Director Maintenance Strategy & Planning

Why You Should Apply for This Job

At Freeport-McMoRan, we are committed to providing an employment package that recognizes excellence, encourages safe production and a culture supported by our core values. Here, you’ll find a collaborative environment where safety is a top priority, all opinions are valued, and people are empowered to grow in their career. Apply Today!

Where You Will Work

Our global headquarters is in Phoenix, Arizona. Several hundred employees support global operations in finance, human resources, information technology, planning and more from the main office, satellite offices or online. As a Hybrid employee, you’ll engage in virtual collaboration as well as attend in-person meetings at our Collaboration Hub in Phoenix or at one of our site locations. The Collaboration Hub provides an open, flexible workspace for individuals and teams to come together for various business needs. Amenities at the Hub include a working café, phone booths and meeting rooms with technology tools for virtual and in-person collaboration. In-person attendance may vary based on the position and department requirements.

Phoenix is the capital of the Grand Canyon State and enjoys mostly bright skies throughout the year. It is the perfect place if you enjoy the outdoors, love sports, concerts and other big city amenities or technology. There are great neighborhoods around Phoenix, with easy access to a major city, nature, the arts and many more amenities.

• •Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Maintenance, Reliability, Electrical, or Mining
• •15+ years progressive maintenance experience, including significant field‑based roles directly experiencing equipment condition, failure modes, manpower constraints, and production impacts
• •Strong technical credibility in fixed plant, and/or heavy mobile equipment. Along with a working understanding of how crushers, mills, conveyors, mobile fleets, power systems, and supporting infrastructure degrade or failures are repaired and are safely returned to service
• •Deep technical knowledge of maintenance and reliability engineering, including practical application of RCM, FMEA, RCFA, condition monitoring, and failure analysis, with explicit consideration of hazard identification and risk controls embedded in the maintenance tasks of fixed mining plant and heavy mobile equipment
• •Demonstrated experience designing and implementing maintenance strategies across multiple sites
• •Deep understanding of end to end maintenance work management processes, including work identification, prioritization, planning, scheduling, execution, closeout, and feedback loops
• •Proven ability to design, standardize, and govern maintenance processes at enterprise scale, including definition of roles, decision rights, standards, and deviation governance
• •Strong expertise in maintenance planning and scheduling systems, including job plan quality, labor estimating, materials readiness, kitting strategies, and schedule risk management
• •Demonstrated ability to establish closed loop learning mechanisms, ensuring failure insights, execution feedback, and performance data routinely drive updates to maintenance strategies and processes
• •Strong capability in leading maintenance process changes across decentralized organizations, balancing standardization adoption with local ownership
• •Ability to coach site leaders, planners, and engineers in maintenance process maturity, utilizing data, standards, and field credibility to drive alignment
• •Strong understanding of outage planning, system availability optimization, wear mechanisms, manpower constrai