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development—equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel. With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide.\n\nYour Future Starts Here.\n\nIf you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong.\n\nAnything is possible when you imagine everything.\n\nRole Impact\n\nRemote / Multi-Site – North America (Supporting 3 Assigned Sites)\n\nAlternate Titles: Centralized Maintenance Planner | Network Maintenance Planner | Maintenance Work Management Planner\n\nThe Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing complete, accurate, and executable job plans for maintenance work across three assigned manufacturing sites. This role ensures that work orders contain the necessary scope, materials, labor estimates, permits, technical instructions, and supporting documentation required for safe and efficient execution.\n\nThe Planner transforms approved work requests into fully planned work packages and maintains the planned backlog to support effective scheduling and maintenance productivity across assigned sites. This position directly contributes to improved schedule readiness, reduced execution delays, better use of maintenance resources, and consistent work management discipline in a centralized multi-site support model.\n\nThe Maintenance Planner works closely with Gatekeepers, Schedulers, Supervisors, Operations, Procurement, Stores, Engineering, contractors, and Local Work Owners at each assigned site to ensure maintenance work is properly defined, resourced, and prepared before execution.\n\nWhat You Will Do\n\nWork Order Planning and Preparation\n\nReview approved work requests from assigned sites and convert them into detailed work orders.\nDefine job scope, required work steps, and technical instructions.\nIdentify required crafts, labor hours, and skill levels.\nDetermine material, parts, tools, equipment, and contractor support needs.\nDevelop job plans that support safe, efficient, and repeatable execution across assigned sites.\nBuild complete work packages that provide technicians with the information needed to execute maintenance work successfully.\n\nMaterial and Resource Coordination\n\nCreate material reservations and purchase requisitions as needed.\nCoordinate with Procurement and Stores to ensure timely material availability for work planned across assigned sites.\nVerify that required materials are available and staged prior to scheduling where site processes require staging.\nIdentify special tools, rental equipment, contractor support, or outside services required for execution.\nCommunicate material or resource constraints that could delay scheduling or execution.\nSupport improvement of equipment records, bills of material, and parts references in the CMMS.\n\nWork Readiness and Backlog Management\n\nEnsure work orders meet Ready-to-Schedule criteria before they are released for scheduling.\nMaintain a healthy planned backlog for each assigned site to support effective weekly scheduling.\nPrioritize planning activities based on risk, production impact, safety, regulatory requirements, PM due dates, and site priorities.\nReview backlog regularly to identify aging, incomplete, duplicate, or improperly scoped work orders.\nCoordinate with site stakeholders to clarify work scope and resolve planning deficiencies.\nSupport backlog cleanup and work order quality improvement across assigned sites.\n\nSafety, Permits, and Compliance\n\nIdentify required permits such as hot work, confined space, line break, excavation, lockout/tagout, and other applicable site requirements.\nEnsure job plans include safety precautions, hazard identification, and risk control expectations.\nSupport compliance with regulatory, environmental, quality, and company safety requirements.\nCollaborate with Engineering, Operations, EHS, and site leadership on work requiring technical review, Management of Change, or special approvals.\nEnsure work packages include applicable drawings, procedures, manuals, specifications, and supporting documentation.\nIncorporate lessons learned and execution feedback into future job plans.\n\nCommunication and Coordination Across Assigned Sites\n\nWork closely with Gatekeepers and Local Work Owners to clarify work requests and ensure planning information is complete.\nCollaborate with Schedulers to ensure work is fully planned before scheduling.\nCommunicate with Supervisors and site maintenance resources to validate labor estimates, craft requirements, and execution constraints.\nCoordinate with Operations to understand equipment conditions, access requirements, production constraints, and preferred execution windows.\nBalance planning workload across three assigned sites while maintaining consistent planning quality and timely support.\nParticipate in planning, backlog, readiness, and scheduling meetings as required for each assigned site.\n\nContinuous Improvement\n\nUpdate job plans based on feedback from technicians, Supervisors, Schedulers, and site stakeholders.\nDevelop standard job plans for recurring work across assigned sites.\nIdentify opportunities to improve planning accuracy, reduce delays, and improve work execution efficiency.\nSupport reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives by improving work quality, work history, and documentation.\nStandardize planning practices, templates, and work package expectations where practical across assigned sites.\nPromote disciplined maintenance work management by reinforcing clear scope definition, complete job planning, and work readiness expectations.\nWhat You Bring\n\nRequired Qualifications\n\nExperience in maintenance, operations, technical trades, maintenance planning, or maintenance supervision within an industrial or manufacturing environment.\nStrong technical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, or industrial maintenance systems.\nAbility to read and interpret drawings, manuals, equipment documentation, procedures, and technical specifications.\nProficiency with CMMS/EAM systems such as SAP PM, Maximo, Infor, or similar systems.\nStrong organizational and planning skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across assigned sites.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with site teams and cross-functional support groups.\nUnderstanding of maintenance work management processes, including work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and closeout.\nAbility to support multiple facilities in a centralized planning model.\nWillingness to travel periodically to assigned sites as required.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nTechnical certification, skilled trade qualification, associate degree, or bachelor’s degree in a related technical field.\nExperience with maintenance planning processes and planned backlog management.