Maintenance Manager

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. 

Position Overview

To prepare, coordinate and guide maintenance whether preventative, corrective, or predictive in all departments within the plant. Lead and schedule shutdown or outage activities to ensure that the plant runs optimally with regard to obtaining business results.

To minimize financial risks and costs by managing Maintenance activities, contractors, vendors, inventory, and service contracts (i.e., delivered quantities and quality in relation to agreed upon contracts, accounting keys and invoices) in line with corporate guidelines, in order to optimize company’s business performance on the site. Drives long term positive relationships within a culture of intrinsic safety and continuous improvement. Function as part of a safety sensitive site, report fit for duty and positively contribute to an environmentally sound manufacturing team.  Comply with all policies, procedures, and rules.  Participate in safety committees.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for preparation and coordination of (short term and long term) maintenance personnel and/or contractor activities in compliance with EHS regulations.
• Coordinates day-to-day operational issues and discrepancies on site.
• Reviewing and validating invoices, timesheets and other data tracked in the department.
• Responsible for the assessment of requisitions.
• Responsible for checking the status of activities in SAP.
• Tracking and monitoring work order status and completion.
• Responsible for quality programs and quality assessment of contractors.
• Responsible for proposals regarding maintenance contracts and service level agreements.
• Directing and developing people, conducting performance reviews, and providing feedback on a regular basis.
• Conduct daily field visits, attend relevant meetings, bring updates.
• Lead daily maintenance update meetings.
• Monitor, track and improve departmental and plant KPI’s.
• Demonstrated competence with ABSA requirements.
• Active promotion of any Covid19 protocols in effect.
• Entry of Safety KPI’s, issues, concerns, near misses or incidents in Hexion software.
• Understand the ISO 9001 system and ensure hourly reports maintain conformance to all the system requirements.
• Ensure all process areas and equipment is always maintained in clean and safe conditions to provide the team with an organized workplace and proper tools. Lead/Own 5S initiatives for the area and support 5S initiatives for the site.
• Adhere to company SOX requirements.
• Work with Production Scheduler and ensure any downtime is coordinated efficiently.
• Performance and Results Orientation - Maintains focus on key performance drivers, continuously improves processes, and consistently delivers results.
• Meet Commercial/Customer service requirements by projecting the workload of equipment and resources and adjust as required to individual job tasks.  Addresses customer complaints.

Competencies

Strategic Focus & Direction:

• Builds relationships with others, departments, contractors, and vendors.
• Understands the plants and regional strategic plan.
• Understands relationship between business plans and team/unit and role.
• Enhances relationships with counterparts throughout the organization.
• Identifies issues in attaining planned goals or work and proposes action plan and solutions.
• Seeks challenges and works to resolve difficult situations.

EHS

• Actively promotes the importance of safety throughout the site.
• Track and lead completion of site compliance safety or job related training.
• Leads by example by practicing safe work habits
• Works to build safety awareness among peers
• Personally adhere to and ensure others comply with Company policies, safety manual, fitness for duty, housekeeping, etc.
• Actively works to ensure SOPs, work orders and work permits are followed.
• Actively participate in Emergency Response Drills and ensure good understanding of emergency response procedures.

Trust & Teamwork:

• Displays correct, professional business etiquette in all interactions.
• Understands that there are different approaches when making decisions and utilizes as appropriate. 
• Presents information and ideas in an articulate and organized manner (written and oral).
• Analyzes information and contributes ideas in the decision-making process.
• Collaborates to enhance team efforts through personal contributions. Places team success above personal success.
• Communicates directly, honestly, and respectfully to gain cooperation and resolve conflicts with others.

Personal Leadership:

• Evaluates and plans the use of resources to obtain efficiencies wherever possible.
• Accepts responsibility for the consequences of personal actions.
• Acts in a manner consistent with company’s core values.
• Displays a positive attitude and willingness to make the necessary effort to accomplish goals.
• Demonstrates accountability for own work, personal and professional development.
• Recognizes and considers cultural differences in a respectful manner.
• Completes competency reviews when employees finish training and conducts performance reviews on hourly reports on an annual basis. Provides input and guidance on the development/goals of personnel through coaching and written feedback.

Achieves Business Results:

• Accomplishes assignments on time and contributes to continuously improve workflow and processes.
• Plans, organizes, and completes projects and functional work to accomplish goals and assignments.
• Accomplishes expectations and delivers goals and work timely and efficiently.
• Coaches and holds accountable individuals and teams to meet mutually agreed upon expectations.
• Displays a sense of urgency, available on call outside regular business hours.

Minimum Qualifications

• Technical/Operations background.
• JM Trade an asset.
• MS office suite and SAP working knowing.
• 10 years relevant maintenance experience in chemical or similar industry.
• Experience and knowledge of maintenance engineering methods.
• Financial acumen and Business administration.
• Budget tracking and management experience.
• Experience in development/validation of standards and procedures.
• Scheduling and Outage experience.
• Leadership and People management skills.
• Accountable for the development of the individuals within the department.
• Decisiveness can assess a situation and formulate a plan forward.
• Team player/Empathy.
• Effective communication skills on both strategic and operations levels.
• Possess a valid class 5 driver’s license.
• Report to work, Fit for Duty
• Physical:  Requires the ability to wear full and half face respirators.    Walking, sitting, climbing, lifting, balancing, kneeling, reaching, handling, fingering, talking, hearing, seeing. Requires visual acuity to distinguish colors.  
• Aptitudes:  must possess the ability to understand the meaning of words and their ideas, as well as instructions and their underlying principles.  Perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately and possess eye-hand coordination.  Must be able to read, write, and communicate in English. 
• Temperaments:  Must have the ability to accept responsibility, perform duties under stress, adapt to situations requiring preciseness and adapt to changing duties and responsibilities.  
• Clear Canadian criminal check

Other

If currently an employee of the Company, you must have current satisfactory work performance and in most cases, have been in your current role for 18 months.

Disclaimer: 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.