Maintenance Supervisor

Description 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 12 production and packaging facilities with more than 1,800 employees throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Visit  for more information about the company and its products.

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. Goderich is 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.

This position directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and equipment in the mine. This position has the responsibility to ensure safe work practices, quality standards, and procedures are followed as well as ensuring high productivity from this department. This position ensures effective maintenance scheduling and employee development.

• Directly supervise 10 unionized workers in the Maintenance Department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.
  
  Responsibilities include:
  
  training; planning, assigning, and directing work; ensure work is completed on a safe and efficient manner.

• Supervise, develop the skills and direct/delegate activities of the maintenance crew.

• Perform cross shift communication to relief supervisor in order to relay critical operation information

• Each tradesperson has a wide range of skills and experience, effective supervision is vital to the success of the maintenance plan, execution of critical repairs and ultimately the reliability of the site.

• Assesses ongoing maintenance projects and job orders and determines work priorities

• Ensures safe working conditions and safe work procedures are understood and followed by crew

• Communicates equipment and job order status to appropriate people and departments

• Understand, present and enforce policies regarding safe work practices, production methods, quality standards, and preventative maintenance.

• Conduct monthly safety meetings, weekly tool box talks, procedures and standards for work and safety.

• Conduct employee performance appraisals.

• Troubleshoot equipment problems throughout areas of responsibility, determine maintenance needs, schedule repairs and oversee progress of same.

• Have input into developing maintenance budget.

• Evaluate productivity and other performance measures of employees and recommend possible improvements to work processes.

• To foster an environment of continuous improvement, complete projects that will strengthen the business.

• Optimize the preventive maintenance program

• Work with operators and Supervisors to make equipment modifications and to schedule equipment downtime for PM’s.

• Audit the PM’s and repairs to ensure it meets maintenance standards and expectations holding the tradespeople responsible…