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.  

What You Will Do

Create and govern a unified maintenance strategy that maximizes asset availability, minimizes risk, and optimizes lifecycle value across Freeport Americas operations by defining the standards and decision frameworks that determine when assets are maintained, paused, degraded, refurbished, or replaced. In this role, you define and own the enterprise maintenance strategy framework for Freeport Americas, explicitly governing failure‑mode‑informed tradeoffs that are executable with available resources and continuously refined through operational feedback. You lead development of a centralized planning capability, standardizing planning methods, quality expectations, and role definitions across equipment types and maintenance scopes. As the Director of Maintenance Strategy & Planning, you design strategies that maximize asset efficiency and mechanical availability while accounting for workforce capacity, skills, supply chain readiness, operating practices, and startup constraints, determining optimal outage frequency, timing, and duration. You ensure maintenance strategies are explicitly aligned with capital planning, defining clear decision frameworks for extending asset life, refurbishing, or replacing equipment based on performance, risk, and lifecycle economics. The role translates strategy into reliable demand signals for materials, contractors, and services, with procurement responsibilities retained by Supply Chain. You accelerate the Reinventing Mining agenda by integrating maintenance strategy with next‑generation technologies and operational constraints. Establish and govern a technical maintenance knowledge system that preserves, replicates, and scales site‑level improvements into enterprise capability. Embed maintenance strategies through standardized planning and scheduling processes. Systematically capture and deploy insights from failures and effective interventions across all sites. Routinely engage cross‑functional leadership to ensure maintenance decisions support total business performance. Own and govern the enterprise maintenance work management process from identification through closeout. Establish standardized processes, decision rights, quality maintenance inputs, and performance metrics to drive consistent execution and continuous improvement across sites.

What You Bring To Freeport

• 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 constrained execution, and asset lifecycle management
• Proven ability to translate maintenance strategy into predictable resource and cost profiles
• Demonstrated aptitude connecting operational constraints to technology enabled solutions
• Expertise in CMMS (e.g., SAP PM), reliability methodologies, and maintenance data analytics
• Ability to lead through influence, not through positional authority

Preferred Qualifications

What We Offer You 

 Actual base pay is determined by experience, qualifications, skills and other job-related factors. This role is eligible for additional incentive compensation considerations based on company and individual performance.  Additionally, this position is currently eligible for annual long-term incentive consideration.  Long-term incentives are contingent upon authorized approval under the terms and conditions of the Company's plan and award agreements.  More details will be shared during the hiring process. 

• Affordable medical, dental and vision benefits  
• Company-paid life and disability insurance  
• 401(k) plan with employer contribution/match  
• Paid time off, paid sick time, holiday pay, parental leave  
• Tuition Assistance  
• Employee Assistance Program  
• Discounted insurance plans for auto, home and pet  
• Internal progression opportunities  
• Learn more about our competitive and comprehensive benefits package!  

What We Require

Freeport-McMoRan promotes a drug/alcohol-free work environment using mandatory pre-employment drug testing as allowed by applicable laws.  

Requires ability to perform work at extreme elevation levels.

Requires (domestic and international) travel up to 50% of the time.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

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