\nExperience supporting multiple sites or a centralized maintenance organization.\nExperience creating standard job plans and reusable maintenance work packages.\nKnowledge of safety procedures, work permits, lockout/tagout, and regulatory requirements.\nExperience coordinating materials, procurement, stores, contractor support, or rental equipment.\nUnderstanding of maintenance strategies such as preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, condition-based maintenance, and reliability-centered maintenance.\nFamiliarity with planning and scheduling performance indicators such as schedule compliance, planned work percentage, backlog health, and emergency work percentage.\nFamiliarity with process safety management and mechanical integrity requirements in a chemical or process manufacturing environment.\nLegal & Employment Notices\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, minority status, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any characteristic protected by law.\n\nIn order to be considered for this position candidates are required to submit an application for employment through our career site, be at least 18 years of age, willing to take a drug test , submit to a background investigation as part of the selection process, as well as additional periodic background checks as required by the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) or regulations adopted by the Department of Homeland Security or other regulatory agencies\n\nCandidates are required to have unrestricted authorization to work in the United States.\n\nIf currently an employee of the Company, you must have current satisfactory work performance and in most cases, have been in your current role 18 months.\n\nDisclaimer: We are not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms/employment agencies for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee about this position. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee of the Company via email, the Internet or in any other form and/or method without a valid written search firm agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company; no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by the Company as a result of the unsolicited referral or through other means.\n\nThis job description outlines the general nature and key responsibilities of the role but is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications. Job duties may change based on business needs. Nothing in this job description creates a contract of employment, express or implied.","company":"Hexion","rawCompany":"hexion","city":"Columbus","state":"OH","isRemote":true,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-12T11:06:33.365Z","occupations":[{"code":"43-5061.00","title":"Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks","slug":"production-planning-and-expediting-clerks"},{"code":"49-9071.00","title":"Maintenance and Repair Workers, General","slug":"maintenance-and-repair-workers-general"},{"code":"49-1011.00","title":"First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers","slug":"first-line-supervisors-of-mechanics-installers-and-repairers"}],"industries":[{"code":"811310","title":"Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance","slug":"commercial-and-industrial-machinery-and-equipment-except-automotive-and-electronic-repair-and-maintenance"},{"code":"561210","title":"Facilities Support Services","slug":"facilities-support-services"},{"code":"332312","title":"Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing","slug":"fabricated-structural-metal-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Maintenance Planner - Remote US","description":"Company Overview\n\nImagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion.\n\nAt Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact. We activate science to deliver progress—developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future.\n\nThis is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what’s next. Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.\n\nWe don’t follow the status quo—we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it. Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger.\n\nWe invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development—equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel. With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide.\n\nYour Future Starts Here.\n\nIf you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong.\n\nAnything is possible when you imagine everything.\n\nRole Impact\n\nRemote / Multi-Site – North America (Supporting 3 Assigned Sites)\n\nAlternate Titles: Centralized Maintenance Planner | Network Maintenance Planner | Maintenance Work Management Planner\n\nThe Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing complete, accurate, and executable job plans for maintenance work across three assigned manufacturing sites. This role ensures that work orders contain the necessary scope, materials, labor estimates, permits, technical instructions, and supporting documentation required for safe and efficient execution.\n\nThe Planner transforms approved work requests into fully planned work packages and maintains the planned backlog to support effective scheduling and maintenance productivity across assigned sites. This position directly contributes to improved schedule readiness, reduced execution delays, better use of maintenance resources, and consistent work management discipline in a centralized multi-site support model.\n\nThe Maintenance Planner works closely with Gatekeepers, Schedulers, Supervisors, Operations, Procurement, Stores, Engineering, contractors, and Local Work Owners at each assigned site to ensure maintenance work is properly defined, resourced, and prepared before execution.\n\nWhat You Will Do\n\nWork Order Planning and Preparation\n\nReview approved work requests from assigned sites and convert them into detailed work orders.\nDefine job scope, required work steps, and technical instructions.\nIdentify required crafts, labor hours, and skill levels.\nDetermine material, parts, tools, equipment, and contractor support needs.\nDevelop job plans that support safe, efficient, and repeatable execution across assigned sites.\nBuild complete work packages that provide technicians with the information needed to execute maintenance work successfully.\n\nMaterial and Resource Coordination\n\nCreate material reservations and purchase requisitions as needed.\nCoordinate with Procurement and Stores to ensure timely material availability for work planned across assigned sites.\nVerify that required materials are available and staged prior to scheduling where site processes require staging.\nIdentify special tools, rental equipment, contractor support, or outside services required for execution.