Senior Mine Engineer; Underground Soft Rock

Senior Mine Engineer (Underground Soft Rock)

Job Category :
Engineering

Requisition Number : SENIO

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• Posted :
  May 11, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

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Explore the potential of being part of something Clearly Essential!

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.  for more information about the company and its products.

We are currently hiring a Senior Mine Engineer to join the team at our underground salt mine in Goderich, Ontario. This is no a fly in/fly out location.

Compass Minerals’ Goderich Salt Mine, located 1,800 feet under Lake Huron, is the largest underground salt mine in the world. The mine is as deep as the CN Tower in Toronto is tall. The rock salt produced at the mine is used to keep citizens in North America safe as they travel through winter snow and ice. The salt is shipped to hundreds of communities around the Great Lakes and along the St.

Lawrence Seaway. Some of the salt is trucked to the Compass Minerals plant less than 4 kilometers away, to be packaged for distribution and sale at retailers in North America. The salt is also sold in bulk to manufacturers that make plastics, detergents, disinfectants and other important products. Goderichis named Canada’s Prettiest Town and is best known for its stunning sunsets.

Goderich is a lakeside community of 8,000 people located approximately 1.5 hours from London and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.

How will you contribute to the team?

This position functions within a team of other professionals, and reports directly to the Chief Mine Engineer, with a dual report to the Mine Operations Superintendent. The Sr. Mine Engineer will work closely with the Engineering, Production, and Maintenance Departments to support mine projects and improvement initiatives. The Sr. Mine Engineer will actively participate in the mine continuous improvement process.

• Work closely with Chief Engineer and Mine Technicians to develop and update mine plans, both long-term and short-term.
• Work closely with Chief Engineer, Production Department, and Mine Technicians to conduct mine surveys and ensure working points are kept up to date in development areas.
• Work closely with Chief Engineer and Mine Technician to conduct mine ventilation surveys and optimize the ventilation system.
• Work closely with the Rock Mechanics engineer and Rock Mechanics Technician to maintain and optimize ground control.
• Work with Production Department to develop budgetary models and maintain production cost forecasts.
• Assume a key role in mine risk management process and develop risk control mitigation plans and projects.

Mine Process Improvement

• Assume a key role in the mine Continuous Improvement Process.
• Conduct time studies, process audits, and benchmarking exercises to identify areas of opportunity.
• Work closely with Mine Production department to investigate opportunities to improve all aspects of the mining process and to reduce mining cost.
• Works closely with engineering, maintenance, and production departments to optimize the material handling process, from face to surface storage domes.
• Investigate and optimize drilling and blasting techniques to improve performance and reduce fines.
• Investigate new mining methods, mine plans, mine processes, and mining equipment that might improve mining efficiency and cost.

Project Management

• Prepares and submits capital appropriation requests, including return calculations.
• Implements projects and actively manages to ensure project schedule and budget commitments are met and project delivers agreed to benefits and objectives.
• Supports Engineering Manager in preparing…