Pros
Great quality products with a multinational experience available, if winter snows significantly as in last 2 years cannot help but make money enabling above average bonuses. Moving to a new building in 2016 year end for corporate office with an open floor plan concept, work density will increase by 200 percent but you will be able to interact with majority of employees and managers. It will be new, bright, inviting and loud. A large percentage of employees that were there when the company was purchased in 2009 have been turned over resulting in many new opportunities. Pay is very good overall.
Cons
Ok lets face it, this company either injects water into the ground to take salt out of the ground heat it and make into consumer products or else blows the hell out of a wall of salt underground and scoops it up for use when it snows. The goal is to minimize mistakes in this process. It requires a large amount of capital and so competition is not too great. Sometimes they pump salt water into a field and let the sun dry it. By definition this is not the most exciting of industries and in order to compete you need great cost control and great selling price decisions and minimal errors. It is a transportation, distribution, labor and weather. They need people to organize and oversee consultant ideas at corporate to be woven into a seamless shapeshifting plan for implementation and presentations. If you are good at this you should do fine for most jobs. When everything goes in a positive direction you can give the impression you can effect these things and you can do very well. But when the weather turns negative or energy and distribution charges surge (they are at multiyear lows right now) the seamless plan begins leaking and you need a new stream of seamless plans, that can be tiring. Management is prone to change plans quickly, if it does not snow and profits fall US employees will suffer as in 2014 when no raises given for American employees. Expect a few plant closures if a couple of years with no snow. Since company was purchased by German company K+S and CEO Christian Herrmann is their former liaison for investor relations from Germany, he tends to have a short term focus and German employees have outsized voice on perceived performance of employees within corporate. Also CEO tends to be like a distracted dog chasing a bone with ideas consultants recommend.