Director Engineering Execution Projects
Freeport-McMoRan · Phoenix, AZ
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Travel
- 25%
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Metals
- Posted
- 12 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level manufacturing role at Freeport-McMoRan (metals) in Phoenix, AZ. It is the perfect place if you enjoy the outdoors, love sports, concerts and other big city amenities or technology.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- Casting
- Day to day
- about 25% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Arizona: typical posted base $98k–$138k.
Median of the low and high ends of 10 live postings that list pay, out of 25 manufacturing engineer openings in Arizona, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 24 other live manufacturing postings in Arizona.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $98k–$138k, from 9 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Automation 40%
- Team leadership 36%
- Root cause 32%
- New product launch 28%
- Tooling 28%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 24%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Casting, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
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This plant: Freeport-McMoRan in Phoenix
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Full description from Freeport-McMoRanAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
What You Will Do
Accountable for the successful delivery of engineering services across the capital project portfolio, ensuring engineering scope, schedule, cost, quality, and resource
requirements
are fully integrated into project execution plans and budgets. Provides leadership, governance, and oversight to drive alignment between engineering activities and overall project objectives.
Establishes engineering execution strategies, performance metrics, reporting frameworks, and change management processes that support predictable and successful project outcomes. Partners closely with Project Directors, Project Managers, Engineering Managers, EPCM partners, and technical teams to ensure engineering deliverables are completed in accordance with approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements. Also oversees field engineering and commissioning support through project startup and final handover.
- ✓Provide strategic direction, leadership, and governance for engineering execution across assigned capital projects and portfolios, ensuring alignment with project objectives, stage-gate requirements, corporate standards, and business priorities.
- ✓Oversee the development and integration of engineering execution plans, staffing forecasts, budgets, schedules, deliverable registers, and key milestones to ensure alignment with overall project plans and performance forecasts.
- ✓Establish and maintain engineering performance management frameworks, including reporting systems, key performance indicators, productivity measures, progress tracking methodologies, and forecasting processes that provide clear visibility into engineering performance and project status.
- ✓Lead the implementation and governance of engineering change management processes, ensuring design changes, technical deviations, scope modifications, and engineering-driven impacts are properly assessed, documented, approved, and incorporated into project cost and schedule projections.
- ✓Partner with Engineering Managers to proactively identify project risks, constraints, and performance challenges, developing and executing mitigation and recovery strategies to safeguard engineering deliverables and critical project milestones.
- ✓Provide leadership and accountability for field engineering activities, technical issue resolution, design clarification processes, commissioning engineering support, startup readiness, operational handover, and the promotion of a strong safety culture.
- ✓Champion engineering standardization, the application of lessons learned, best practice adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project execution and performance across the capital project portfolio.
- ✓Foster effective collaboration and communication among project teams, operating sites, functional departments, EPCM partners, and external service providers to support timely decision-making, issue resolution, and project success.
- ✓Perform other duties as required.
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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.
What You Bring To Freeport
- •Bachelor's degree in Engineering, and fifteen (15) years of progressively responsible engineering, project engineering, or project execution experience in mining, minerals processing, industrial facilities, infrastructure, energy, or a related capital-intensive industry.
- •Demonstrated leadership experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams, Engineering Managers, and external engineering service providers.
- •Demonstrated experience delivering engineering scope on large, complex capital projects through feasibility, detailed design, construction, commissioning, and startup.
- •Experience working with EPC, EPCM, Owner’s Engineer, or hybrid project delivery models.
- •Strong knowledge of engineering management, integrated project planning, project controls, risk management, cost and schedule management, quality management, and change management.
- •Demonstrated ability to establish engineering execution strategies, performance metrics, progress measurement, forecasting, and executive reporting.
- •Strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, communication, and decision-making skills.
- •Advanced knowledge of engineering management and capital project delivery processes.
- •Strong understanding of multidisciplinary engineering design, interfaces, constructability, and systems integration.
- •Expertise in engineering execution planning, progress measurement, productivity analysis, forecasting, and reporting.
- •Comprehensive understanding of engineering chang