Compass Minerals Hiring for Project Process Engineer Assistant at Amherst, NS Full Time

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At Compass Minerals, we harvest, mine and produce essential minerals that deal with nature’s challenges, including – but not limited to – highway deicing salt for the winter months, water softening salt and plant nutrition that improves the quality and yield of crops. We transform Earth’s resources that ultimately help keep people safe, feed the world and enrich lives, every day.

With our company headquarters in Overland Park, KS, Compass Minerals operates 15 production and packaging facilities with more than 2,000 employees throughout the U.S., Canada, Brazil and the U.K. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone’s voice matters. We believe in work that creates value for all stakeholders, encourages collaboration at all levels and focuses on a high-performance environment where employees are challenged to be their best.

We are currently seeking to fill a temporary Project Process Engineer Assistant position, that will be required to assist the head Engineer in a capital project that will upgrade the plant capacity by 15%. This is a 6-8 month temporary position, located in Amherst, NS.

Amherst is a community of 10,000 situated on the Nova Scotia/New Brunswick border, about two hours from Halifax, NS and less than an hour’s drive from Moncton, NB. The plant employs 50 and has an annual capacity of 127,000 tons of food grade and water-softening salt serving customers throughout the Maritimes, Quebec and the Eastern United States.

Summary: The person in this position is primarily responsible in assisting the Project and Process Engineer in their duties at the Amherst Plant. All of these duties will be as assigned by the Senior Engineer.

Essential Job Functions: Include but are not limited to the following:

(Management reserves the right to add or modify the duties and responsibilities at any time.)

Project engineering and management.

Manage small to medium capital projects from development to implementation.

Develop strategies to implement equipment reliability through Reliable Asset Management (RAM) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM).

Manage Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP) Activities

Demonstrate strong planning skills in relation to new projects

Developing Checklists, single point lessons, standard operating procedures for commissioning and startup of equipment

Develop equipment parts list and preventive and predictive maintenance schedules of project equipment basing on OEM recommendations

Maintain/Update Capital Expenditure Tracking Spreadsheets for monthly reporting purposes.

Ability to develop relationships with Maintenance, Boiler Evaporator and Operations employees and involves those individuals in project planning and communication.

Qualifications

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. The years of experience cited are all preferred, and may include experience as a student engineer.

Education and/or Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.

Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, AutoCad

1-2 years’ experience in manufacturing.

Preferred:
Project management involving cross functional teams.

Experience leading equipment/process reliability programs.

Experience in continuous improvement initiatives.

P. Eng Certification

Previous experience in food processing or high speed packaging facility.

Previous experience in data analysis/management.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Compass Minerals is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Compass Minerals is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact 913-344-9200 or [email protected].

Primary Location: CA-CA-Amherst

Work Locations: Amherst, NS CAN 327 Smith Road Amherst B4H 3Y4

Job: Engineering

Organization: Salt

Schedule: Temporary

Shift: Standard

Job Type: Full-time

Day Job

Job Posting: Nov 8, 2021, 10:46:27 PM