Miners Helper

Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) is a leading global provider of essential minerals focused on safely delivering where and when it matters to help solve nature’s challenges for customers and communities. The company’s salt products help keep roadways safe during winter weather and are used in numerous other consumer, industrial, chemical and agricultural applications. Its plant nutrition products help improve the quality and yield of crops while supporting sustainable agriculture.

Compass Minerals operates 11 production and packaging facilities with more than 1,800 employees throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

The basic function of this role is to operate industrial equipment used to produce drill, blast, cut and haul salt safely in an underground environment.

• Follow Company and site policies and procedures
• Perform work area and equipment inspections
• Perform scaling activities
• Operate heavy equipment: service vehicles, 60‑ton dump trucks, powder rigs, face drill, floor drill, and personnel carriers
• Handle blasting materials (must obtain a blasting license through State Police)
• Work rotating shifts
• Other duties as required

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Experience operating heavy/farm equipment is a plus

Proficient in Microsoft Applications; ability to learn new software programs.

• Problem Solving – identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; works well in group problem‑solving situations.
• Judgment – displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in decision‑making process; makes timely decisions.
• Safety and Security – observes and promotes safety; reports potentially unsafe conditions; uses equipment and materials properly.
• Dependability – follows instructions, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments; commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

Ability to calculate figures and amounts, percentages, area, circumference, and volume; ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands/fingers (repetitive motion), walk, stand, bend, squat, kneel, twist, crawl, lift (10‑50 lbs), reach, communicate, and balance. Must be able to physically access all areas of underground mine; must be able to wear hard hat, steel‑toe boots, safety glasses, safety cap and lamp, respirator, electrical arc flash and be able to work in high reach areas.

Employee occasionally sits and operates heavy machinery.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, dust, working at heights/high altitudes and extreme heat. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock; explosives and vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. Employee must be able to work shift rotation, wear full body harness when applicable, walk on uneven ground and perform repetitive motion.

Compass Minerals is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are firmly committed to making all employment‑related decisions without regard to race, ancestry, ethnicity, color, religious creed or belief, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, and pregnancy and breastfeeding), age, military or veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by law.

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