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Maintenance Planner\nSavannah, GA\nWe are looking for a Maintenance Planner to join our Performance Chemicals team in Savannah, GA.\nCome create chemistry with us!\nBASF’s Catalysts division is the global market leader in catalyst technologies. The division develops and produces mobile emissions catalysts as well as process catalysts and offers precious metals trading, recycling and related products and services.\nAs a Maintenance Planner, you will plan, schedule, estimate, and coordinate routine, corrective, preventive, construction, and outage maintenance so work is safe, executable, cost-effective, and aligned with production needs. Create and maintain SAP job plans, work orders, and BOM updates; generates purchase requisitions; coordinates planned maintenance with Maintenance Supervision and Operations. You will manage the maintenance work-order planning, scheduling, materials and services, SAP/CMMS information, contractor coordination, equipment master data, and continuous improvement to reduce downtime and improve reliability.\nAs a Maintenance Planner, you create chemistry by...\nDeveloping detailed SAP job plans and field-execution packages, including scope, work sequence, labor crafts, estimated hours, materials, equipment, special tools, services, permits, isolations, and safety requirements.\nReviewing and prioritizing maintenance backlogs and unplanned work, coordinating maintenance and production schedules, grouping related work, managing SAP status codes and planned start and finish dates, and optimizing crew utilization and customer service.\nConducting job walk-downs with Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering to validate work scope, identify constraints, confirm parts and support requirements, and facilitate material pre-kitting.\nMaintaining work orders, work history, actual costs, completed work documentation, job-plan libraries, equipment Bills of Materials (BOMs), asset records, and lessons learned, while improving job plans based on execution feedback.\nCoordinating vendor and contractor activities by defining scopes of work, obtaining quotations, managing schedules, and supporting compliance with approved procurement, safety, and quality requirements.\nPlanning major turnarounds in partnership with Production and Maintenance leadership, including developing schedules, manpower plans, resource assignments, and parts-kitting requirements, while responding to schedule breakers, shutdowns, start-ups, and other non-routine work.\nLeading and supporting planning reviews with Maintenance Supervision, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS), Logistics, Quality, contractors, and vendors to align priorities and resolve execution issues.\nIncorporating Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) policies, Responsible Care expectations, safe-work permits, isolations, pre-task risk assessments, craft qualifications, and site Management of Change (MOC) requirements into maintenance planning activities.\nIf you...\nHold an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Maintenance Technology, Industrial Maintenance, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Engineering, Reliability, or a related technical discipline; or bring at least four years of industrial maintenance planning experience within a manufacturing, chemical, refining, or industrial facility in lieu of a degree.\nDemonstrate proficiency with SAP or a similar Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), as well as Microsoft Office, including Excel and Word; experience with Microsoft Project or Primavera is preferred.\nPossess strong mechanical knowledge, including an understanding of rotating equipment and preventive maintenance practices.\nBring experience in maintenance planning, estimating, procurement, material expediting, inventory management, contractor and vendor coordination, parts kitting, and outage execution.\nDemonstrate the ability to effectively manage urgent, unexpected, and non-routine work, including schedule breakers, shutdowns, and start-ups.\nOffer strong organizational and work management skills, attention to detail, a commitment to quality, and effective written and verbal communication skills.\nCreate your own chemistry with you@BASF\nAt BASF, you will have the chance to do meaningful work towards building a more sustainable future. In addition to competitive compensation and benefits, BASF provides you with access to a wide range of elements to help you be your best. It’s what we call you@BASF. We are committed to providing benefits, programs, and opportunities that support our employees’ overall well-being, personal growth, and a safe, collaborative, and inclusive work environment.\nJust some of the many benefits we offer include:\nFlexible work arrangements whenever possible\nHighly competitive retirement savings plan with company match and investment options\nWell-being programs that include comprehensive mental health support for you and your household family members\nFamily forming benefits (fertility, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, maternity/parental leave, and more)\nBack-up child and elder care with discount programs for families of all ages and stages\nMentoring and career development opportunities that allow you to share, learn, and thrive\nMatching gifts program that allows you to deepen the impact of your contributions to qualified charities.\nEmployee crisis support for when the unexpected happens\nAccess to our BASF wine cellar, employee discounts, and much more!\nAbout us\nAs one of the largest chemical companies in North America we have been finding solutions for your everyday needs and addressing the most complex economic, environmental, and sustainability challenges for more than 150 years!\nAt BASF we empower our employees with the tools, guidance and opportunities they need to advance and succeed in work and life. Giving you the support you need to be your best and fulfill your personal ambitions is what helps us create chemistry. After all, our success is linked to yours. Whatever path you envision, BASF is a great place to build a rewarding, successful career.\nBelong to Something Bigger. #belongatBASF\nPrivacy statement\nBASF takes security & data privacy very seriously. We will never request financial information of any kind via email, private text message or direct message on any social medial platform or job board. Furthermore, we will never send a candidate a check for equipment or request any type of payment during the job application process. If you have experienced any of the above, please contact  to report fraud.\nEqual employment opportunities\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, citizenship, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, disability status, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nApplicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7040,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Parental leave","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Advanced Materials","Crop Protection","Chemical Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-16T23:28:39Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/basf-maintenance-planner","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/basf-maintenance-planner.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T04:25:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6578,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":96193},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=96193"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbasf-maintenance-planner"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbasf-maintenance-planner"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbasf-maintenance-planner"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/basf-maintenance-planner\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbasf-maintenance-planner"}]}