Senior Engineer, Mechanical & Piping

We enrich life through the sustainable extraction and refinement of minerals to indispensable products and through our working environment, which is unique. Because it stands for everything that really matters in life: Trust, team spirit and meaningfulness for 11,000 employees at 50 locations on five continents. Welcome to K + S.

Reporting to the Manager, Engineering, the Senior Engineer, Mechanical & Piping is responsible for managing timely and fit-for-purpose discipline-specific engineering services to projects and programs by planning and mobilizing best value technical capability, while leading a small team of Mechanical and Piping Engineers. This position is expected to lead and provide strategies for the mechanical and piping disciplines and subsequently how it functions within KSPC Projects, Maintenance, and Production teams. The Senior Engineer, Mechanical & Piping supports FEL design and detailed design on equipment, mechanical and piping technical issues, complete design of capital projects, coordinate interfaces between internal technical interfaces and external technical bodies. The Senior Engineer, Mechanical & Piping will be responsible for driving forward sound and standardized design, construction, and maintenance practices of mechanical assets. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Engineering & Design Strategy - 30%

• Undertake engineering services delivery model options analysis.

• Implement engineering knowledge management practices in alignment with the strategy.

• Implement value engineering/improvement practices in alignment with strategy.

• Review and/or develop mechanical engineering drawings and documents in line with requirements relating to feasibility, standards, codes, and KSPC’s quality specifications. Work closely together with engineering & execution consultants, design partners and others.

• Evaluate new and existing technologies for their applicability to KSPC.

• Provide overall mechanical engineering discipline leadership with respect to specification development, plant standardization, correction of systemic technical issues and key decision making.

• Lead the mechanical engineering discipline within the Projects group ensuring suitable technical support is provided to stakeholders.

Engineering & Design (incl. FEL, FEED) Planning, Optimization and Oversight - 30%

• Deliver efficient and effective engineering services considering all aspects of constructability, operability, and maintenance.

• Gather the discipline-specific technical requirements from Operations stakeholders.

• Define, quantify, and create scope definition for the discipline-specific engineering deliverables of each project.

• Oversee all engineering work within their discipline.

• Enable selection of the best engineering alternatives for work within the set specifications, standards, and regulatory requirements.

• Support evaluation of business cases, particularly technical and design aspects.

• Support engineering-related requests for information.

• Implement the engineering quality plan for their discipline.

• Oversee technical inputs into pre-commissioning, commissioning, and handover plans.

• Review outcomes from quality control (QC) performed by Ops project engineering to confirm desired outcomes of Projects Department builds/installs.

Vendor & Contractor Management - 10%

• Support coordination of work with engineering & project execution consultants, design partners and other contractors.

Mechanical & Piping Team Leadership - 30%

• Lead the engineering team responsible for mechanical & piping on Projects.

• Develop and retain people with the right skills and capabilities to effectively deliver engineering services.

• Ensure team has required knowledge, training, and alignment to successfully implement the specifications, standards and applicable regulations related to their discipline.

• Administrate KSPC’s employee performance management program for direct reports.

• Contract Employee and Secondee Management.

• Coordination of tasks for direct reports; accountable for task completion.

• Enforcement of stage gate control procedures, documents, workflows, work instructions.

• Liaise with Procurement, Project Management, Maintenance, and Production teams.

• Continuous improvement initiatives for Mechanical and Piping disciplines.

• Communicate project status and progress.

• Ensures that K+S Potash Canada is at all times in compliance with Safety, Health and Environmental regulatory and internal laws and policies.

• Sets a high personal safety standard for themselves, direct reports, and fellow colleagues.

• Ensure all regulatory requirements are met for projects.

We enrich your life

By living our common K+S values across all our locations in the world: We are optimistic about our future, collaborative in building it, and with our entrepreneurial spirit, we aim to dig deeper and reach higher. We remain agile in an ever-changing world. We are innovative, turning obstacles into opportunities – and we do it all in ways that are safe and sustainable, protecting future generations.

We are committed to being a company where every employee can contribute, grow and thrive, and where we reflect the diverse communities in which we live and work. We are working toward a truly inclusive environment, because we know that the amazing array of differences in our backgrounds, competencies, experiences, race, gender, age, beliefs, sexual orientation, identity and their intersections is key to the longevity, sustainability and growth of our organization.

In a career with K+S Potash Canada (KSPC), you can look forward to:

Great Shift Schedule for Work/Life Balance
With a 5-week shift schedule rotation it means having 3/5 weekends off and working less nights compared to other conventional shift schedules.

Challenge and Growth

Plant expansions create commissioning opportunities for individuals who like to be challenged. We support your growth potential (support of professional development) and recognition of performance.

Valuable Compensation

Our total target compensation is competitive and benchmarked to the market. We have a Pay for Performance philosophy that includes two components, fixed (base) pay and short term incentive (bonus) that rewards employees for their contributions towards corporate, team and individual successes.

Supporting Benefits

A comprehensive, employer paid, benefits program which includes Life, Disability, Health and Dental as well as competitive Retirement benefits, Employee and Family Assistance Program PLUS great extras such as, paid work time to help out in your Community (volunteer with a sports team or a charity of your choice) and company money to allocate to your favorite charity! A Health Spending Account for extras, like more expensive glasses, and the Wellness Account covers recreational items, like your park camping fees, hunting or fishing license, and can help pay for your gym membership.

Good People and Great Culture

Have the opportunity to be part of a team committed to building a new and diverse culture. At KSPC we are growing our operations, delivering exciting new opportunities, and investing heavily in the communities where we live and work.

Your Profile

Our company values and recognizes the diversity of the workforce and encourages individuals with the equivalent combination of education and work experience. The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.

• Minimum 10 years experience in a heavy industrial setting, potash experience preferred.

• Minimum 5 years experience project management experience on large multi-year projects.

• Strong team leadership skills including demonstrated facilitation skills.

• P. Eng designation required.

• Proven ability to lead the engineering discipline and manage team of engineers to meet standards and quality requirements.

• Demonstrated proficiency in fostering business-focused collaboration, aligning cross-functional teams and driving projects to successful completion.

Employment is subject to successfully completing KSPC’s pre-employment checks which may include criminal record check, education verification, functional fitness evaluation and drug & alcohol testing.

To ensure consideration for this role, please apply by November 12, 2024.