\nCommunicate material or resource constraints that could delay scheduling or execution.\nSupport improvement of equipment records, bills of material, and parts references in the CMMS.\n\nWork Readiness and Backlog Management\n\nEnsure work orders meet Ready-to-Schedule criteria before they are released for scheduling.\nMaintain a healthy planned backlog for each assigned site to support effective weekly scheduling.\nPrioritize planning activities based on risk, production impact, safety, regulatory requirements, PM due dates, and site priorities.\nReview backlog regularly to identify aging, incomplete, duplicate, or improperly scoped work orders.\nCoordinate with site stakeholders to clarify work scope and resolve planning deficiencies.\nSupport backlog cleanup and work order quality improvement across assigned sites.\n\nSafety, Permits, and Compliance\n\nIdentify required permits such as hot work, confined space, line break, excavation, lockout/tagout, and other applicable site requirements.\nEnsure job plans include safety precautions, hazard identification, and risk control expectations.\nSupport compliance with regulatory, environmental, quality, and company safety requirements.\nCollaborate with Engineering, Operations, EHS, and site leadership on work requiring technical review, Management of Change, or special approvals.\nEnsure work packages include applicable drawings, procedures, manuals, specifications, and supporting documentation.\nIncorporate lessons learned and execution feedback into future job plans.\n\nCommunication and Coordination Across Assigned Sites\n\nWork closely with Gatekeepers and Local Work Owners to clarify work requests and ensure planning information is complete.\nCollaborate with Schedulers to ensure work is fully planned before scheduling.\nCommunicate with Supervisors and site maintenance resources to validate labor estimates, craft requirements, and execution constraints.\nCoordinate with Operations to understand equipment conditions, access requirements, production constraints, and preferred execution windows.\nBalance planning workload across three assigned sites while maintaining consistent planning quality and timely support.\nParticipate in planning, backlog, readiness, and scheduling meetings as required for each assigned site.\n\nContinuous Improvement\n\nUpdate job plans based on feedback from technicians, Supervisors, Schedulers, and site stakeholders.\nDevelop standard job plans for recurring work across assigned sites.\nIdentify opportunities to improve planning accuracy, reduce delays, and improve work execution efficiency.\nSupport reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives by improving work quality, work history, and documentation.\nStandardize planning practices, templates, and work package expectations where practical across assigned sites.\nPromote disciplined maintenance work management by reinforcing clear scope definition, complete job planning, and work readiness expectations.\nWhat You Bring\n\nRequired Qualifications\n\nExperience in maintenance, operations, technical trades, maintenance planning, or maintenance supervision within an industrial or manufacturing environment.\nStrong technical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, or industrial maintenance systems.\nAbility to read and interpret drawings, manuals, equipment documentation, procedures, and technical specifications.\nProficiency with CMMS/EAM systems such as SAP PM, Maximo, Infor, or similar systems.\nStrong organizational and planning skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across assigned sites.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with site teams and cross-functional support groups.\nUnderstanding of maintenance work management processes, including work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and closeout.\nAbility to support multiple facilities in a centralized planning model.\nWillingness to travel periodically to assigned sites as required.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nTechnical certification, skilled trade qualification, associate degree, or bachelor’s degree in a related technical field.\nExperience with maintenance planning processes and planned backlog management.\nExperience supporting multiple sites or a centralized maintenance organization.\nExperience creating standard job plans and reusable maintenance work packages.\nKnowledge of safety procedures, work permits, lockout/tagout, and regulatory requirements.\nExperience coordinating materials, procurement, stores, contractor support, or rental equipment.\nUnderstanding of maintenance strategies such as preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, condition-based maintenance, and reliability-centered maintenance.\nFamiliarity with planning and scheduling performance indicators such as schedule compliance, planned work percentage, backlog health, and emergency work percentage.\nFamiliarity with process safety management and mechanical integrity requirements in a chemical or process manufacturing environment.\nLegal & Employment Notices\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, minority status, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any characteristic protected by law.\n\nIn order to be considered for this position candidates are required to submit an application for employment through our career site, be at least 18 years of age, willing to take a drug test , submit to a background investigation as part of the selection process, as well as additional periodic background checks as required by the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) or regulations adopted by the Department of Homeland Security or other regulatory agencies\n\nCandidates are required to have unrestricted authorization to work in the United States.\n\nIf currently an employee of the Company, you must have current satisfactory work performance and in most cases, have been in your current role 18 months.\n\nDisclaimer: We are not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms/employment agencies for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee about this position. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee of the Company via email, the Internet or in any other form and/or method without a valid written search firm agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company; no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by the Company as a result of the unsolicited referral or through other means.\n\nThis job description outlines the general nature and key responsibilities of the role but is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications. Job duties may change based on business needs. 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