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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. Visit compassminerals.com (https://www.compassminerals.com/) for more information about the company and its products.
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.)
- Coordinates and manages equipment master data and the work order system.
- Organizes all equipment technical information for ease of accessibility in the CMMS, and for data protection in the archival system (PDM Vault).
- Create and maintain Equipment Parts Lists (EPL) for all equipment.
- Collaborate with Reliability Engineering on the development of operating context specific PM’s & PdM’s.
- Convert Work Requests to Work Orders, Create Work Orders and assure WO coding is accurate and the status is up-to-date.
- Identify all WO’s requiring short and long duration downtime.
- Manage the work order backlog to assure work progresses through the planning process in a timely manner, and in accordance with the PM system master schedule.
- Work Planning.
- Develop a sequenced set of work instructions for all WO’s where Planning can add value.
- Lists all required permits and identify any special safety work instructions.
- Identify all required parts, supplies, tools, and equipment, and provide specifications to assist purchasing in meeting expectations.
- Maintain from 3 to 5 weeks of ready backlog.
- Manage the WO feedback process to drive job plan continuous improvement in safety instructions, work instructions, and other identified maintenance resources required to execute the job.
- Generate any follow-up work orders identified in the WO feedback process including: condition based WO’s, and other related observations from the technicians in the field.
- Resource Management.
- Monitor, justify, and categorize maintenance stores inventory to assure parts remain consistent with equipment modifications. Submit Add-To-Inventory forms as necessary.
- Facilitate ease of part identification by creating accurate Equipment Parts Lists (EPL’s) for all equipment, and remove any obsolete parts from both the EPL and the MRO Warehouse.
- Coordinate with the warehouse to kit and stage identified parts and supplies.
- Requisition parts, supplies, and equipment to assure availability coincide with work schedules.
- Assist in the expedition of critical parts for planned work, and at critical times to support breakdown activities.
- Provide notification to supervision when repairable parts must be tagged and returned to the warehouse.
- Insures proper accounts are identified on all WO’s.
- Develop and maintain weekly, shutdown, and long-range schedules.
- Assure that weekly schedules comply with the PM and PdM master schedule.
- Coordinate maintenance schedules with production schedules to assure that equipment health and capacity safely supports long term production requirements.
- Conducts related planning meetings.
- Complete / Close work orders and capture pertinent information as needed.
- Turnaround Scheduling/Critical Path Management.
- Manage the short and long duration downtime ready backlog for the respective area of responsibility.
- Assure that all downtime required WO’s are fully planned and coordinated in preparation for turnaround events.
- Generate capital requests for downtime related WO’s.
- Identify all resources required for effective turnaround execution.
- Provide turnaround cost management including estimate vs. actual comparison.
- Organize all turnaround work in a Gantt Chart format outlining the work critical path and resource allocation requirements.
- Evaluate turnaround schedule duration to optimize downtime vs. resource costs decision making.
- Long Range Planning.
- Manage the Major Maintenance Forecast to outline equipment repair intervals, and identify future MOB capital requirements.
- Develop the scope of work for capital repairs and submit Capital Authorization Requests (CAR’s) in a timely manner.
- Make recommendations to project engineering for capital modifications.
- Assists maintenance management in developing and monitoring the expense budget.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Minimum Required 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.
Education and/or Experience:
- Journeyman license or equivalent experience in Electrical and/or Mechanical trades.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 7-10 years’ experience in electrical and/or mechanical trades.
- Maintenance supervisory of equivalent experience required.
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. 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. Learn more about equal employment opportunity laws at dol.gov (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters). July 2025
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