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Maintenance Planner - Remote US

United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Aug 2026

About the role

Company Overview

Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion.

At 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.

This 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.

We don’t follow the status quo—we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it. Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger.

We 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.

Your Future Starts Here.

If you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong.

Anything is possible when you imagine everything.

Role Impact

Remote / Multi-Site – North America (Supporting 3 Assigned Sites)

Alternate Titles: Centralized Maintenance Planner | Network Maintenance Planner | Maintenance Work Management Planner

The 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.

The 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.

The 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.

What You Will Do

Work Order Planning and Preparation

Review approved work requests from assigned sites and convert them into detailed work orders.
Define job scope, required work steps, and technical instructions.
Identify required crafts, labor hours, and skill levels.
Determine material, parts, tools, equipment, and contractor support needs.
Develop job plans that support safe, efficient, and repeatable execution across assigned sites.
Build complete work packages that provide technicians with the information needed to execute maintenance work successfully.

Material and Resource Coordination

Create material reservations and purchase requisitions as needed.
Coordinate with Procurement and Stores to ensure timely material availability for work planned across assigned sites.
Verify that required materials are available and staged prior to scheduling where site processes require staging.
Identify special tools, rental equipment, contractor support, or outside services required for execution.
Communicate material or resource constraints that could delay scheduling or execution.
Support improvement of equipment records, bills of material, and parts references in the CMMS.

Work Readiness and Backlog Management

Ensure work orders meet Ready-to-Schedule criteria before they are released for scheduling.
Maintain a healthy planned backlog for each assigned site to support effective weekly scheduling.
Prioritize planning activities based on risk, production impact, safety, regulatory requirements, PM due dates, and site priorities.
Review backlog regularly to identify aging, incomplete, dupl