Maintenance Leader

Hexion; Lévis; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexion Canada is seeking a Maintenance Leader to coordinate and guide preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance across the plant. You will schedule shutdowns and manage maintenance contractors, inventory, and service contracts to optimize business performance on site.

Lead a safety-sensitive team; report fit for duty; contribute to an environmentally sound manufacturing culture; participate in safety committees and ensure compliance with corporate guidelines.

Qualifications

• Bilingual in French and English.
• Trade certification or equivalent in a trade is preferred.
• Related industry experience is preferred.
• Reading and writing, ability to coordinate activities.
• Basic computer skills.
• 10% travel.
• Fit for Duty; able to lift up to 55 pounds.
• Ability to wear respirator and work in variable conditions.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and schedule maintenance work ensuring safety and environmental compliance.
• Lead between operations and maintenance; oversee troubleshooting and repairs.
• Optimize maintenance productivity and prioritize work orders to meet site objectives.
• Minimize downtime by coordinating maintenance with production scheduling.
• Review and process work orders and quotations for parts and services.
• Ensure routine PM and inspections are executed as planned.

Skills

Bilingual (French & English)

Communication skills

Reading & writing

Safety awareness

Education

Trade certification

Tools

MS Office

Job description

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 coordinating and scheduling maintenance work, ensuring that maintenance and project work is carried out safely and in a safe environmentally compliant effective and efficient way. The Maintenance Leader is the primary liaison between operations and maintenance and reporting of work done.
• Involved with the development of new maintenance technicians, providing direction to contracted services and is the lead between the operations and maintenance for troubleshooting all mechanical equipment issues and completing repairs/replacements/upgrades of all mechanical equipment on the Site.
• Maximizing internal and external maintenance work forces productivity and work quality by eliminating potential delays and obstacles through proper planning and coordination of parts, machine time and manpower.
• Minimize equipment downtime through co-ordination of maintenance work with production scheduling. The associate is responsible for the maintenance scheduling activities for the site and responsible for the productivity, prioritization and completion of all work requests to ensure the site meets its performance objectives.
• Reviews work order notifications daily ensuring all fields are completed and information is accurate before processing notification into a work order.
• Processes work orders from conversion to work order from notification to planning, scheduling through to confirmation and equipment record updating. Processing includes obtaining and evaluating quotations for parts and service.
• Ensure routine PM and inspection tasks are executed as planned and recommend changes/upgrades as required to improve equipment reliability.
• Maintain the integrity of Hexion Canada Inc. required standards
• Monitors work order backlog to bring forward work orders for planning and scheduling based on priority and availability of other required trade groups.
• Schedule/assign personnel, orders equipment and ensures materials are available.
  • Participates in equipment failure root cause analysis
  • Coordinates and schedules shutdowns and maintenance upgrade projects.
  • Inspect, assemble/disassemble, troubleshoot, and repair all types of rotating equipment used on the site.
  • Troubleshoots mechanical system to include pumps, fans, blowers, gearboxes, etc. and investigates repair and rebuild parts requirements for all mechanical equipment
  • Assists in obtaining & evaluating quotations for parts and service and assists in ordering and obtaining services and parts for repairs and replacements.
• Carry out routine maintenance tasks safely and works in the field as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to communicate in French and English.
• Post-secondary certification or equivalent in a trade is preferred
• Related industry experience is preferred
• Reading and writing, ability to coordinate activities
• Basic computer skills
• 10% travel
• Fit for Duty
• Fitness Capable, lift requirement up to 55 pounds
• Physical: Able to wear a full or half-face respirator. Walking, driving, standing, lifting, sitting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing, balancing, at heights, stooping, kneeling, reaching, fingering, talking, hearing and seeing. Work in all weather conditions for field scoping and commissioning.
• 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 motor coordination.
• Temperaments: Must have the ability to accept responsibility, perform duties under stress, adapt to situations requiring preciseness, and adapt to changing duties and responsibilities. Must be able to adapt to situations involving the interpretation of feelings, ideas, or facts; be able to influence people in the opinions, attitudes, or judgments; and be able to generalize, evaluate, make decisions, and perform repetitive work.

Other

We are an Equal Opportunity, Affinitive Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, pregnancy, race, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or military status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

To be considered for this position candidates are required to submit an application for employment through our career site and, be at least 18 years of age. Any offer of employment will be conditioned upon successful completion of a drug test and background investigation, as well as authorization for the Company to conduct 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. A prior criminal record is not an automatic bar to employment, and the Company will conduct an individualized assessment and reassessment, consistent with applicable law, prior to making any final employment decision.